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by Marguerite Yourcenar

$75 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957. First Edition. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 151. Black quarter cloth over paper backed boards, fine in a dust jacket with some wear to the extremities, very good. Item #1384 Set during the Baltic civil wars of 1919-1920, the novel follows a Prussian officer who murders the woman who loves him because he is in love with her brother, an act he

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