Books by Homer

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. (no date). Translated by Alexander Pope. Introduction by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley. Book is poor. Binding is loose and leather is detached from spine. Rubbing and wear to corners. Gilt and decorated cover in good shape. Tissue guard present over title page. 337 pages.. F. Hardcover. ... more information

University of California Press,. 1990.. Hardcover. size: 7.5"x11.5", 12 illus, 526pp. Fine / lightly soiled & torn dust jacket. ... more information

NY: Modern Library, no date (circa 1929-30). First edition, early printing. Bookplate to front fixed endpaper, else fine in moderately edgeworn jacket. . Crimson "balloon" cloth over flexible card, 6.5 x 4.25 inches; xxiv, 383 pp. No statement of edition, but spine design is Toledano's balloon cloth #5 (grapevine at bottom of spine) which was used only in 1929-30. In correct jacket with list of 175 Modern Library titles on inside. This is #167. First printing of this title in the Modern Libr... more information

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1978. Collectors Edition. leather_bound. Fine. John Flaxman. Black full leather over bds. with gilt decoration and lettering, a.e.g. with blur moire endpapers. In the English Verse translation of Alexander Pope and illustratred with the classical designs of John Flaxman. ... more information

New York: Heritage Press. (1942). Quarto. The translation of Pope. Illustrated with the classical designs of John Flaxman. Loose at the inner hinges with some fading to the spine, else a very good copy. Text pages and plates are very clean and tight. From the Library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn. Signed by Bernarda Bryson Shahn in pencil on the front free endpaper, with five index cards with manuscript notes laid in. . ... more information

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press Bound in black full leather with raised bands, ribbon place marker, and lettering, design and border stamped in gilt. All edges of the text block in gilt. Unused Easton Press bookplate included. Fine and bright, issued without dust jacket, within the publisher's shrintwrap. As new.. Collector's edition. Hardcover. ... more information

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873. Hardcover. Very Good+. Half calf and marbled paper, gilt-stamped lettering in red and green leather spine labels, gilt-stamped ornament on spine, all edges marbled. Spine tips, corners, and joints scuffed; spine a bit darkened; some very light chipping along edges of boards. Bookplate of Abel Berland on front paste-down. A tight, internally clean set. ... more information

(New York): Limited Editions Club, (1981). cloth. Mild sunning to the spine. Just about Fine in a Fine slipcase. Barry Moser. Tall, thick octavo (6-7/8" x 10-7/8") bound in earth-brown natural-finish cloth stamped in crimson; 376 pages. Translated by T. E. Shaw (Laurence of Arabia); preface by Jeremy M. Wilson. Illustrated by Barry Moser with 24 full-page wood engravings and one vignette engraving. Copy #1168 of 2000 SIGNED by both the illustrator and the writer of the preface on the colophon page. ... more information

Houghton Mifflin: 1929 1st ed, 1929. First edition. Red decorated cloth. A very good hardcover copy, lacking the publisher's box. First Wyeth edition, illustrated with decorated endpapers and 16 color prints. ... more information

Delux edition, first thus by Houghton Mifflin Company, Cambridge, (Mass.): 1929. Near fine in bright red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and with gilt text stamped on the front board together with a gilt embossed, decorative image of Zeus with lightening bolts, with printed end sheets and with a speckled top edge to the text block. A small quarto measuring 10 1/2" by 7 1/4" with one page opened roughly. Without a dust jacket; however, the book is contained within a ve... more information

THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER, Houghton Mifflin, 1929, first edition thus, fine in g/vg slip-case Illustrated with 15 full color, full page plates by N. C. Wyeth. ... more information

New York: Oxford University Press, 1940. The 1940 Shaw translation. Fine in a strong Very Good plus example of the scarce dust jacket. Jacket has no chips or tears, only a diagonal crease at the front panel, a touch of toning to the spine panel, and a pinch of soil at the rear panel. A lovely copy of an important translation of The Odyssey, in a beautiful binding and jacket, one of 2500 designed by Bruce Rogers. ... more information

Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press, 1929. First edition thus. A fine copy, entirely clean and unworn in moderately worn publisher's slipcase. Original red cloth with title and cover ornament in gilt; small quarto; xxviii, 314 pp. Frontispiece and 15 full page color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. Also issued the same year in a signed, limited edition. ... more information

London.: John Russell Smith., 1874.. Handsomely bound in 3/4 blind ruled scarlet crushed morocco and marbled boards. Gilt ruled spine compartments with elaborate gilt tooled motifs. Marbled endsheets. t.e.g.. Very light occasional rubbing to covers. Attractive bookplates to front pastedowns. A Fine very attractive set.. Square 12mo. 5.5" x 6.75".. Illustrated throughout by decorative page vignettes. ... more information

Chestertown: Chester River Press. 2009. 12.5 x 14.5 inches, cloth, dust jackets, slipcase. 550; 434 pages.. 2 volumes. Acclaimed by Samuel Johnson as "a performance which no age or nation could hope to equal," Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad and Odyssey stands as one of the glories of English Literature. The Chester River Press edition of the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer has been designed and printed to reflect the epic proportions of this famous translation and offers both the Gr... more information

Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, [1929]. (WYETH, N. C) 4to. 16 color plates by N. C. Wyeth. Original red cloth gilt. Original partial slipcase. Fine ... more information

Cambridge:: Houghton Mifflin Company,, 1929.. First Trade Edition.. VG-. Red cloth with gilt text on spine. Light shelfwear to boards; bumping to head and tail of spine, very small tears at head of spine. Edges of textblock agetoned, pages have light scattered foxing. A number of color prints by Wyeth, all present. Inscribed by Wyeth on title page; also a gift inscription (not by Wyeth) on same page. Translated by George Herbert Palmer. 314 pp. Shelved in Case #5. Ancient History/Classical Studies. 9-12-11... more information

London, Reeves & Turner, 1887... One of 50 large paper sets. Quarter vellum and marbled paper boards with printed paper spine labels, uncut, vii, [1]-230; vii,[231]-450 pp. Endpapers foxed and blistered, covers rubbed with a few small chips in the paper, the spines are spotted, and both labels are chipped with loss of letters. The text is clean and bright. A very good copy of this rare edition. ... more information

London:: Alex Hogg,, [1780.]. 19th c. burgundy alligator grained morocco by Root, rebacked with original backstrip, some chipping to spine, gilt; a.e.g., marbled endpapers, interleaved with blank shhet to protect the illustrations, minor edge stains, some blue paper used, owner's bookplate, a fine copy.. Frontis. port. of Homer, 39 copperplates by various artists (24 after Fourdrinier), 1 map. [41 in all, complete]. 4to.. First Melmoth edition. Melmoth issued for Hogg a series of editions of the class... more information