Sporting with Amaryllis by West, Paul - 1996-12-01

Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bound in paper covered boards with a black cloth spine.

Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press, 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This 1st printing is unmarked, square and tight like New.

The Overlook Press, 1996. Jacket and boards have only light wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

The Overlook Press, 1996-12-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x0. First Edition stated. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.

Overlook Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in very good condition. First edition, first printing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1996. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 158 pp. .

Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press, 1996. 158 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H). "Taking as his point of departure the sexual obsessions and initiation of the poet John Milton, Paul West elucidates the psychology of an artist who would come to create the most enduring and compelling work of Western civilization on the subject of Original Sin. But that all comes later. Now young Milton is a Cambridge student, a virgin, intoxicated by the power of words and the stories of myth - and especially the myth of Amaryllis, the shepherdess in Virgil. When he meets her on a crowded London street, and is led mutely to her odd dwelling, hung with dripping animals skins and shared with a philosophizing, castrated expert on plague remedies, he encounters a living myth so powerful as to make his earlier learning - his religion, really - pale by comparison. Is she a prostitute? A witch? A myth sprung to life? All that and more, as she invites Milton to use her as his Muse. Brilliant, confounding, allegorical, and… Read More