COUPERUS, Louis (novel); MARTENS, Frederick H. (translation); NADEJEN, Theodore (illustrations)

Arrogance: The Conquests of Xerxes

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1930. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.25cm); black cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; decorative endpapers; dustjacket; [vi],[2],3-314pp, with color pictorial frontispiece of Xerxes, and black & white illustrations and vignettes throughout. Slight forward lean, touch of dust-soil to topstain and spine; contemporary owner's ink name and date (1932) to upper front endpaper and on p.3; Very Good and sound. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.00), edgeworn, spine-sunned, and lightly dust-soiled, with several tiny nicks, tears, and attendant creases, and faint foxing on verso; Very Good or better.

Fictionalized biography of ancient Persian king Xerxes I by noted Dutch novelist and poet Couperus (1863-1923). Originally published in 1919 under the title Xerxes of de hoogmoed. 88744.

Price: $125.00

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