Homer
The Odyssey. Two translations, 1996, 1967
NY: Viking; NY: Harper & Row
First editions. Fagles translation inscribed by Fagles himself. Lattimore translation inscribed its publisher, Melvin Arnold.
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Both volumes octavo. Fagles translation paginated x, 541pp. Fagles inscribes the copy to one Carol Ross, a 'lucky student of the great Lattimore.' Bound in white cloth over boards with...
Both volumes octavo. Fagles translation paginated x, 541pp. Fagles inscribes the copy to one Carol Ross, a "lucky student of the great Lattimore." Bound in white cloth over boards with white ribbon bookmark. Fine in fine dust wrapper, price-clipped. Together with the translation by the great Lattimore himself, which when published in 1967 was among the first books produced under Arnold's direction. Arnold addresses his inscription to the photographer Yousuf Karsh. Bound in brown cloth over boards. Fine in near fine dust wrapper.
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