New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. [c.1948]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of the epic poem of ancient Greece, rendered into English prose by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf and Ernest Meyers; and with a prefatory note. --- In Toledano spine 8 / pale green cloth / gilt titling on green spine & cover blocks / green topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h / verso advertises 334 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1948 (no publication date appears in book). ML #166.1. --- With discreet pencilings to perhaps as many as 6 leaves, penciled doodlings to torchbearer images at front and back endpapers, and moderately discolored cloth, else a sound copy. Fair-only, unclipped dust jacket with plenty of chips and tears but remains mostly intact and in new removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; (6), 464 pages .

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Bookseller: Bluebird Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 85581
Title: The Iliad of Homer (Modern Library #166.1)
Author: HOMER
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+ in Fair dust jacket
Publisher: The Modern Library / Random House
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: [c.1948]
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Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Verso: The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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...