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Temple Univ Pr, 1979-08. Softcover. Good. Softcover in good condition. Creasing in spine and covers. Slightly loose binding by front cover. All pages secure. Bent back cover. Nice, clean pages. Out of print.

Temple Univ Pr, 1979-08-01. Paperback. Good. 1.0236 in x 8.2677 in x 5.3150 in. Pages clean and bright, binding sound. Wraps mildly curled and edgeworn; sunning to spine.

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Temple University Press, 1974. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Temple University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Presumed first edition, 1974, hardcover with orange cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 200pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG with sun to spine, mild soil and rubbing, small ink mark to rear panel.

Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1974 Book. Illus. by Trans. Kimon Friar. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Pbk.Ed... Translated with an introduction and notes by Kimon Friar..200p. notes bibliography. Clean crisp copy.

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Paperback / softback. New. Odysseus Elytis (1911-1996) was born on Crete. With Seferis and the 'Generation of the Thirties', he introduced French Surrealism into Greek poetry. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1979. The Sovereign Sun begins with his brilliantly sensuous early poems. It has large selections from his master work, Axion Esti (1959), and includes the whole of his Heroic and Elegiac Song for the Lost Second Lieutenant of the Albanian Campaign (1945). 'He has a romantic and lyrical mind, which deploys a metaphysic of complete intellectual sensuality-the rocks, the islands, the blue Greek sea, the winds; they are at once "real" and also "signatures" in the alchemical sense. He makes his magic with them, and it is peculiarly Greek magic that he makes. His poems are spells, and they conjure up that eternal Greek world which has haunted and continues to haunt the European consciousness with its hints of a perfection that always remains a possibility. The… Read More

Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1990. Paperback. New. 210 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.50 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Temple Univ Pr. paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!