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SAPPHO OF LESBOS: Her Life and Times by (Sappho). Weigall, Arthur - 1932.

by (Sappho). Weigall, Arthur

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SAPPHO OF LESBOS: Her Life and Times

by (Sappho). Weigall, Arthur

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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1932.. 1932.. Good. - Octavo, rust brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine with a vignette of a lyre stamped in gilt on the front cover. The covers are lightly rubbed & bumped. The spine is slightly faded with the head & tail lightly chipped. ix, [iii] & 328 pages. There is an owner's name & date on the front endpaper & there are pencil notes on the rear endpaper & 1 rear blank. Illustrated with 12 black-and-white plates. Good. <p>First edition.
  • Bookseller Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. US (US)
  • Book Condition Used - Good
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1932.
  • Date Published 1932.
  • Keywords CLASSICAL STUDIES; GREECE; ANCIENT GREECE; LESBOS; SAPPHO; POET; BIOGRAPHY; HISTORY; ILLUSTRATIONS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

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by [SAPPHO OF LESBOS]. WEIGALL, Arthur

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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1932. 8vo. ix, [3], 328 pp. With numerous plates & maps. Brick-red publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering spine, harp decoration front cover (minor edgewear, rubbing, faint offsetting at center pp. from original 1932 seller’s invoice), w/ d.j. cover art of Sappho performing (chipping head of spine, edgewear, tear w/ loss to foot of spine, scuffing to fore-edges, closed tear), still VG/G- copy, from the library of Academy Award nominee, Rupert Hughes (1872-1956), noted novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and composer, as well as uncle of Howard Hughes, w/ Hollywood Book Store invoice laid-in, dated Sept. 16, 1932, to Hughes at his Los Feliz address, Don & Lila Foth bookplate on front pastedown. First edition of this biography of Sappho, considered one of the great lyric poets of ancient Greece, who probably wrote around 10,000 lines of poetry, of which only about 650 survive.
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