Search Results: sappho of lesbos her life

New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1932. Hardcover. Rubbed area on front cover; extremities slightly frayed; cut-outs from dust jacket adhered to front endpapers; lacking bottom corner of rear free endpaper; pages faintly toned; otherwise very good condition (no dust jacket). . 328p.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1932. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Gilt lettering & front cover lyre illustration on tan cloth covered boards. 8vo, 328pp. 2nd. printing. Spine lettering faded, Contents fine.

Frederick A. Stokes. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1932. Hardcover. Front inner hinge cracked but holding. Chipping to ends of spine cover cloth. Former owner's name in pencil to ffep. ; 328 pages .

Garden City, 1932. Early Issue Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Very good. Out of print. Illustrated with plates.

Rich & Cowan, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. the boards are edge worn and a bit chipped. mild foxing. small sticker and a gift inscription. binding is a bit knocked and may have been repaired. all pages are clear and legible. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

New York: Frederick A.Stokes, 1982 Book. Very Good. Cloth. 1st Canadian Edition. (Small stamp on title page states " Canadian Edition For Sale in Canada only") A solid, scholarly and interesting biography of this poetess, including "Every known fragment of Sappho's poetry is quoted in full .(using) the Greek text as edited by J.M.Edmonds in his Lyra Greca" . The notion that there were two Sapphos-one the poet and the other the courtesan-is discussed and dismissed."With 13 reproductions from sketches and photographs" 328p. plates, maps,index. Name of previous owner, Rear end paper missing .

London: Thornton Butterworth, 1937 Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Thus. A solid, scholarly and interesting biography of this poetess, including 'Every known fragment of Sappho's poetry is quoted in full .(using) the Greek text as edited by J.M.Edmonds in his Lyra Greca" . The notion that there were two Sapphos- - one the poet and the other the courtesan-is discussed and dismissed. 319p.frontis. plates, maps,index. Cloth binding fading along spine.

London: Rich & Cowan Ltd, 1938. First Edition, First printing. Hard Cover. Bound in 3/4 faux leather with raised spine bands. NEAR-FINE. BINDING CLEAN, GOLD TOP STAIN BRIGHT, INTERIOR CLEAN, SLIGHT FOXING TO FRONT EDGE.

London: Rich & Cowan, 1938. First edition (hardback). 8vo (21cm by 14cm), 278pp. Frontispiece illustration. Original red cloth, dustwrapper. Bookplate to the front free endpaper, foxing to the edges of the text block; overall, the book is in good condition. The dustwrapper is just about in good condition (edges chipped and torn with some loss). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.

Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc. NONE [NONE] 1932. (hardcover) vii, 328pp. Very good. 8vo. Published the same year as first edition. Black buckram, red title to spine, with red decoration to front board. Black and white illustrations. Biography that tells of the "greatest poetess who ever lived". Very good copy. With thirteen reproductions from sketches and photographs..

New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1932. 2nd printing. Hardback. Near fine in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 328 pages; Description: ix p. , 1 l. , 328 p. Plates, maps. 22 cm. SIgned, inscribed and dated by Jim Tully. Subjects: Sappho. Poets, Greek --Homes and haunts --Greece --Lesbos Island. Women and literature --Greece.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1932. 8vo. ix, [3], 328 pp. With numerous plates & maps. Brick-red publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering spine, harp decoration front cover (minor edgewear, rubbing, faint offsetting at center pp. from original 1932 seller’s invoice), w/ d.j. cover art of Sappho performing (chipping head of spine, edgewear, tear w/ loss to foot of spine, scuffing to fore-edges, closed tear), still VG/G- copy, from the library of Academy Award nominee, Rupert Hughes (1872-1956), noted novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and composer, as well as uncle of Howard Hughes, w/ Hollywood Book Store invoice laid-in, dated Sept. 16, 1932, to Hughes at his Los Feliz address, Don & Lila Foth bookplate on front pastedown. First edition of this biography of Sappho, considered one of the great lyric poets of ancient Greece, who probably wrote around 10,000 lines of poetry, of which only about 650 survive.

London: Rich & Cowan, LTD (1938), 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [4], v-ix, [1], 11-278 pp. Red cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of 10/6 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a frontispiece photograph of an ancient hydria featuring Sappho, in the collection of the National Museum of Athens. A biography of Sappho's life detailing her family, her work, and her sexuality. A name on the front flyleaf, a bit of foxing to the textblock; jacket shows a few small chips.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1932. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Tall octavo. 328pp. Illustrated. Fine in attractive, very good illustrated dustwrapper with several small chips and tears. Popular biography by a noted Egyptologist that purports to tell the story of "the greatest poetess who ever lived," and of "the story of her strange, unhallowed life and tragic death." Little was actually known of Sappho's life, and only a fragment of her poetry exists, but Weigall seems to have been happy to jazz up the story. Scarce in jacket.