CANDAULES' WIFE AND OTHER OLD STORIES

by Emily James Putnam

$45 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. Octavo, original blue cloth stamped in black, gold and blind, fore-edge untrimmed, decorated endpapers. First edition. Five tales extracted from the historical writings of Herodotus and rewritten by Putnam. Emily James Putnam 1865-1944 , American author and educator, was dean and president of Barnard College. A fine copy in good printed dust jacket lacking the spine panel.

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