art greece

Hardcover. Geneva, Albert Skira, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean, bright copy with tipped-in color plates throughout, 193 pages.

Softcover. Athens, Greek Ministry of Culture, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 183 pages. Richly illustrated catalog for an exhibition in Washington on art from the Geometric, Orientalizing and Archaic periods. With a preface by Melina Mercouri. The chapters are: life in early Greece; the alphabet of history; the art of the Greek dark ages; geometric art; chart of vase shapes; vase painting; terracottas; bronzes; sculpture in stone. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 251 pages in color. With bold imagery and an ear tuned to the music of Homers epic poem, Gareth Hinds reinterprets the ancient classic as its never been told before. Retells, in graphic novel format, Homer's epic tale of Odysseus, the ancient Greek hero who encounters witches and other obstacles on his journey home after fighting in the Trojan War. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title page. "Poet, writer, artist, and naturalist Emily Hiestand takes us to four far-flung corners of the globe - to Orkney in northernmost Scotland, to the Greek Islands, to Belize (formerly British Honduras), and to the Florida Everglades - and gives us some of the most sensual, learned, and witty writing about place to appear in years." Clean copy.