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Author: **
Title: The Songs of Sappho: Including the Recent Egyptian Discoveries
Place: Lexington, KY
Publisher: Maxwelton Company
Date: 1925
Item # : 208555
Sale Number   424
Lot Number   51
Sale Name    
The Library of Roger Wagner
Sale Date   03/18/2010
Sale Time   1pm PST
Low Estimate   $ 200
High Estimate   $ 300
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Description:
xiv, 436 pp. Translated into rimed verse by Marion Mills Miller; text translated into prose by David M. Robinson. Illusrated with 10 plates from photographs of artifacts and text. 9½x6½, cloth-backed paper over boards, facsimile vignette of Mytelene coin on covers, original slipcase. No. 232 of 500 copies of the Author's Autographed Edition.
Signed by Miller and Robinson at the limitation statement. Perhaps the best scholarly study on Sappho, celebrated muse of Lesbos.
Condition:
Cracked, tape repair at edges of slipcase; corners of volume and spine a touch rubbed; front hinge cracked; else a near fine volume in a good slipcase.
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