The Iliad of Homer (Modern Library #166.1)
by HOMER
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. [c.1948]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of the epic poem of ancient Greece, rendered into English prose by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf and Ernest Meyers; and with a prefatory note. --- In Toledano spine 8 / pale green cloth / gilt titling on green spine & cover blocks / green topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h / verso advertises 334 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1948 (no publication date appears in book). ML #166.1. --- With discreet pencilings to perhaps as many as 6 leaves, penciled doodlings to torchbearer images at front and back endpapers, and moderately discolored cloth, else a sound copy. Fair-only, unclipped dust jacket with plenty of chips and tears but remains mostly intact and in new removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; (6), 464 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85581
- Title
- The Iliad of Homer (Modern Library #166.1)
- Author
- HOMER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1948]
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Poetry;
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- Cloth
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- Good+
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Reprint
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- 12mo
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- Jacket
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- Fair
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Leaves
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