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PRUS Boleslaw - Pharaoh (3 volumes) / FIRST EDITION (1897)

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The writer, who deals primarily with current social issues in his works, in Pharaoh reached for the model of the historical novel, trying to interpret the meaning of historical changes. The title character of the work, Pharaoh Ramses XIII, young, ambitious and sensitive to human injustice, wants to reform the state, including by limiting the power of the Egyptian priests. For him, Egypt is a building whose walls are made up of people, and the pharaoh - only the architect of the whole. Thus, he becomes an enemy of Herhor and other priests, who by all means try to defend their position and property. Alone in the struggle, he gradually realizes that in political games people are not always guided by the idea of justice....

EDITION I

Published by Gebethner & Wolff, Warsaw, 1897

Format: 185 x 130 mm, 380, 475, 387s.

Decorated period cloth binding with gilt lettering.

Abrasions to edges of covers, blocks slightly bent, two pages in volume I loose, with folded corners. Period notes in pencil, subtle signature (most likely of the first owner) in fountain pen. Sticker of bookbinder A Getritz from Lvov on facing pages, stamp of book collector D. Bierniak on the front pasteboard of volume I, on the title pages the stamp of Gubrynowicz and Schmidt in Lviv - bookstore and composition of notes.




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