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UK: Flame Tree Publishing, 2022. Special Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/No Jacket Issued. Chapter decorations. CONDITION: NEW 2022 Flame Tree large hardcover (embossed art front and back boards), special edition (or some just call it a first edition with another ISBN number), first printing. Chapter decorations. Decorated end pages. CONTENT: A beautiful new edition of one of the great works of literature from Classical Antiquity. Virgil's masterpiece, one of the greatest works in Western literature, was written in Latin, between 29 and 19 BCE, recalling events after the Fall of Troy over 1200 years before, as told in the famous Homeric epics of Greek literature the Iliad and the Odyssey. The great adventures of Aeneas' flight from Troy and the prophesy of his founding of a great city linked Roman dynasty to the legends of a heroic past, bringing myth and history to bear in the politics of the Roman Empire. Here in the much-loved translation by John Dryden, and accompanied by Virgil's Eclogues… Read More

USA: Barron's/Salariya Book Company, 2010. 1st North American 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Li Sidong color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2010 Barron's/Salariya paperback graphic novel, first North American edition, first printing. Title on front cover in gold foil. Color illustrations by Li Sidon. This is a beautifully rendered paperback book, IMHO. Illustrations are historically correct as to costume and setting. CONTENT: This retelling of the first great epic poem in the English language recounts the story of Beowulf, his heroic struggle against the monster Grendel, and his final fight to the death with a ferocious dragon. Barron's Graphic Classics offer easy-to-follow retellings of immortal literary works. They introduce elementary and secondary school students to many of our culture's great plays, novels, and epic poems, and encourage boys and girls to discover the joy of reading the masterworks in their original form. Graphic Classics titles tell… Read More

Scotland: CanonGate, 2020. 1st Edition Assumed 1st. Hardcover. New/New. No illustrations; design in gold foil image front/back covers. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Canongate (Scotland) hardcover (white boards with gold foil design on back and front boards) and dust jacket, first edition, assumed first printing. Gold end pages. CONTENT: Dante, now guided by Beatrice, faces the final third of his epic journey through the wheels of divine justice. Yet as he passes through the spheres of Heaven, he struggles with his faith, striving to understand the scales of good and evil that determine the fate of a human soul. The final book from Alasdair Gray, Paradise is a fitting conclusion to his own irreplaceable body of work, as well as to his masterful retelling of Dante's trilogy.

Schocken Books, 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/No Jacket Issued. Mark Podwal color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Schocken Books small hardcover (pictorial boards), NO DJ issued, first edition, first printing. Haunting color illustrations by Mark Podwal. Introduction by Elisha Wiesel. NOTE: Although I don't think so, this edition may have had a dust jacket originally, but this release did not have one. CONTENT: Elie Wiesel's heartbreaking narrative poem about history, immortality, and the power of song, accompanied by magnificent full-color illustrations by award-winning artist Mark Podwal. Based on an actual event that occurred during World War II in Poland. It is the evening before the holiday of Purim, and the Nazis have given the ghetto's leaders twenty-four hours to turn over ten Jews to be hanged to "avenge" the deaths of the ten sons of Haman, the villain of the Purim story, which celebrates the triumph of the Jews of Persia over potential genocide some 2,400 years ago. If… Read More