The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (Bernard Knox's copy)
de NUSSBAUM, MARTHA C
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Spine cocked, else very good. Covers lightly worn at extremities. Binding tight, text bright. Lacking dust jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0521257689
- ISBN 13
- 9780521257688
- Librería
-
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine cocked, else very good. Covers lightly worn at extremities. Binding tight, text bright. Lacking dust jacket.. 8vo. 6.125 x 9.125 in. xvii, 544 pp. Publisher's rust brown boards, titled in gilt on spine. From the library of noteworthy English classicist Bernard Knox, the first director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, with his ownership signature in ink to front flyleaf and with his occasional pencil marginalia throughout. Laid in are two folded pages of Knox's stationary, with his handwritten intelligent and endearing notes to author MARTHA NUSSBAUM concerning the review he has written for her book; the verso of each sheet is typewritten and concerns Aeschylus. This first hardcover trade edition somewhat uncommon.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Irving Book Company (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1422
- Título
- The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (Bernard Knox's copy)
- Autor
- NUSSBAUM, MARTHA C
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Spine cocked, else very good. Covers lightly worn at extremities. Binding tight, text bright. Lacking dust jacket.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0521257689
- ISBN 13
- 9780521257688
- Editorial
- Cambridge University Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Cambridge
- Fecha de publicación
- 1986
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Irving Book Company
Miembro de Biblio desde 2021
Asheville, North Carolina
Sobre Irving Book Company
Classical, Catholic, Southern, Photographic, Poetic, Scholarly, and early Modern Library Editions, &c.
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- First Edition
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- Marginalia
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