T E LAWRENCE: Odyssey of Homer Translated from the Greek

by LAWRENCE, T.E.], HOMER

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The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek by T.E. Shaw (Colonel T.E. Lawrence) [substituted with 'Lawrence of Arabia' on the dustwrapper] Author: [LAWRENCE, T.E.], HOMER Title: The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek by T.E. Shaw (Colonel T.E. Lawrence) [substituted with 'Lawrence of Arabia' on the dustwrapper] Publication: London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1935 (first UK trade edition)/ 1932 Description: Octavo (231 × 157 mm), [xii], 327 pages with a two-colour title vignette plus endpaper maps. Blue cloth blocked in gilt; top edge gilt, others uncut; covers very slightly marked and rubbed; a couple of trifling spots of foxing; ownership details in ink and pencil on the front free endpaper; an excellent copy with the very good dustwrapper (a little torn and sunned, with a few small chips). 'Lawrence felt strongly that a long series of translations (his own is the 28th English version) had overlaid Homer's strength and directness of narrative with a veneer of literature, and he was at great pains to restore its lost vitality' (from the dustwrapper blurb). This prose translation was first published in 1932, with limited and trade editions in America and a limited edition only in Britain. We currently have two issues of this first UK trade edition in stock: (a) slightly taller and wider, with no endpaper maps; and (b) slightly shorter and narrower, printed on whiter paper with a cancel title leaf, endpaper maps, and with Lawrence's name added to t

• Publisher: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press
• Year: 1935
• Condition: Good

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