Gage, Nicholas — Eleni

New York, Random House, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A savage war, a mother's love, and a son's revenge: a personal story," an absolutely searing, bracing memoir of a New York Times and Wall Street Journal journalist-columnist's attempt to find his mother's killer post-W.W.I.I. but nearly twenty years later. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "2" in the "number" line, as per Random House's penchant. Big, tall Imperial octavo hardcover format exemplar, bound in two-tone, black paper over boards, black cloth-backed, reddish-copper design (author's initials) to front cover, same to spine. Plain white endpapers, previous owner's ink-stamp inside front flap, along bottom edge. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, now moderately worn edges after my reading. [viii], [1-2], 3-470, [1] pp. plus an author note and a map of Lia village. Laid in is Julietta Harvey's extensive review of the book from the London Review of Books, she then having been a Professor at Cambridge University and herself Greek, a review that is photocopied but that is signed "J" ("Julietta?") and notes "a different slant," maybe having been sent to Phylactopoulos . . . then is included a penned note from the stationery of Phylactopoulos, 8.III.1984 and noting the previous owner Peter Morris Green's excellent review in the Times Literary Supplement. Phylactopoulos remembers also the occasion of attending "a grand dinner party" at "the GB in honor of the author, Nicholas Gage, who spoke after dinner and who thinks that Peter's review was excellent." A fine exemplar of an outstanding work of non-fiction and with extraordinary provenance. From the personal library of the noted English historian of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, Professor Peter Morris Green two of whose final books will be published by the University of California Press in the Fall of 2025. He passed away at age 99 while working on a final translation of the works of Herodotus, his favorite historian.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Very Good,