W B Stanford Introductory Essay Notes (2 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Published in The Penguin Classics: 1977. 335 + pp. An excellent study or work or reading or research copy! Solidly and tightly bound copy with moderate external and overall wear and use. Copy with occasional pen markings and blue highlighter markings on text. Mildly rubbed corners. Detail of A Mycenaean Gold Cup From Vaphio (Cover); Eugene Vanderpool, Jr. (Cover Photo); Sylvia Allman (Illustrations) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Viking Press, 1975. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Black cloth with gilt and red spine lettering. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with no printed price on the front flap, a copy likely issued for export only or as part of a small academic press run, as was sometimes done by Viking for scholarly titles, to be sticker priced at point of sale. (No book club indicators are present, and binding and production conform to trade first edition standards). Jacket shows only the faintest rubbing. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean copy. Endpapers and illustrations by Sylvia Allman, whose designs evoke the style of ancient Greek vase painting. Octavo, 343 pages. Aeschylus's The Oresteia, translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction by W.B. Stanford, presents Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides in a modern poetic idiom that became a touchstone of American classics publishing. Fagles would later earn acclaim for his bestselling translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey.…