Collection: Classical Life & Letters

Scarce first edition of this ambitious late work, a long poem using as its point of departure a fifty-line fragment by the ancient Greek poet Stesichorus, and conceived by H. D. as a female-centered rejoinder of sorts to Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos and the epic... More

NY: Oxford University Press, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo. 440pp. First edition of the esteemed collection of modern verse translations edited and introduced by Peter Jay. Bound in full brown cloth with gilt spine titles. Rear board cloth shows some lifting/bubbling. Otherwise only light shelfwear, light dust... More

First edition (copyright page states "First published 1956," with no additional printings noted). Octavo (8 x 5.25 in.), 389 pp., brown textured paper boards, in dust jacket. A very good to near fine copy, lightly bumped at bottom rear corner, and with light toning to... More

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 206pp. First edition. Bound in full grey cloth with black spine titels and purple endpapers. Fine save for a pair of 1" strips of adhesive residue on the front pastedown, in fine, price-clipped jacket. Walter... More

NY: The Viking Press, 1972. First edition, first printing. 305pp. Red boards backed with green cloth; bronze spine titles; pink topstain; dust jacket. An ex-library copy, the indicators being: blacked-out stamps to textblock top and base of copyright page; barcode sticker and stamps to front... More