SALAMMBO. Translated from the French of GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, With an Introduction by BEN RAY REDMAN,
Illustrated & Decorated by MAHLON BLAINE, The John Day Co., New York, 1927.
 
Historical Fiction Novel
Vintage from the 1920s
 
Salammbô is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert. It is set in Carthage immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt. Flaubert's principal source was Book I of the Histories, written by the Greek historian Polybius.
 
Brown cover with gilt, black and brown cover art, and brown and black highly decorated endpapers. Secure binding with clean pages, a very light top spine shift, top corner tip cover bump, and some inner binding cracks (otherwise good). About 9-1/2 x 6-1/2 with 338 pages. Illustrated.