Oedipus King, Signed (11 results)

Reprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. pp. 1-19. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With dedication of the author. - Author's name underlined on cover, slightly bumped, otherwise very good and clean. - ABSTRACT: This paper examines the different treatments of Teiresias in Sophocles and Senecas Oedipus the King. Sophocles fashions his Teiresias as a grumpy curmudgeon, gallingly reluctant to share his knowledge, as is expected of a seer. His unseerlike behavior serves two key functions. On the dramatic plane, it creates and sustains the dramatic conflict in a plot in which nothing much happens until the very end. Thematically, it highlights the limitations of human knowledge, which cannot alleviate suffering in a world in which destiny is in the hands of the gods. Senecas Teiresias is a much reduced figure, without a character, in the sense of a consistent set of traits or behaviors. Rather he appears in three unconnected depictions, in each of which he is differently presented. In his main depiction, in the divination scene, he is a mild-mannered, unimposing seer, eager to do his job but lacking the full knowledge attributed to his Sophoclean precursor. His function is to serve as master of the rite, who directs the divination and makes it dramatically compelling. In both plays, Teiresias may be seen as a representative of the gods. Sophocles depiction highlights and protests the cruelty of the gods, Senecas projects a more resigned and accepting attitude. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 269. Printed waps, a very good copy. Inscribed the book to poet William Jay Smith and his wife: "For Mill and Sonia ~ | I began translating Greek | plays at Amherst, with | my left hand, and now | in old age discover | how sinisterly left | handed I've become! | With admiration | for the work of | both your hands | Bob Bagg | 4 Aug 06" Wikipedia: "Robert Bagg (born 1935, New Jersey) is an American poet and translator. He has published several volumes of poetry and has authored critical studies of Sappho and Catallus. In addition to his other literary work, Bagg taught English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (19651996), serving as Department Chair (198692).".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed & inscribed by Stephen Spencer to the previous owner on the half title page. 2nd printing. Hardbound in dust jacket. Minor wear & curling to dust jacket edges, otherwise very good. Signed by Author(s).

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Demetrios Galanis (illustrator). 1st Edition. Black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to the spine and gilt lettering/design to the spine. This is copy #876 of 1500 in this special Limited Edition. This copy is FINE in a NEAR FINE slipcase. Illustrated. Pictorial EPs. Gift BP of William Perlberg ( 1900- 1968), noted Hollywood Producer of such award winning films as The Country Girl, State Fair, Miracle on 34th Street, among others, to Occidental College. Unmarked, crisp, and tight. Exterior is rich. Gilt is bright. Brown slipcase has a tiny nick on one corner. Otherwise, superb. Engravings by Demetrios Galanis. Designed by Jan van Krimpen at the Printing house of Joh. Enschede . SIGNED by Demetrios Galanis . Exquisite. Lovely provenance. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket. Demetrios Galanis (illustrator). #528/1500cc, signed by illustrator Demetrios Galanis. In worn slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Demetrios Galanis (illustrator). Limited Edition. Quarto. 161pp Black cloth with gilt lettering. Illustrated with wood engravings by Demetrois Galanis. This is copy #684of 1500 copies and is signed by artist. Housed in slipcase. Spine is sun toned. A few scuffs to the slipcase. The Greek text facing English translation by Francis Storr.

Giacomo Mansù (illustrator). DESCRIPTION: Translated by Edward Watling. Small folio 15 x 10 7/8 inches ,380 x 275 mm, (sheets), 96 pages. No. 41 of 105 copies printed on Magnani di Pescia mould-made paper, total edition of 114. Contents consist of groupings of interleaved folded sheets stacked loosely within a binding of gilt-lettered green morocco over creme-coloured Linson paper over boards with a bas-relief medallion of Oedipus's head on front cover designed by Manzù. Printed on the handpress by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni for the Racolin Press, New York. Illustrated with seven full-page etchings by Manzù. Binding with loose folded sheets housed in a clamshell box with paper labels on front cover and spine. Signed by Manzù in the colophon. Binding protected with an archival clear Grafix Dura Lar dust wrapper._____ CONDITION: Folded sheets, binding and clamshell box all in fine condition. No markings, ex-libris, etc._____ DISCUSSION: After two failed attempts at a collaboration in which Manzù rejected the poems under consideration for his illustrations, Mardersteig noticed Mansù's sketches for costumes and decor for Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, which included "a magnificent metre-high relief of the head of Oedipus." Mardersteig then asked Mansù to illustrate an edition of Sophocles's tragedy using the high-relief image to become the frst etching as well as the relief image on the front binding cover. This is one of the finest Officina Bodoni editions and one of the scarcest._____ NOTE: International shipping cost using USPS International Priority EXPRESS Mail with tracking to most locations in the United Kingdom and Europe is $100 U.S. dollars. Shipping cost to more distant locations may incur additional cost.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Copy 81 of a total edition of 1500. Translation from Greek verse to English by Francis Storr. Introduction by Thornton Wilder. Wood-engravings by Demetrios Galanis. Signed by Galanis. Excellent copy in publisher's slipcase.

Hard/slipcase. Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. #1219/1500, signed by Demetrios Galanis. Green Apple Books and Music, Publisher Weekly's Bookstore of the Year 2014, has been San Francisco's favorite independent bookseller since 1967! Shipping costs on oversize / international orders will reflect actual shipping charges and may be more than quoted by ABE. We will need to contact you with true shipping costs and ask for authorization before adjusting cost.

First Edition. A version by Stephen Spender. Pp. 200(last blank); post 8vo; dark blue boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, lightly foxed, backstrip slightly faded; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the endpapers slightly offset, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Faber & Faber, London, 1985. First edition. *With an inked inscription from Spender to fellow poet and literary critic Martin Seymour Smith (dated Dec 9 85) on the half-title page. Signed.

Condition: As New. CHAU3662? This is a superb opportunity to secure this stunning large 10" x 8" hand signed photo for epic actor Richard Johnson (husband of Kim Novak) who has personally signed the souvenir where his signature rests perfectly accompanying his portrait in mint condition & undedicated?too. You wont source better.He supported Anthony Quinn and Rita Hayworth in The Rover (1967), again directed by Young. He starred in another James Bond-type spy film, Danger Route (1967) for director Seth Holt. He announced he had formed his own company and would star in An Alibi for a Playboy but it was not made. Johnson was Creon in Oedipus the King (1968) with Christopher Plummer, then starred in the spy film A Twist of Sand (1968). He was a Roman officer in Columna (1968) and Horatio Nelson in Emma Hamilton (1968), with Mich???le Mercier. He reprised his role as Drummond in Some Girls Do (1969). He played Rembrandt for British TV in 1969 and was Cassius in Charlton Heston's version of Julius Caesar (1970). He did The Fifth Day of Peace (1970) with Franco Nero, Hamlet (1970) with Richard Chamberlain, The Beloved (1971) with Raquel Welch, A Man About a Dog (1972), A Marriage (1972) and?I Want to Marry Your Son (1973).