The Publication Committee; Leatham, John, text editor — Greece Books and Writers

Athens, Greece, National Book Centre of Greece / Ministry of Culture, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Scarce in the trade, no copies currently available in the U.S. on-line currently. The warm gift inscription at first free endpaper denotes the item having belonged to Elizabeth Boleman-Herring, a noted writer, poet, translator, friend to and of Anais Nin and a philhellene of longstanding. Published in 2001 by the Ethniko Kentro Vivliou, of Athens, Greece. Designed by Stavros Petsopoulos, and printed at the Dionysis Despo Topoulos Lithography in Athens. Heavy black card-stock wraps, silver lettering to cover, with heavy dark burgundy card-stock wraps thereover, in gate-fold, black lettering to front cover and spine. Brilliant interior, clean and unmarked. Various texts edited by John Leatham. Foreword by Evangelos Venizelos, the Ministry for Culture, with Christos G. Lazos offering a Preface, and then the Publication Committee, a brief Introduction. Well illustrated in black-and-white, duotone and full-color. Double-column texts for ease of reading. A massively helpful reference work for students and historians of ancient, modern and contemporary Greece. 259 pp. and with full notes, bibliography and index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New