Sophokles, Women of Trachis.
by POUND, Ezra
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
New York, New Directions [James Laughlin], 1957. . First American edition, first impression; 8vo; portrait frontispiece, slight offsetting to title, small mark to front free endpaper, Markham bookplate to front pastedown; publisher's black cloth, silver lettering to spine, with the unclipped dustjacket, slightly toned and marked, one or two short closed tears to top edge, else very good.
One of 3000 copies printed. First American edition of Pound's translation of Sophocles' Women of Trachis, a Greek tragedy considered by Pound to represent 'the highest peak of Greek sensibility registered in any of the plays that have come down to us...'
Gallup A72b.
One of 3000 copies printed. First American edition of Pound's translation of Sophocles' Women of Trachis, a Greek tragedy considered by Pound to represent 'the highest peak of Greek sensibility registered in any of the plays that have come down to us...'
Gallup A72b.
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- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
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- 110465
- Title
- Sophokles, Women of Trachis.
- Author
- POUND, Ezra
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York, New Directions [James Laughlin], 1957.
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