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MEN AND GODS: Myths and Legends of the Ancient Greeks
by Warner, Rex
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
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Lawrence, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Looking Glass Library , 1959. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very good. Gorey. Illustrations by Edward Gorey. Sm 8vo. Gorey illustrated black boards. 297 pages. No dust-jacket, as issued. Toledano B10a. Wear to edges and corners. Chipped at top of spine (not affecting lettering). Small price sticker ("$1.50") at bottom of rear cover. Small hand-stamp number ("0001") on top of Front Free end paper.
Looking Glass Library No. 4 (with 10 Looking Glass Library titles listed on page 287). The first edition with the Edward Gorey illustrations.
Looking Glass Library No. 4 (with 10 Looking Glass Library titles listed on page 287). The first edition with the Edward Gorey illustrations.
Synopsis
Rex Warner (1905—1986) was an author, translator, and professor of English. Born in Birmingham, England, he was educated at Oxford. Warner was a member of the British Home Guard from 1942 until 1945. He was the Tallman Professor of Classics at Bowdoin College before joining the English faculty at the University of Connecticut in 1962. Edward Gorey (1925–2000) was born in Chicago. He studied briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago, spent three years in the army testing poison gas, and attended Harvard College, where he majored in French literature and roomed with the poet Frank O’Hara. In 1953 Gorey published The Unstrung Harp , the first of his many extraordinary books, which include The Curious Sofa , The Haunted Tea-Cosy , and The Epiplectic Bicycle . In addition to illustrating his own books, Edward Gorey provided drawings to countless books for both children and adults. Of these, New York Review Books has published The Haunted Looking Glass , a collection of Gothic tales that he selected and illustrated; The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells; Men and Gods , a retelling of ancient Greek myths by Rex Warner; in collaboration with Rhoda Levine, Three Ladies Beside the Sea and He Was There from the Day We Moved In ; and The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories , a collection of tales by Saki.
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- Bookseller
- Waugh Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5730
- Title
- MEN AND GODS:
- Author
- Warner, Rex
- Illustrator
- Gorey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus
- Publisher
- Looking Glass Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Gorey
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