Minor and sporadic foxing on very first pages. Fly leaf inscribed by previous owner and dated April 1927. Hinges starting, split along gutter on front endpaper. Some age-wear on binding with rubbing along joints and edges. Each color illustration is protected with a captioned tissue-guard. This work is profusely illustrated with 12 b/w in-text illustrations and 10 full-page color illustrations (including frontispiece). In this volume he covers the myths of: Circe's Palace Dragon's Teeth Jason and the Golden Fleece Theseus and the Minotaur Proserpina, Ceres, Pluto, and the Pomegrante Seeds Antaeus and the Pygmies. In this exquisite children book, Nathaniel Hawthorne undertook the project of re-writing some of the most famous of the ancient Greek myths. Color frontispiece protected with a captioned tissue-guard. Original blue cloth with color pastedown on front cover and gold lettering on spine and front board. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1921.
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