![]() ![]() * A long-awaited literary event, Robert Fitzgerald's translation of "The Aeneid" took its place beside his "Iliad" & "Odyssey", both acknowledged masterpieces in their own right. ![]() SPLENDID: CLASSIC, INDISPENSABLE: FINE virtually AS-NEW copy of the true Stated First Edition (First printing) of Robert Fitzgerald's masterpiece of translation, unusual in its nearly impeccable condition BUT MARRED ONLY by neatly price-clipped inside-top-front flyleaf & by name & "from" inscription at top-right inside-front end-paper (all else IMPECCABLE): FINE price-clipped mylar-protected gloss-laminated jacket superbly ELEGANT in presentation featuring illustrated front panel displaying Virgil from the Della Valle relief on the garden wall of the Villa Medici) & w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges & cut-page-style deckle side-edging, NEW black linen-over-boards cover w/ EXCELLENT NEW edges & corners & medallion of Virgil stamp-engraved black-on-black at top center of front panel w/ titles in elegantly spare silver-stamping on spine, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & crimson & black-checked cloth headbands at spine-caps, Apart from inscription cited above IMPECCABLE strikingly lavender card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior BEAUTIFULLY printed on SUPERB unblemished silk-finish archival paper * 6.50" x 9.50 x 1.26", 0.92 kg, x+402 (412) pp. ![]()
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