The Songs of Sappho: In English Translation by Many Poets and Decorated by Stanley Wyatt
by SAPPHO
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Mount Vernon, NY: The Peter Pauper Press. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. A presentation of lyric poems (poems that are meant to be sung) by the ancient Greek Saphho (c.630 BC c.570 BC). Apart from her "To Aphrodite" which is intact, her work has only survived in fragments. Sappho is considered one of the greatest of all lyric poets. The poems are accompanied by drawings by Stanley Wyatt. --- In terra cotta and black paper-covered boards with Wyatt image of Sappho to cover. Volume wrapped in jacket which repeats the cover art. --- A sound, tightly-bound copy, though with long tear at front joint which does not affect the stability of the binding. Price-clipped dust jacket with large triangular open tear to top of front panel, else intact.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; 61 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88148
- Title
- The Songs of Sappho: In English Translation by Many Poets and Decorated by Stanley Wyatt
- Author
- SAPPHO
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Peter Pauper Press
- Place of Publication
- Mount Vernon, NY
- Date Published
- 1966
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Poetry;
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Littleton, Colorado
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....