Wild Women of the Odyssey

Julien Hyer [Julien Capers Hyer] / Drawings by H. E. Lake

Verlag: The Joli Press, 1931

Beschreibung

Revised Version. Signed and numbered in a limited edition of 200, this being copy 30/200. Boards in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on front cover. Lightly worn at extremities. Light pencil notations on front free endpaper and rear pastedown, else clean. [32] pages. In this short book of wry verse, Eumaeus gives the author the low-down on Odysseus and his encounters with Pallas Athene, Calypso, Nausicaa, Circe, the Sirens, and Scylla and Charybdis. ''Why didn't Odysseus a wife for thee provide, / that she might live forever by your side?'' / ''Nay, sir, a wife he never for me found / For no one had a chance with him around.'' Julien Capers Hyer (1894-1974), a native of South Carolina and graduate of Georgetown University. After serving in the First World War he was elected to the Texas state senate and for fifteen years was a Dallas County judge. He also served as a judge advocate under General Patton in WWII and participated in the Nuremberg trials. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 015172

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Wild Women of the Odyssey

Verlag: The Joli Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 1931

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good