Ovid Guy Lee (10 results)

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 127 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm. Notes: First published in 1968. Translation of: Amores. Subjects: Ovid 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. ; Translations into English; Love poetry, Latin ; Translations into English; Elegiac poetry, Latin ; Translations into English; Abortion; Anger; Happiness; Jealousy; Lost loves; Love; Adultery; Love tokens; Lovers' quarrels; Poets; Rivals in love; Sexual attraction; Sleep; Translations. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Ward, John (illustrator).

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 127 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm. Notes: First published in 1968. Translation of: Amores. Subjects: Ovid 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. ; Translations into English; Love poetry, Latin ; Translations into English; Elegiac poetry, Latin ; Translations into English; Abortion; Anger; Happiness; Jealousy; Lost loves; Love; Adultery; Love tokens; Lovers' quarrels; Poets; Rivals in love; Sexual attraction; Sleep; Translations. 1 Kg. …

hardback, 8vo, 201pp, Latin text with parallel English translation, owner's name on endpaper, contents clean and sound, Good condition in Fair dustwrapper, wrapper torn with selloatpe repairs. . ISBN: 0719517966.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight wear on lower edge of text with slight stain on upper edge of text. Dust jacket is worn on facing, edges, corners, and ends of spine with tear along upper spine and small piece missing and a few tears near lower edges. Else good 202 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 202 pages. The dust jacket has a little wear, with a clipped front inside flap. The page edges are lightly foxed. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First US edition. Cloth and boards with dust jacket. Fine copy in very good dust jacket. Wood engraving of myrtle by Reynolds Stone on the sectional title pages and the same image blind-stamped on the front board, a nice subtle touch. Jacket for the American edition designed by Jules Madoff. Jacket is tanned in a strip at the top of the back panel, front panel has a short tear at the top left corner next to the spine and a few nicks along the top edge. "A virile and colloquial rendering . . . The only complete modern translation . . . " from the front of the dust jacket. Bilingual edition, Latin and English in facing pages. A very readable, unstilted translation. With notes, a biography of Ovid, and commentary on his own translation by Lee. Ovid was frankly lustful and, in modern parlance, a player, with little of the begging coyness of the love poetry of English poets like Andrew Marvell. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. In a yellow hardcover with gilt titles to spine. With a clipped dust jacket with black and blue titles to spine and front and a colour illustration to front. 202 pp. The book is in very good condition with just very minor shelf-wear to the cover. The binding is tight. There is a little light foxing to the end papers and light foxing and a mark to the fore edge, otherwise the pages are clean and unmarked. The dust jacket is fair with generally minor shelf-wear to the extremities but thee is a 2.3 " tear to the front. There is also some light marking and a price label to the bottom of the front flap.…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. 5.5 x 8.25in. vii. 209pp. Publisher's cloth boards. FINE/AS NEW in Fine/As New dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. A flawless, exceptionally maintained copy. As pictured.