Author: HOMER; ANDREW, S. O. (TRANSLATOR)
Title: The Odyssey of Homer, in the S.O. Andrew Translation (Everyman's Library #454)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1953. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. First Everyman's Library edition in this translation. An Everyman's Library edition of Homer's classic epic poem, written c.1190s-1180s B.C. The original Greek has been translated into English in a modern translation by S. O. Andrew, who dispenses with earlier blank verse translations and attempts to present the work in a form which corresponds to the original Homeric hexameter (per Donald Armstrong Ross, p.250). With an introduction by John Warrington. Entry 454 in Everyman's Library Poetry & Drama series. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full rose cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling and interlocked 'EL' at tail of spine; orange topstain. In red-orange dust jacket with 'Everyman's Library' surrounded by scrollwork to front panel. --- A generally well-preserved copy: bright, tightly-bound and clean, though with prior owner's inked info. to front free endpaper & mild cover corner bump. Fair-only jacket with 8 cm. diagonal tear to front panel, other small chips & tears and mild age-toning, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xviii, 309, 8 (ads) pages. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Poetry >>Everyman's Library Editions
Title: The Odyssey of Homer, in the S.O. Andrew Translation (Everyman's Library #454)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1953. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. First Everyman's Library edition in this translation. An Everyman's Library edition of Homer's classic epic poem, written c.1190s-1180s B.C. The original Greek has been translated into English in a modern translation by S. O. Andrew, who dispenses with earlier blank verse translations and attempts to present the work in a form which corresponds to the original Homeric hexameter (per Donald Armstrong Ross, p.250). With an introduction by John Warrington. Entry 454 in Everyman's Library Poetry & Drama series. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full rose cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling and interlocked 'EL' at tail of spine; orange topstain. In red-orange dust jacket with 'Everyman's Library' surrounded by scrollwork to front panel. --- A generally well-preserved copy: bright, tightly-bound and clean, though with prior owner's inked info. to front free endpaper & mild cover corner bump. Fair-only jacket with 8 cm. diagonal tear to front panel, other small chips & tears and mild age-toning, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xviii, 309, 8 (ads) pages. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Poetry >>Everyman's Library Editions
Price: US$ 18.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 88786
- Book number: 88786