The Odyssey
by Homer; Mars, W.T. (illus)
First Edition Thus
Price: $45.00
- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 3651
- Format: Full Leather
- Edition: First Edition Thus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: The Franklin Library
- Place: Franklin Center, PA
- Date published: 1979
Book Description
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1979. First Edition Thus. Full Leather. Minor shelf wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. Navy leather boards, three raised bands, gilt lettering and decorative elements, lavendar silk endpages, grey silk ribbon bound in, aeg. 8vo. 502pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Translated to English, in contemporary verse, by Robert Fitzgerald. The 11,300 line poem tells the story of King of Ithaca, Odysseus. Second of the two reknowned epic poems, following The Iliad. A very handsome volume.
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