translated note shaw (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition Thus. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1944. Sixth (6th) Printing of the Popular Edition. This prose translation by T. E. Shaw, a pseudonym adopted by T. E. Lawrence, was first published in a limited edition in the U.K. in 1932 by Emery Walker et al, and in its first trade edition by Oxford U. P. in September, 1932. Then this "popular edition" was first printed in 1934. The popular edition is slightly shorter than the original trade edition. Near Fine condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, lightly tanned, tight, straight and square with brown topstain, deckled fore-edges and no markings of any kind other than about 12 pages with ink marks. The Binding is full tan cloth, very few color variances, with a circular black design of Odysseus and the Harpies on the front board, black title, etc., to the spine, unmarked map endpapers showing the wanderings of Odysseus, mildly bumped corners., and wear at the head of the spine. No Jacket. See the accompanying photos. [v], 327 pages. 5 3/4" x 9". A prose translation of The Odyssey of Homer with a Translator's Note by Lawrence and an Introduction by John Finley.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Partly faded maroon boards and faded spine, the latter, lettered in gilt, with a 1 cm x 3 mm black smudge. Internally foxing to front endpapers, colour frontis and title page only.