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The Golden Ass
by Apuleius, Lucius (Translated by William Adlington)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near VG
- Seller
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Alliance, Ohio, United States
Item Price
€23.62€11.81
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About This Item
NY: Hogarth Press. Near VG. ND. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Undated but circa 1924 Hogath Press edition bound in green cloth with gold spine lettering. Illustrated by Phillip Hagreen, edited and Intro by F.J. Harvey Darton. Tall 8vo size, 359 pages. About VG copy. Cloth covers have been near moisture and show some molting to the cloth at the bottom corners and along the spine. Inside is clean, tight and unm arked with some pages still unopened. In a Good dj that has a 3cm chip to the top edge of the front panel, two tiny chips to the head of the spine and some dust staining on the rear panel. .
Synopsis
The Metamorphoses of Apuleius, which St. Augustine referred to as The Golden Ass (Asinus aureus), is the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety. The protagonist of the novel may in fact be the author himself. His first name is revealed to be Lucius; at the end of the novel, he is revealed to be from Madaurus, the hometown of Apuleius himself.
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- Bookseller
- Dearly Departed Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37175
- Title
- The Golden Ass
- Author
- Apuleius, Lucius (Translated by William Adlington)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near VG
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Hogarth Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- ND
- Keywords
- LITERATURE, ILLS. LIMITED
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About Dearly Departed Books
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- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- ND
- no publisher's date given
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...