Catullus: The Complete Poems for American Readers
by Gaius Valerius Catullus, tr. Reney Myers, Robert J. Ormsby
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0525078150
- ISBN 13
- 9780525078159
- Seller
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About This Item
E.P. Dutton & Co., 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. BILINGUAL EDITION LATIN-ENGLISH. 190 pages plus 18 pages front matter and introduction (by Quincy Howe, Jr.), with Glossary of names and place names, index of first lines for each language. Collaborative translation by a Latin scholar and a poet into fairly modern American English verse. 8vo, raspberry cloth with white lettering on spine, boards practically unworn, dust soil to top edge, page-turning soil at bottom right corner, back board very slightly bowed, faint foxing to edges, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked, in DJ clipped at bottom of flaps (but original price not clipped), soiled especially along folds.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WBB-1079
- Title
- Catullus: The Complete Poems for American Readers
- Author
- Gaius Valerius Catullus, tr. Reney Myers, Robert J. Ormsby
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0525078150
- ISBN 13
- 9780525078159
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- LATIN POETRY, QUINCY HOWE, JR.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Classical literature;
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