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Pindar. H.T. Wade-Gery & C.M. Bowra, translators. Pythian Odes. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928.

Price: US$23.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: limited to 1050 numbered copies; xlv, 165, [1] pp., original white cloth (hardcover), lacks the slipcase, covers lightly soiled, else very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.

Pindar. Pythian Odes. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1928.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Translated [with introductory material and commentaries] by H.T. Wade-Gery & C.M. Bowra; exquisite engravings by Stephen Gooden; ex-library copy; first free end page removed; white buckrum binding; beveled edges; gilt spine lettering; gilt top page edges; deckled side and bottom page edges; text pages clean, tight, and unmarked; a handsome little edition consisting of "1050 copies for sale in England by the Nonesuch Press," of which this is #340.

Seller: JP Books, Bradford, VT, U.S.A.

Pindar. Pythian Odes. Translated by H.T. Wade-Gery & C.M. Bowra. Decorations by Stephen Gooden.. London, Nonesuch Press, 1928, 1928.

Price: US$28.00 + shipping

Description: buckram, small octavo, limited #1411 of 1550. lacks slipcase, xlv, 165p. dated ink inscription on last leaf. VG/None

Seller: Juniper Point Books, Round Lake, NY, U.S.A.

(translated by H. T. Wade-Gery & C. M. Bowra). Pindar Pythian Odes. Nonesuch Press, London, 1928.

Price: US$32.49 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Slight wear and slight soiling to spine, covers and corners. ; With original boards. Vellum-bound. With decorative borders around pages. Foreedge and bottom edge deckled. ; 10x16x2 cm; 165 pages

Seller: Literary Cat Books, Machynlleth, Powys, WALES, United Kingdom

Pindar. Pythian odes. London, The Nonesuch Press, 1928.

Price: US$33.41 + shipping

Description: 1928, hardcover in slipcase, good copy, some wear to slipcase , in slipcase, good copy, some wear to slipcase , in slipcase, good copy, some wear to slipcase

Seller: Louis Tinner Bookshop, Rotterdam, ZH, Netherlands

H.T. Wade-Gery & C.M. Bowra. Pindar Pythian Odes. The Nonesuch Press, 1928.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardbound in clear mylar dust jacket, housed within publisher's slipcase. Limited edition #135/1050 in original . Age toning to end pages, otherwise very good.

Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.

Pindar. Pythian Odes. Nonesuch Press, London, 1928.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Description: 32mo. 165 pp. No. 537 of 1050 pp. White cloth binding, gilt lettering spine, top edge gilt, very good condition. (76724). Translated by H. t. Wade-Gery & C. M. Bowra.

Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.

Pindar. Pythian Odes. The Nonesuch Press, 1928.

Price: US$36.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Limited Edition, #238 of 1050 copies. Published London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. White cloth with gilt titles on spine. Top edge gilt. xlv, 165 pp. 4.25" x 6.5". Fore edge untrimmed. ~Very Good Condition. Please examine photos closely. Moderate wear, aging, soiling to covers. Binding is firm. Age toning to endpapers; o/w interior is age toned, with very limited mild soiling/spotting in margins. Local buyers are welcome to pick item up at our store in Rochester on Monroe Ave. Please ask any questions before purchase.

Seller: Before Your Quiet Eyes, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Pindar; H. T. Wade-Gery & C. M. Bowra (trans.). Pythian Odes. Nonesuch Press, 1928.

Price: US$38.15 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1928. Limited Edition. 165 pages. No dust jacket. White cloth with patterned slipcase. Number 322 of 1050 copies. Rough-cut pages. Missing front free endpaper. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown. Pages are bright and clear with light tanning to text block edges, pastedowns and rear free endpaper. Light cracking and creasing to gutters but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Slipcase is moderately scuffed and torn with visible splitting and chipping to joints.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

PINDAR. WADE-GREY, H. T. and BOWRA, C. M., translated by.. PINDAR PYTHIAN ODES. Translated by H. T. Wade-Grey and C. M. Bowra. This edition consists of 1050 copies for sale in England and 500 copies for sale in the United States. This is Number 1544.. The Nonesuch Press., London, 1928.

Price: US$38.99 + shipping

Description: Small 8vo. 4.25 x 6.25 inches. xlv + [i] + 165 + [1] pp. All text within decorative borders. Bound in original white buckram with bevelled edges to boards. Top edge gilt. A little wear to extremities, spine title no longer clearly visible and fly leaves browned; otherwise a very good title. Decorated by copperplate vignettes by A. Alexander and Son, including title and colophon pages. A limited private press edition of the twelve Pythian Odes of the late Archaic Greek lyric poet, Pindar (c.518-438 BC), born near Thebes. They celebrate the victors of the Pythian Games, held every four years at the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi. These were one of four Panhellenic games, the others being at Olympia, Corinth and Nemea, whose winners were also the subject of Pindaric odes. This edition includes an introduction, appendices and notes. Henry Theodore Wade-Grey (1888-1972) was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford, 1939-53. Cecil Maurice Bowra (1898-1971), another Oxford classicist served as Vice-Chancellor of the University, 1951-54 and was a leading Pindaric scholar. CLASSICS GREEK CLASSICS GREEK POETRY SPORT- ANCIENT CLASSICS

Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom

PINDAR [518 - 438 B.C.]. Pythian Odes, Translated By H. T. Wade-Gery & C. M. Bowra. Nonesuch Press, London, 1928.

