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Lot 324
Sale 402 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Nov 11, 2015
3:59AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$400 -
600
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$750
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Lot Description
(NONESUCH PRESS) HOMER
The Iliad [and] The Odyssey. Translated into English by Alexander Pope with parallel text in Greek. New York: Nonesuch Press, 1931. 2 vols. 8vo, full goatskin, gilt-lettered spines, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Ornaments by Rudolf Koch and Fritz Kredel. Limited to 1,450 copies, these being copy numbers 480 (Odyssey) and 1261 (Iliad). Darkening to spines and edges of boards; Rubbing to raised bands and wear to hinges (Iliad); some spotting to endpapers.


