The Odyssey of Homer ("The Harvard Classics" series)
de HOMER; ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Librería
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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New York: P. F. Collier & Son. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1909. Hardcover. A deluxe edition of the classic epic poem, written c.1190s-1180s B.C. Translated from the Greek by S. H. Butcher and A. Lang. With illustrations, notes and tissue-guarded sepia frontis image of the Apotheosis of Homer, and with two additional tissue-guarded reproductions of paintings on Grecian vases. One from a rather scarce version of the series, "The Harvard Classics" as published by P. F. Collier, edited by Charles W. Eliot. --- In dark red buckram cloth-covered boards with titling and Harvard crest, and Charles Eliot's facsimile signature in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling. TEG (top edge gilt), other edges deckled and with dark red ribbed endpapers. Lacks a dust jacket. --- A well-preserved copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked, though with some discoloration to front endpapers, back cover corner and mild edgewear.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (4), 347 pages .
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- Librería
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 86527
- Título
- The Odyssey of Homer ("The Harvard Classics" series)
- Autor
- HOMER; ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Editorial
- P. F. Collier & Son
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1909
- Catálogos del vendedor
- >>Poetry;
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Bluebird Books
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