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AESCHYLUS, SOPOCLES, EURIPIDES, ARISTOPHANES (AUTHORS); OATES, WHITNEY J.; O'NEILL JR., EUGENE (EDITORS) - Seven Famous Greek Plays (Modern Library #158. 2)

Title: Seven Famous Greek Plays (Modern Library #158. 2)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1952]. Hardcover. A selection of seven notable plays from ancient Greece. Includes Agamemnon and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus; Oedipus the King and Antigone by Sophocles; Medea and Alcestis by Euripides and The Frogs by Aristophanes. Edited, with introductions and notes by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. Volume wrapped in grey & tan jacket variant. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 365 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1952 (though 1950 date appears in book). ML #158.2. --- A well-preserved copy: clean, tightly-bound and with unmarked interior but with a little age-toning to leaves & prior owner's inked name to front free endpaper. Price-clipped dust jacket with a darkened spine, a few small tears and chafing to edges, otherwise intact and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xxvi, 446, (6, ads) pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

Keywords: >>Modern Library Editions >>Drama/Theatre; Movies/Tv >>Greek & Roman Classics

Price: US$ 15.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 87207