Search Results: Ancient Literature from Charles Agvent

New York: Privately Printed, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Two folio sheets folded into fours, 7-3/4" x 10-1/2", printing the papyrus fragment of the poem along with a full-page commentary by Marylin B. Arthur who did the translation along with Daniel Haberman. Drawing by Cornelia Brendel Foss. Copy #32 of 300 printed by hand on handmade paper and SIGNED by Haberman. This copy also INSCRIBED by Haberman to R'Lene Dahlberg, wife of Edward Dahlberg. Erinna was an ancient Greek poet, possibly a contemporary of Sappho. She is best known for her long poem, the DISTAFF, a three-hundred line hexameter lament for her childhood friend Baucis, who had died shortly after marriage. This fragment comes from that poem.

Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Hardcover. A few light spots to covers; spine a tad sunned. Close to Fine in a Fine slipcase. Irving Amen. Quarto (8-3/4" x 12-3/4") bound in ochre buckram stamped in brown pigment leaf with a reproduction of a 7th century B.C. cuneiform tablet mounted on the front cover. Translated by William Ellory Leonard. Illustrated with 9 three-color woodcuts and 7 part-page black-and-white woodcuts and linocuts reproduced from the work of Irving Amen. Copy #579 of 2000 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

New York: Heritage Press, (1951). Hardcover. Fine in slipcase. Edmund Dulac. Decorated cloth. A re-telling of a story from Apuleius's THE GOLDEN ASS illustrated with color plates by Edmund Dulac. A less expensive version of the Limited Editions Club edition.