Price: US$45.48 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: No 659 of a Limited Edition, xlv + 165pp, bound in white buckram, gilt lettered, gilt lettering faded on spine o/w very good condition, Nonesuch Press, London, 1928.

Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom

Pindar. Pindar: Pythian Odes. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1928.

Price: US$45.67 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Hardcover with slipcase in good condition. No jacket. Translated by H. T. Wade-Gery and C. M. Bowra. Number 475 of 1050 copies. Worn and torn edges of decorated slipcase are reinforced with tape. Boards, spine, pastedowns and endpapers are tanned and foxed. Previous owner's details penned on FEP. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW

Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom

PINDAR. Pythian Odes. , 1928.

Price: US$49.50 + shipping

Description: PINDAR. Pythian Odes. Translated by H. T. Wade-Gery & C. M. Bowra. Original cloth. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. 12mo. One of 1050 numbered copies. With copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden. Spine very lightly sunned, small bookplate, typed label about artist tipped onto front free endpaper, else near fine.

Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.

(Nonesuch Press). Pindar. PYTHIAN ODES. Translated by H. T. Wade-Gery and C. M. Bowra. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928., 1928.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. 1928. Very good. - Small octavo, light gray cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The top edge is gilt. There is light soiling & spotting to the covers & the spine is darkened. xiv & 165 pages plus colophon with the text printed within decorative frames in black. The gilt on the top edge is faded. The endpapers are darkened & there is an owner's blind stamp on the title. Engraved title & 2 copperplate vignettes by Stephen Gooden. Very good. Limited edition of 1,550 numbered copies.

Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.

PINDAR.. Pindar: Pythian Odes. Translated by H.T. Wade-Gery & C. M. Bowa.. London; The Nonesuch Press; 1928., 1928.

Price: US$50.39 + shipping

Description: Limited Edition; Cr. 12mo; pp. xlvi, 166,[2];title vignette, ruled page margins, top edge gilt, others uncut, original cream cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, original decorated slipcase, very good copy. This edition consists of 1050 numbered copies for sale in England and 500 copies for sale in the United States, this being copy 498.

Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia

Pindar. Pindar : Pythian Odes : Translated by H.T. Wade-Grey & C.M. Bowra. Nonesuch Press, 1928.

Price: US$51.98 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Number 1532 of a limited edition of 1550 copies. Publisher's full buckram binding, gilt lettered, t.e.g. Printed by Maclehose. Condition of the book is very good, an excellent, clean and sound copy in similar original slipcase. No inscriptions or bookplates. xlv + 165 pages. Dreyfus 53. Approx. size is 6" by 4". Illustrator: Stephen Gooden. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 27410.

Seller: Steve Liddle, ABA PBFA ILAB, Bristol, United Kingdom

Pindar. Translation by H. T. Wade-Gery & C. M. Bowra. Pythian Odes by Pindar. The Nonesuch Press., London., 1928.

Price: US$54.58 + shipping

Description: Very good+ in like slipcase. Minor wear to slipcase corners. Minor toning to endpapers.

Seller: Sapience Bookstore, Hexham, United Kingdom

Pindar [Nonesuch Press]. Pythian Odes : Translated by H. T. Wade - Gery & C. M. Bowra. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1928.

Price: US$57.50 + shipping

Description: London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Near Fine condition in a Very Good slipcase. A square, tight copy with just a touch of finger soil on the cover. Sharp corners. The publisher's patterned brown paper slipcase is entirely unbroken with only light rubbing at the edges. Pages are creamy white, clean, crisp and unmarked. NO owner's name or bookplate. This is number 1423 of a edition limited to 1550 hand-numbered copies. 4" wide by 6.25" tall. Translated by H. T. Wade-Gery & C. M. Bowra. Composed in Monotype Bodoni and printed on Pannekoek mould-made paper. Illustrated with three engravings by Stephen Gooden. Bound in the original cream buckram, stamped in shiny gold on the spine. Top edge gilt. Complete with the slipcase. From the colophon: "The text has been printed by R. Maclehose & Co., Ltd., the University Press, Glasgow, The copperplate engravings by A. Alexander & Son, London: The whole under the care of Francis Meynell." According to Professor Hugh Lloyd-Jones: "This was one of the first renderings of Greek verse -- certainly one of the first by academic persons -- to throw off the worn-out trappings of sub-Tennysonian traditionalist verse. It has a deserved success " Dreyfus #53 [in A HISTORY OF THE NONESUCH PRESS with descriptive catalogue by David McKitterick, Simon Rendall & John Dreyfus]. First Nonesuch Press edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good slipcase. Illus. by Gooden, Stephen (engravings). xlv, 167pp.

Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.

Pindar. Pythian Odes. Nonesuch Press, 1928.

Price: US$58.48 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Translated by H.T. Wade-Gerey and C.M. Bowra. White buckram. Nice copy in rubbed slip-case. One of 1,500 copies, this one unnumbered. Engravings by Stephen Gooden.

Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom

Pindar; Wade-Gery, H.T; Bowra, C.M. (translated). Pinder Pythian Odes. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1928.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: This book is in very good condition for its age with tight binding and clean text. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.

Pindar. PYTHIAN ODES. With Slipcase.. Nonesuch Press, London, 1928.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 165 pages; Cream colored boards with a bit of darkening to spine. Slipcase with minor rubbing.

Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.

Pindar; H. T. Wade-Green; C. M. Bowra. Pindar Pythian Odes. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1928.

Price: US$84.47 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A very smart Nonesuch limited edition of the collected victory odes by Pindar, a nice set in the original slipcase. A Nonesuch limited edition, limited to 1,050 copies, of which this is numbered 670.In the original publisher's slipcase, in a very good indeed condition.A collection of the Pythian victory odes by Pindar. The Pythian Games was one of the four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece, held in Delphi every four years in honour of Apollo. Pindar was an Ancient Greek poet from Thebes. He is one of the nine canonical lyric poets of Ancient Greece, with his works being the best preserved of the nine.With copperplate engravings throughout by A. Alexander & Son.This edition was translated by H. T. Wade-Grey and C. M. Bowra.The Nonesuch Press specialised in limited edition and private press. They were founded by Francis Meynell, his second wife, Vera Mendel, and their friend, David Garnett. Their aspiration was for their publications to be aligned with the same aesthetic standards as the private press movement. They were unusual as they used a small Albion press to design the books, but had them printed by commercial printers. In doing so, books with the quality of a fine-press were produced, but available to a wider audience at lower prices. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original slipcase. Externally, smart, with only a couple of light marks, as is usual with a white cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Slipcase is smart with very light edge wear and a couple of small marks. Near Fine

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Pinder. Pythian Odes. The Nonesuch Press, 1928.

Price: US$97.79 + shipping

Description: Pythian Odes by Pindar translated by H T Wade-Gery and C M Bowra. Limited edition #1044 of 1550 copies printed by the Nonesuch Press in London 1928. Fine cloth, uncut art paper, and linen slipcase.Clean pages, tight binding, cloth boards clean, slipcase clean and crisp Clean pages, tight binding, clot

Seller: HGG Books, Slingerlands, NY, U.S.A.

Pindar. Pythian Odes. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1928.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: Limited Edition. Hardcover. Translated by H. T. Wade-Gery & B.C.M. Bowra. Light toning at spine, minor glue toning at endpages, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Slipcase shows light shelf/edge wear, else tight and clean. Cream buckram boards, gilt lettering; pastepaper patterned slipcase. 16mo. 165pp plus colophon. Numbered limited edition, this being 70 of 1550 (1050 in UK and 500 for US).

Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.

Pindar. Pythian Odes. Translated by H.T. Wade-Gery and C.M. Bowra. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1928.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: No. 1057 of 1050 copies thus. Head- and tail-pieces by Stephen Gooden. xlv, [i], 165, [3] pp. 12mo. Cream linen over beveled boards, t.e.g., patterned paper slipcase. Bookplate of O.D. Winterbottom. Mild water damage to slipcase, some minor soiling to boards. Near fine Head- and tail-pieces by Stephen Gooden. xlv, [i], 165, [3] pp. 12mo

Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.

PINDAR.; Gery & Bowra.. Pythian Odes.. , 1928.

Price: US$475.00 + shipping

Description: PINDAR. Pythian Odes. Translated by H.T. Wade-Grey and C.M. Bowra. [xlvi], 165, [3] pp. Illustrated with an engraved title-page and 2 copper-plate engravings by Stephen Gooden. 12mo., bound in recent half red morocco, matching silk covered boards. London: Nonesuch Press, 1928. A beautifully printed edition of Pindar's writings in honor of notable personages and winners at the Pythian games. Limited Edition of 1550 copies printed in Monotype Bodoni on Pannekoek mould-made paper by R. MacLehose & Co. under the supervision of Francis Meynell. Fine copy. Dreyfus 53.

Seller: Ursus Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.