Euripides; Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, tr
The Alcestis of Euripides
New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 91p. INSCRIBED BY BOTH TRANSLATORS. A hardcover book in very good condition with an acceptable dustjacket. Spine lightly tanned; endpapers more deeply tanned. Very thin, light stain on side of front cover. Otherwise, text clean and binding tiht. The jacket is lightly chipped at the corners and at the ends of the spine. Light dampstain on side of front panel. The spine is deeply tanned and is almost completely split along the back edge. However, the jacket is protected in a mylar cover. This copy is inscribed and signed by both Fitts and Fitzgerald in the front free endpaper to Allen Bernard Sly, the composer of the music for this version of the play: "For Allen Sly / Whose music encourages us to believe in this poem." This English translation was the first of many renowned collaborations between Fitts and Fitzgerald. Good .
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USD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 138.25 | CHF 137]