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Sophokles, Women of Trachis.

Stock Code 110465

New York, New Directions [James Laughlin], 1957

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One of 3000 copies printed. First American edition of Pound's translation of Sophocles' Women of Trachis, a Greek tragedy considered by Pound to represent 'the highest peak of Greek sensibility registered in any of the plays that have come down to us...'

First American edition, first impression; 8vo; portrait frontispiece, slight offsetting to title, small mark to front free endpaper, Markham bookplate to front pastedown; publisher's black cloth, silver lettering to spine, with the unclipped dust-jacket, slightly toned and marked, one or two short closed tears to top edge, else very good.

Gallup A72b.
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Sophokles, Women of Trachis.

POUND, Ezra.

Stock code: 110465

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