Pindar Farleigh John (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. Quarto. Illustrated with wood engravings by John Farleigh. Original black cloth over beige boards. No dust jacket. Very good. 297 pages. One of 250 copies. Bookplate of Father Vincent Lloyd Russell on front paste down. John Farleigh (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. In two volumes. Clean, tight, limited edition (225/250) hardcovers in good condition; edge wear at paper covered boards, mild rubbing and lightly stained, former owner's bookplate and name on paste-downs and end papers of both volumes. Farleigh, John (illustrator).

First Edition. 'There is nothing in the whole range of literature corresponding to the Greek odes of victory, the most spendid examples of which still surviving were composed by Pindar between the years 502 and 442 B.C., during the most flourishing period of the Greeks' history, and in the high summer of their genius.' -The Olympian Odes, introduction, v. NOUGHT RIVALS WATER: GOLD, A FIRE THAT FLAMES ILLUMINATING THE NIGHT, ALL WEALTH OUTVIES; AND WOULDST THOU CHANT, MY SOUL, OF CONTESTS WON LOOK NOT FOR DAY-BEAMS IN THE LONELY SKIES. Limited edition of 250 copies. Parallel Greek and English text. Quarto, original decorated papered boards, fore and bottom edges uncut; edges a little foxed, a near-fine copy.…