Rare Vintage 'Mythology' Edith Hamilton, Illustrated by Steele Savage, Copyright 1940, Third Printing 1943, Little,Brown & Company, Boston
There has long been a need for the stories of ancient mythology written to appeal to the twentieth-century mind. Edith Hamilton's orderly and lucid presentation of Greek, Roman and Norse mythology promises the casual reader and the avid student a sound, modern and adult key to the foundation stones of world literature.
She has bee a reteller of tales. She has blended and organized the sometimes conflicting myths of the early storytellers, molding them with vivid clarity.
This is a copper brown cloth hardcover edition copyright 1940, third printing 1943.
It has many black and white illustrations by Steele Savage.
It is in great condition no rips, tears, foxing or staining.
Solid, strong binding with minimal to no wear on edges, no dust jacket.
It measures 8 3/4" x 6" x 1 1/2"
Inside inscription of original owner 'Elizabeth McCafferty Stewart, August 5, 1943, Los Angeles'
Edith Hamilton was born of American parents in Dresden, Germany, and grew up in Indiana. Through the first quarter of the twentieth century she was the headmistress of the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore.
Upon retiring, she began to write about the civilizations of the ancient world and soon gained world renown as a classicist.
Her celebrated and bestselling books include Mythology, The Greek Way, The Roman Way, and The Echo of Greece.
She regarded as the high point of her life a 1957 ceremony in which King Paul of Greece named her an honorary citizen of Athens.
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