Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable, Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes
by Bulfinch
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/No Dust Jacket
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1948. First Edition Thus . Green Cloth / Brown Burlap. Very Good +/No Dust Jacket. Color Plates By Federico Castellon. 402 pp. Top edge gilt. #144 of 1000 copies of a limited edition, signed on a special limitation page. Light wear and a little dampstaining around center of rear spine edge.
Synopsis
The literature of our time, as of all the centuries of Christendom, is full of allusions to the gods and goddesses of the Greeks and Romans. Occasionally, and, in modern days, more often, it contains allusions to the worship and the superstitions of the northern nations of Europe. The object of this book is to teach readers who are not yet familiar with the writers of Greece and Rome, or the ballads or legends of the Scandinavians, enough of the stories which form what is called their mythology, to make those allusions intelligible which one meets every day, even in the authors of our own time.
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- Arroyo Seco Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019197
- Title
- Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable, Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes
- Author
- Bulfinch
- Illustrator
- Color Plates By Federico Castellon
- Format/Binding
- Green Cloth / Brown Burlap
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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