THE ODYSSEY
Beautiful Edwardian-era set of the Ancient Greek epic, bound in rich full goatskin by Roger de Coverly and Sons.
Beautiful Edwardian-era set of the Ancient Greek epic, bound in rich full goatskin by Roger de Coverly and Sons.
Lovely three-volume pocket edition of Dryden's translation of the AENEID, ECOLOGUES, and GEORGICS, printed by the famed Scottish Enlightenment printers, the Foulis brothers.
First edition of the Pulitzer- and Nobel-winning authors fourth book of poetry, the title poem addressing "the power of grief to motivate heroic action" (Morris, 50) — not through victory in battle, but through Achilles's love of Patroclus.
First printing of this collection of Bly's translations of Neruda, Rilke, Basho, Rumi, Horace, and many others.