gordon king ed (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. 3rd impression. xi, [2], 385 double-column p.; illus. & plans in text; 25 cm. [First printed in 1972] VG orig. green leatherette in good p-c dj.

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. First Edition Stated. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's cloth, red topstain, pictorial endpapers, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; xi,[3],274pp.; frontispiece, thirteen full-page illustrations and three maps, one of them double-paged. Dust jacket margins a bit chipped and worn with smallish losses at top edge of upper panel and spine crown briefly touching text, spine panel toned as usual, else a Near Fine example in a Very Good copy of the jacket. Compilation of some of the most famous stories from Herodotus, carefully chosen by the editor Gordon King to "introduce history as a living thing." Accompanied by the equally living illustrations of Russian-American artist Boris Artzybasheff, whose picture book "Seven Simons" was named a Caldecott Honor Book and whose illustrations were frequently featured in Life, Fortune, and Time magazines.