Graves, Robert

THE GREEK MYTHS [Two volumes]

Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books, 1955. First American Edition. Octavos, 2 volumes. In Very Good condition, Housed in a Very Good minus publisher's slipcase. Bound in publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering to front boards and spines. Slipcase with some light shelfwear, some light fraying to cloth at opening. Top edge of text blocks dyed black. Interiors clean. With two maps, one folding in the rear of volume 2. This Hardcover issue is surprisingly scarce on the market. Shelved case 8 1/2.

1407868

Shelved Dupont Bookstore

Price: $600

NOTES

Higginson & Williams,; A72b: "3,000 copies published in 1955 in a slipcase without dust-jacket." There were also 35,000 copies in wraps with the same publication information. The true first edition was published months earlier in London.