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Published by New American Library, 1960
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Sixth Printing. Wraps have light wear, spine is unbent. Pages are clean with no markings in text. Prior owner name on fep. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Libris.
Published by Penguin Books, 1955
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Good. 1955. First Edition. 394 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.
Published by Penguin, 1955
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Fair. 1955. First Edition Thus. 393 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Slight cracking to binding, pages remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Stamp to first page. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners. Light tanning to spine and edges. Foxing overall. Book has rolled spine.
Published by Penguin Books, 1955
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Fair. 1955. First Edition Thus. 394 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with minor defects. Moderate issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.
Published by Penguin Books, 1955
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Good. 1955. First Edition. 394 pages. Illustrated paper cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.
Published by New American Library, 1960
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Good. 1960. First Edition Thus. 448 pages. Illustrated paper cover. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Paper covers have moderate edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and curling to corners. Moderate tanning and wear marks to spine and covers.
Published by Penguin Books Ltd, London, 2004
ISBN 10: 014044789XISBN 13: 9780140447897
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "I think this version is terrific. The light enjambed English hexameters are a great success. The effect is properly propulsive." - Prof A D Nuttall, OxfordOvid's deliciously witty and exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked Greek and Roman myths and legends in which men and women are transformed, often by love - into flowers, trees, stones and stars. This new verse translation, in simple and swift English hexameters, allows Ovid's narrative to flow - pulling the reader along with it. Ovid's witty and exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked Greek and Roman myths and legends in which men and women are transformed, often by love - into flowers, trees, stones and stars. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Indiana University Press, 2018
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The popular translation by Humphries in a new, annotated edition with commentary by Joseph D. Reed.
Published by Mentor Books, 1960
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Thus. (1st Thus) Mass-market paperback with decorations by Zhenya Gay. Color-illustration on back wrapper, very slight wear to spine top edge and spine bottom right edge, small smudge near top back right. 448 pages, lightly browned. Good copy.
Published by WW Norton & Co, New York, 2005
ISBN 10: 039332642XISBN 13: 9780393326420
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Ovid's epic poem?hose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages?s one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. Charles Martin combines a close fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original. Martin's Metamorphoses will be the translation of choice for contemporary readers in English. This volume also includes endnotes and a glossary of people, places, and personifications. "A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard." Michael Dirda, Washington Post Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by North Point Press, 1980, 1980
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition, first printing Softcover. From the library of the poet William Matthews, fully signed by Matthews on the opening flyleaf. Near fine white wraps in very good illustrated dust jacket with some summing.
HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good+. Hans Erni (illustrator). 1st edition thus. 519pp, octavo in slipcase, tight binding, clean and flat pages throughout, faintly soiled front cove, sharp corners, mildly worn case, Fine in VG+ slipcase. includes Sandglass.
Published by WW Norton & Co, New York, 2010
ISBN 10: 039392534XISBN 13: 9780393925340
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Ovid's epic poemwhose theme of change has resonated throughout the agesis one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's time to the present, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. The text is accompanied by a preface, A Note on the Translation, and detailed explanatory annotations. "Sources and Backgrounds" includes Seneca's inspired commentary on Ovid, Charles Martin's essay on the ways in which pantomimic dancingan art form popular in Ovid's timemay have been the model for Metamorphoses, as well as related works by Virgil, Callimachus, Hesiod, and Lucretius, among others. From the enormous body of scholarly writing on Metamorphoses, Charles Martin has chosen six major interpretations by Bernard Knox, J. R. R. Mackail, Norman O. Brown, Italo Calvino, Frederick Ahl, and Diane Middlebrook. A Glossary of Persons, Places, and Personifications in the Metamorphoses and a Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. In his award-winning translation, Charles Martin combines fidelity to Ovids text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Addison-Wesley, 1989
ISBN 10: 0582367484ISBN 13: 9780582367487
Seller: Textbooks_Source, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).
Published by Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993
ISBN 10: 0151705291ISBN 13: 9780151705290
Seller: Friends of Poughkeepsie Library, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Boards with heavy foxing. Front board with scuffing near top edge and shallow paper lift. Edgewear and dinging along bottom edges. Spine extremiteis/joints with soft creasing. Wear to corners, bumping to lower corners. Internally clean and unmarked. Foxing and soil to text block edges. DJ with general wear, edge wear, upper edge curl, soil, foxing. soft vertical fold on rear panel near spine. Due to weight of book international orders cannot be accepted. Shelf 2E.
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Published by Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1963
ISBN 10: 0253337550ISBN 13: 9780253337559
Seller: Cider Creek Books, Newark, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Fine+. First Edition; Ninth Printing. Xiv + [402] pp. Unread copy. Pages as new.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 416 pages.
Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1994
ISBN 10: 0801847974ISBN 13: 9780801847974
Seller: Bluebird Books (RMABA, IOBA), Littleton, CO, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. An ex-library, first edition (so indicated by lack of subsequent printings on copyright pages). The eminent poet of ancient Rome, Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), wrote his narrative poem "Metamorphosis" in the first Century AD (CE). It attempts to tell the history of the world, from its origins through the reign of Julius Caesar. Translated freely into verse by David R. Slavitt, with his preface. --- In full blue cloth-covered boards with decorations & titling in gilt to cover; gilt-stamped spine titling. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- Evidence of former ownership by a public lending library includes stickers, tape, rubberstampings and neatly removed front free endpaper, otherwise a sound, bright, tightly-bound copy.; Ex-Library; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xii, 342, [4] pages.
Published by W.W. Norton, New York, 2004
ISBN 10: 0393058107ISBN 13: 9780393058109
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st edition. 8vo, 597 pp., Translated & with notes by Charles Martin; introduction by Bernard Knox.
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Published by Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1968
ISBN 10: 0571083102ISBN 13: 9780571083107
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. line drawings by Diana Reynell (illustrator). 1st Edition. Firmly bound, illustrated, laminated cream card boards. Tears on back end papers along the base. Slight creases on the last few pages. No jacket. Introduction and notes are in English, main text in Latin.
Published by Penguin, 1955
ISBN 10: 0140440585ISBN 13: 9780140440584
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Book First Edition
Condition: New. Focuses on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create a series of narrative poems, ingeniously linked by the common theme of transformation. Translator(s): Innes, Mary M. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 276. . 1955. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .
Published by Knorton, NY, 2004
ISBN 10: 0393058107ISBN 13: 9780393058109
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
First printing. 8vo, pp. xxvi, 597. Notes, list of persons, places and personifications. Paper over boards. Book revue and letter from publisher to William Jay Smith laid in; owner's name on flyleaf. Almost as new in dj.
Published by Harcourt Brace, 1993, 1993
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition, first printing From the library of the poet William Matthews. Very close to fine and bright in like attractive dust jacket with trifle bleed to the inside dust jacket, unseen on the outside. Nothing at all offensive. Very attractive volume, tall and bold with clean text and gift quality.
Published by Paderborn, Schöningh,, 1873
Book First Edition
8°, Halblederband der Zeit. 1. Aufl. X, 174 S. Lateinischer Originaltext und deutscher Anmerkungsapperat. Buchrücken leicht eingerissen, Name und Notiz auf Vorsatz, Vorsätze stärker, wenige Seiten etwas fleckig, sonst schönes Ex. la Gewicht in Gramm: 0.
Published by Everyman Library, New York, 2013
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. First Edition Thus. First Everyman edition, issued as Everyman #358. Translated by Allen Mandelbaum with an Introduction by J.C. McKeown. A Very Fine copy in tan gray cloth, in a Very Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 539pp. with Afterword by the Translator. Q13393.
Published by Indiana University Press, 1983
ISBN 10: 0253200016ISBN 13: 9780253200013
Seller: the good news resource, Park Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 43rd printing, fine, like new.
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Published by Harcourt Brace, 1993
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 4to, half cloth. Jacket a trifle bumped at head of spine. This heavy book may require extra shipping charges, not available for overseas sales.
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000
ISBN 10: 0521556201ISBN 13: 9780521556200
Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 2000. vii, 252pp, 2 maps. Latin text, commentary, notes etc. "This volume presents the Latin text, with an Introduction and full commentary, of Book XIII of the Roman poet Ovid's long work Metamorphoses. It discusses in detail Ovid's treatment of his sources and sets out the ways in which he adapted earlier literature as material for his novel enterprise. Guidance is offered on points of language and style, and the Introduction treats in general terms the themes of metamorphosis and the structure of the poem as a whole." Book in excellent condition with no inscriptions.
Published by NY: Norton (2004)., 2004
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. xxvi + 597 pp w/notes. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Introduction by Bernard Knox. Promotional flyer laid in.
Published by Harcourt, Inc, San Diego, 1995
ISBN 10: 0156001268ISBN 13: 9780156001267
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Softcover. First Edition Thus; Tenth Printing. Very Good in wraps. Occassional dogeared pages and margin notes throughout. Foxing on bottom text block edge. Small open tears on spine heel. Creasing on panel corners. ; 576 pages.
Published by Faber and Faber, 24, Russell Square, London WC1, 1997
ISBN 10: 0571191037ISBN 13: 9780571191031
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. First impression of the first paperback edition. Cover illustration: Narcissus at the Source, a book illumination for "Roman de la Rose" by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, courtesy of Biblioteque Nationale, Paris and AKG Photo, London. ***Near fine in illustrated glossy card covers. The covers are clean and unmarked - with two publisher's promotional stickers on the front cover: 'Whitbread Book of the Year 97' and 'Whitbread Poetry Award 97'. Edges of covers just slightly rubbed and creased. The spine colour is slightly faded. Light vertical reading crease to the spine. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No creases or tears. ***264 pages including Glossary of Names and Places at the back of the book. 198mm x 128mm. ***"A breathtaking book --- to compare his versions with the Latin is to be awestruck again and again by the range and ingenuity of his poetic intelligence --- he rescues the old gods and goddesses from the classical dictionaries and gives them back their terror. There should be a copy of his book in every school." - John Carey, Sunday Times (Review quote taken from the back cover) ***A first impression of the first paperback edition, in near fine collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.