steele savage illustrations (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition. Tall 8vo. Cloth with dust jacket. Fine copy in near fine dust jacket slightly chipped at the top of the spine panel. Thirty-eight stories, a mixture of pure myths and stories from the Iliad and Odyssey, including all the old favorites: Pandora's box, Apollo and Phaeton, Baucis and Philemon, Hercules, Orpheus, Pyramis and Thisbe, Ulysses (Odysseus), Theseus and the Minotaur, Icarus, etc. With dynamic illustrations in black-and-white by Steele Savage.

Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's russet cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good+ with a deep scratch to topstain, former owner name to front free endpaper, tanning to pages with some corner-creases and uneven tanning to the bottom textblock edge. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with fading to the spine, soiling, toning and wear. A classic introductory text to mythology, widely read and enjoyed to this day; very uncommon in its first printing.

First edition. First edition, first printing. xiv, 497 pp. Bound in publisher's russet cloth stamped in gilt. Fine with bright gilt, tiny vintage bookseller's ticket to front free endpaper, in a Very Good example of the rare dust jacket, spine panel sunned, small tears, edge wear, price intact ($3.50). A classic introductory text to mythology, widely read and enjoyed to this day; very uncommon in its first printing.