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Lysistrata
by ARISTOPHANES
- Used
- near fine
- Condition
- near fine
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Odyssey, 1967. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Aubrey Beardsley. 8 full page black & white erotic illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Slim 4to, light blue paper covered boards, printed paper label on front cover, lavender cloth clamshell case (faded, bumped and frayed). New York: Odyssey Publications, 1967. Limited edition. A fine copy in a good box -- well worn but has done its job protecting the book.<br/> <br/> Number 5 of 515 numbered copies. This edition reproduces in facsimile the 1896 edition (100 copies) and is printed on handmade paper.<br/> <br/>
Synopsis
Aristophanes was born, probably in Athens, c. 449 BC and died between 386 and 380 BC. Little is known about his life, but there is a portrait of him in Plato's Symposium . He was twice threatened with prosecution in the 420s for his outspoken attacks on the prominent politician Cleon, but in 405 he was publicly honored and crowned for promoting Athenian civic unity in The Frogs . Aristophanes had his first comedy produced when he was about twenty-one, and wrote forty plays in all. The eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes are published in the Penguin Classics series as The Birds and Other Plays , Lysistrata and Other Plays , and The Wasps/The Poet and the Women/The Frogs .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Argosy Book Store
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 246707
- Title
- Lysistrata
- Author
- ARISTOPHANES
- Illustrator
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited
- Publisher
- Odyssey
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1967
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Argosy Book Store
Biblio member since 2004
New York, New York
About Argosy Book Store
We are a large retail store, with 6 floors of out-of-print and rare books, (including, Americana, modern first editions, history of medicine and science), antique maps and prints, autograph manuscripts, letters & signatures.
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