Prescott, Orville, ed. — The Undying Past

Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Stated First Edition, and exceedingly scarce in the trade. Brick-red cloth over boards, distinct gilt lettering to front cover, rubbed gilt lettering to spine. An exceedingly useful survey, a reader, of ancient Greece and ancient Rome. Short contributions also by the former owner of the book, the classicist Peter Morris Green, who passed away recently at the age of 99. His "The Death of Pericles" joins Naomi Mitchison, "Plowing Eve," Mary Renault, "News From Syracuse," Robert Graves' "Claudius' Triumph," Rudyard Kipling's "On the Great Wall," Sigrid Undset's "The Black Death" and several score other classics by scholars and novelists such as Hope Muntz, Helen Waddell, Jay Williams, Edith Simon, Leo Tolstoy, Conrad Richter, C.S. Forester, Leo Tolstory, Joseph COnrad, Thomas Wolfe, and many others. [6], 7-623 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good