The Iliad
New York: Doubleday & co./Anchor Press, 1974. First edition thus. Royal octavo, original black cloth boards with gilt illustration of a Homer-like poet figure playing a lyre (from a design by Hans Erni) on the upper board, gilt title spine, b&w illus, pp 594. The dustjacket is faded to the spine and has a small chip lower corner, very small chips base of spine. D.j. not price-clipped. An ink stamp with the Doubleday colophon, on the front free endpaper, states employee sale. No other marks. Pages lightly and evenly toned. Very good condition in good d.j., repaired and protected.
First edition of the American poet's celebrated translation of the Iliad, which followed his acclaimed translation of the Odyssey. "The triumph of Fitzgerald's version lies in the fact that it is not merely a translation, but rather a re-creation of the original action as conceived by by the original poet. Written in fresh and flexible blank verse, the Iliad is both lyrical and dramatic. It carries the reader along until he feels himself a part of the Homeric world." (Dustjacket). Item #106593
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