Guy Davenport

Eclogues

North Point Press, 1981. 8vo, quarter khaki cloth over blue buckram boards, gilt titles, 238pp. First Edition. Inscribed by Davenport to the front flyleaf. Unclipped dust jacket (15.00) with mild rubbing to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper, unfortunate damp stain to text block bleeding over to edges of endpapers, moderate rippling to pages. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Eight stories by the Kentucky writer, critic and polymath, based on classical mythology and lore of the Western Canon. A still serviceable copy in mylar.

Price: $35.00