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Women of Trachis.
by POUND, Ezra (trans.); SOPHOCLES
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Neville Spearman,, 1956. Presented to his estranged wife First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by Pound to his wife on the front free endpaper, "D.P., hers, E.P. Dec 24, '56". Pound presented the book to his wife, Dorothy, from whom he was partly estranged, as a Christmas present in the year of publication. Pound's inscription is terse but loving: the book is "hers", even if he no longer is. As a gift to an anatagonized spouse, the play's content is apposite: Sophocles's tragedy dramatizes the murder of Hercules by his wife, Deianeira. Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece of Pound by La Martinelli. Spine slightly cocked and bumped; dust jacket lightly toned, extremities chipped with some small loss, spine and rear panel split and neatly repaired with archival tape to verso, unclipped: a very good copy in good jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 163731
- Title
- Women of Trachis.
- Author
- POUND, Ezra (trans.); SOPHOCLES
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Neville Spearman,
- Date Published
- 1956
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Peter Harrington
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About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- E.P.
- The double leaves bound into a book at the front and rear after ...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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