Marguerite Yourcenar. First American edition, first printing. New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1954. Both unclipped dust jacket and hardcover are in Very Good+ condition. Other than former owner's signature on flyleaf, no markings or writing found in the book, 313 pp. Translated from French by Grace Frick. Scarce and very collectible edition. From the estate of Jack Lockhart, New York.
The award-winning work by the author was published first in France in 1951. A brilliant psychological novel, winner of the Prix Academe in France, which is also a meditation on history.
“Memoirs of Hadrian” is a philosophical and poetic historical novel written by Marguerite Yourcenar. First published in French in 1951 and translated into English in 1954, it is a fictional autobiography of the Roman Emperor Hadrian (76–138 AD), written in the form of a long letter to his successor and adopted grandson, Marcus Aurelius.
