The Oresteia -- Easton 100 Greatest Books Ever Written
Norwalk: Easton Press, C. 1979. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, deep green full leather gilt, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilded, fine. Morshead translations, illustrated by Michael Ayrton.
Norwalk: Easton Press, C. 1979. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, deep green full leather gilt, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilded, fine. Morshead translations, illustrated by Michael Ayrton.
London: Bell and Daldy, 1865. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1865. 8vo, crushed ruddy brown calf, 186 pp, very good, light wear and rubbing along spine.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1950. Hardcover. Volume two only! Black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has small spot of soil to rear board, hint of wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked, but for previous owner's blindstamp to rear flyleaf. DJ.....
Paris: Librairie Hachette, (1919). First printing. Paperback. First printing of this translation, 1919, wraps, very good, unopened, with an inscription by Silvain and his colleague Jaubert (hard to read the name of the recipient); probably inscribed in advance of the performance, only the anticipated recipient was a no-show, as this.....
Haarlem, The Netherlands: The Limited Editions Club/Joh. Enschede en Zonen, 1965. Hardcover. Gilt stamped blue and cream cloth boards in slipcase, octavo, illustrated in b&w, with prospectus laid in. Book has handsome boards, tiny spot to spine near head (see picture), tight binding, text clean and unmarked, feels unread. Slipcase.....
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, very good to near fine, touch of wear, inscribed to a friend by Sandy, the translator of Seven Against Thebes in this volume.
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1850. Second edition. Hardcover. "New edition, revised", 1850. Cloth hardcover, 108 pp., clean unmarked text, Good ex-library copy with usual marks (bookplates, label on spine, etc.), creasing to a number of pages, soil or discoloration to some pages of the text, wear to the edges.....
Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1903. First printing. Hardcover. One of 160 unnumbered copies. First edition thus, 1903. Cloth-backed boards, 70 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good+ copy, rubbing or wear to the tips and edges of the covers, no dust jacket.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1969, hardcover with brown cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 278pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked, except for previous owner's blindstamp and ink note to rear flyleaf. DJ near fine.....
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1927. First edition thus. Hardcover. Volume two only. First edition thus, limited to 400 copies--1927. Vellum-backed brown boards with gilt top-edge housed in wax dust jacket and double-slipcased (outer slipcase has a paper spine-label, 192 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Good dust jacket.....
Amsterdam: Verlag H. J. Paris, 1928. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1928. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 252 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Fair dust jacket, age-toning to the pages and page-edges, a bit of bumping or wear to the tips of the book's covers, dust.....