Author: BRYHER (ANNIE WINIFRED ELLERMAN)
Title: The Coin of Carthage
Description: London, Collins. 1964, First UK Edition?. Hardcover. Book, Names inside front cover; dustwrapper has several creases and small tears, and small piece missing from back. Novel about two Greek traders in the Second Punic War. According to Wikipedia, the author "was a major figure of the international set in Paris in the 1920s, using her fortune to help many struggling writers. With her lesbian lover Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) and Scottish writer Kenneth Macpherson, she launched the film magazine Close Up, which introduced Sergei Eisenstein's work to British viewers. From her home in Switzerland, she helped to evacuate Jews from Hitler's Germany, and then became a popular historical novelist.". Very Good/Good.

Keywords: Historical Novel Fiction Ancient Greece Rome Second Punic War Modern Fiction


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