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Hardcover rebound in fine brown leather with gold embossing. Crosshatched on spine. 126 pages. Condition Very Good NO Dust Jacket. Stated Third edition 1842. Beautiful smooth brown leather boards and gold embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no highlights or bookplates. Some notes in text. Book Well kept and carefully stored. Slight shelf wear - edges have the usual yellowing, corners bumped. Pages are lightly toned with minor signs of wear and/or age. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Laid in are the receipt and business card from the Henry Pordes bookshop on Charing Cross London where purchased. Also the (somewhat worn) original shopping bag.Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is arguably one of the best plays of all time that inspired a large portion of the modern train of thought, and literary critics gave the play the epithet "Mona Lisa" of drama. It was certainly Aristotle's favorite play as he stated in Poetics, naming Oedipus the perfect tragic hero. The core of the play is… Read More

Trade Paperback 120 unnumbered pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated First paperback edition 1999. Lovely three color illustrations on wraps shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Art Spiegelman's sinister and witty black-and-white drawings give charged new life to Joseph Moncure March's Wild Party, a lost classic from 1928. The inventive and varied page designs offer perfect counterpoint to the staccato tempo of this hard-boiled jazz-age tragedy told in syncopated rhyming couplets.Here is a poem that can make even readers with no time for poetry stop dead in their tracks. Once read, large shards of this story of one night of debauchery will become permanently lodged in the brain. When The Wild Party was first published, Louis Untermeyer declared: "It is repulsive and fascinating, vicious and vivacious,… Read More