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Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1956
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Previous owner's signature. Stain and 15mm missing at head of dust-jacket spine. 30mm tears at tail of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1956 revised edition (the first edition was published in 1954 in the USA). 192 pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 218 x 138mm. Contents: Preface by the Author; Foreword by Sir Maurice Bowra; Homer and the Greeks; Bards and Heroes; Wealth and Labour; Household, Kin, and Community; Morals and Values: Appendix: A Note on Homer and the Mycenaean Tablets; Bibliographical Essay; Source References and Indexes; Index of Passages Quoted; Map; General Index. "The thirty-odd revisions I have made for this edition are all minor ones, in no place involving more than a single sentence, and several new items have been added to the bibliographical essay." - from the author's Preface, page 7.