[WYETH, Newell Convers, illustrator]. The Odyssey of Homer. George Herbert Palmer, translator. 1929. LIMITED EDITION. SIGNED BY WYETH AND PALMER.
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[WYETH, Newell Convers (1882-1945), illustrator]. The Odyssey of Homer. George Herbert Palmer, translator. Cambridge: The Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929.
Small 4to. 16 color tipped-in plates by Wyeth, each with printed tissue guards, full-page facsimile of a letter from Palmer; WITH THE EXTRA SUITE OF 16 PLATES IN ORIGINAL ENVELOPE. Original pigskin-backed turquoise cloth stamped in gilt, green leather lettering-piece gilt, uncut; publisher's presentation box with printed cover label (light wear to extremities, splitting at flaps).
LIMITED EDITION, number 495 of 500 copies, SIGNED BY WYETH AND THE TRANSLATOR, from a total edition of 550.
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