Tales Ovid by Hughes Ted (184 results)

Condition: good. Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. Could have library markings. Ships promptly!.

Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition hardcover with dust jacket, published by FSG, 1997. A first printing copy. twenty four stories from Ovid's 'Metamorpheses', as translated by Ted Hughes. 257 pages, 5-1/2" X 9-1/2". The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. Jacket has been protected with a clear, removable cover. Cover boards are flat, the corners are not bumped or worn. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Binding is tight and square. One smudge mark on the fore edge of the text - see photos. Not a library discard, not a remainder. Attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. VERY GOOD / NO DUST JACKET. x, 257 pp, includes glossary of names and places. Pages are clean and unmarked. Softcover in black and white with classical illustration in color is clean and bright. Corners of front and back covers are very slightly bumped, but all edges are crisp and undamaged. Binding is tight, and overall the book is in near-to-new condition; very nice.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Front cover and spine faded. Covers scuffed and marked. Size: 5" X 8".

First Edition, first impression, with printing sequence line '24681097531'. Publisher's illustrated soft cover, pp. xvi, 128, in clear, protective, archival sleeve. Tim Supple and Simon Reade have taken ten tales from Hughes's version of Ovid's and transformed them for the stage. The world premiere was at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1999; Simon Reade was Literary Manager of the Royal Shakespeare Company Cover illustration by Brian Grimwood A book in Near Fine condition, unread.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 257pp. English versions, with a Glossary of Names and Places at end. English only. Q20262.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st American Edition. Quarter black cloth, blue paper boards. x, 257 pp. Fine. The Metamorphoses of Ovid stands with the great works of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton as a classic of world poetry. Ted Hughes, one of the most admired and widely read of living poets, has now translated with 24 stories from the Metamorphoses. The result, Tales from Ovid, is the most vigorous and supple 20th century version of this foundational work, at once a delight for the Latinist and an appealing introduction to Ovid for the general reader.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Faber, 1997. Wrappers. Near fine.

8°, Brosch., 264 S. - Rücken mit Knickspuren, sonst gutes Exemplar. Buch.

weicher Einband. 257 Seiten, O.Kart., 8° (Rücken verzogen / Kanten sehr stark berieben / zahlreiche Seiten mit Textunterstreichungen).

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First. 8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. New York: Farrar, Straus, (1997). First American Edition. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with jacket. Very good condition. First edition. Light edgewear to the jacket. Hardcover spine ends are a little bumped. Minor foxing on the page block. Pages are clean; all text is clear. CM. Used.

Condition: Fine. First Edition. Poster for the world premier of Hughes`s Tales from Ovid performed at the Centaur Theatre in Canada, March 10 - April 3 2005. Full colour, glossy paper, 24" x 36". Book.

Condition: Fine. First Edition. Poster for the world premier of Hughes`s Tales from Ovid performed at the Centaur Theatre in Canada, March 10 - April 3 2005. Full colour, glossy paper, 24" x 36". Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight toning at the edges.

Hardback. Condition: As new. No jacket. Limited first edition. Limited first edition. 8vo. Pp. [2], xi, 264, [14 (blank)]. Quarter-bound grey cloth over olive-green paper boards, with printed rust-red paper label to spine; rust-red endpapers. Five-page Introduction by the Author. Glossary of Names and Places to rear. Copy no. 273 of 300 copies offered for sale, and signed by Hughes on the limitation page. An additional 10 copies, numbered I-X, were reserved for the author. Specially bound by Smith Settle in Otley, West Yorkshire. Housed in a matching two-tone slipcase. Preceded by the 1997 hardcover trade edition, which was issued on May 5th, 1997. Winner of the 1997 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. Twenty-four passages from Ovid's Metamorphoses translated from the Latin into clear, emphatic English verse, by the Poet Laureate. Like his subsequent Birthday Letters (1998), a 'dramaturgy of healing' for Hughes evident in its selection, arrangement, and adaptation of Ovid's myths in which "the all-too-human victim stumbles out into the mythic arena and is transformed," as per his introduction. "Tales from Ovid is the best thing Hughes has done. It will live as one of the great works of this century." -Michael Hofmann, The Times. [Keith Sagar, Ted Hughes: A Bibliographical Supplement 1996-2013, A115] 608. signed.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Uncorrected proof. Fine in printed red wrappers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Black cloth hard cover with red titles on spine, and no cover wear. Inside front cover is an inscription to Sasha and David from Ted (Hughes) dated 25th March 1998 - 'from our days feasting and sometimes fishing among the mangroves, with my best wishes always'; xi, 264 pages; and further signature on preliminary title page - 'translated by Ted Hughes'. Book includes a newspaper clipping for Hughes' Times obituary, and a very powerful but anonymous love note! Clipped dust jacket with closed tear at upper front edge, but otherwise only very minor edge wear. Published in 1997 this signed 1st edition is in fine condition with very good dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Green boards. Fine in slipcase. No.2 of 10 numbered copies reserved for the author and signed by him. Ownership signature of the author's daughter, Frieda Hughes. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine first edition and first printing slipcased numbered limited edition hardback - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR this is copy 192/300 - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. 8vo., original black cloth, dust jacket. London, Faber and Faber. Winner of the Whitbread Prize and surprisingly scarce as a first edition. A near copy, spine panel of dust jacket slightly faded.

A first edition, first limited edition SIGNED and numbered (137) by the author. A fine book in near fine slipcase with a small stain to the rear panel. Rare.