{
  "full": "\n**HOMER. THE ODYSSEY. 1929–1971. (ML 167)**  \n\n#### 187.1a. First printing (1929)  \n\n[within double rules] THE | ODYSSEY OF HOMER | [rule] | DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE | BY | S. H. BUTCHER AND A. LANG | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [i–iv] v–xxiv, 1–383 [384]. [1–12]16 [13]12.  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note D5; [iii] title; [iv] *First Modern Library Edition* | 1929 | [short double rule]; v–ix PREFACE; also on p. ix: PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION; [x] poem signed: A. L.; xi–xxiv INTRODUCTION | Composition and Plot of the Odyssey; 1–383 text; also on p. 383: poem signed: A. L.; [384] blank.  \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Fall 1929*)  \n\n*Jacket B:* Pictorial in moderate blue (182) and black on yellow paper with illustration of Odysseus standing at the bow of a boat; title and borders in moderate blue, other lettering in black. Signed: Staloff. (*Fall 1931*)  \n\n> Front flap:\nOf the books of antiquity which adorn the Modern Library series, none is in greater favor than Homer’s *The Odyssey* and its companion volume, *The Iliad* (No. 166). The immortal epic of the ten-year wanderings of Ulysses remains as vivid to the contemporary reader as it was when first recited to Homer’s enthralled audience many centuries before the Christian era. The Modern Library edition of the Butcher and Lang prose translation has been adopted by many leading universities as the standard text of this classic. (*Fall 1936*)  \n\nButcher and Lang translation originally published in U.S. by the Macmillan Co., 1879. ML edition printed from plates made from a new typesetting. Published December 1929. *WR* not found. First printing: Not ascertained. Superseded spring 1962 by Rees translation (187.2).  \n\nSee 186.1a for information about the selection of the Butcher and Lang translation.  \n\n*The Odyssey* ranked in the middle of the second quarter of ML titles during the 18-month period, May 1942–October 1943, slightly below *The Iliad*. It was near the top of the second quarter during the 12-month period November 1951–October 1952, four titles below *The Iliad*.  \n\n#### 187.1b. Title page reset (1941)  \n\nTHE ODYSSEY | OF HOMER | DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE BY | S. H. BUTCHER AND A. LANG | [torchbearer D1 at right; 3-line imprint at left] THE | MODERN LIBRARY | NEW YORK | [rule]  \n\nPp. [i–iv] v–xxiv, 1–383 [384–392]. [1–13]16.  \n\nContents as 187.1a except: [ii] blank; [iv] publication and manufacturing statements; [385–389] ML list; [390–391] ML Giants list; [392] blank. (*Spring 1941*)  \n\n*Jacket:* Non-pictorial in very dark bluish green (166) on cream paper with lettering and torchbearer in reverse against solid very dark bluish green background. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal. \n\n> Front flap as 187.1a jacket B. (*Spring 1941*)  \n\n#### 187.1c. Highet introduction added (1950)  \n\nTHE ODYSSEY | OF HOMER | TRANSLATED BY | S. H. BUTCHER AND A. LANG | [short swelled rule] | INTRODUCTION BY GILBERT HIGHET | PROFESSOR OF GREEK AND LATIN | COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | [torchbearer E5] | THE MODERN LIBRARY · NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [i–iv] v–xvi, 1–383 [384]. [1–11]16 [12]8 [13]16.  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] blank; [iii] title; [iv] *Copyright, 1950, by Random House, Inc.*; v–xiv INTRODUCTION | by Gilbert Highet; xv–xvi WORKS IN ENGLISH | ABOUT THE HOMERIC POEMS; 1–383 text; [384] blank.  \n\n*Jacket:* As 187.1b. (*Fall 1949*)  \n\nSee 186.1c for notes about Highet’s introductions to *The Iliad* and *The Odyssey*. The front matter on pp. v–xxiv and the poem on p. 383 of 187.1a–b were omitted from 187.1c when Highet’s introduction was added.  \n\n#### 187.2. Rees translation (1962)  \n\nTHE | ODYSSEY | OF | HOMER | TRANSLATED BY | ENNIS REES | [torchbearer H] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | NEW YORK  \n\nPp [i–vi] vii–xviii, [1–2] 3–416 [417–430]. [1]16 [2–7]32 [8]16.  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] blank; [iii] title; [iv] © Copyright, 1960, by Ennis Rees; [v] dedication; [vi] blank; vii–[viii] CONTENTS; ix–xv INTRODUCTION signed p. xv: ENNIS REES; [xvi] blank; xvii–xviii SELECTED | BIBLIOGRAPHY; [1] fly title; [2] blank; 3–409 text; 410–416 INDEX; [417–422] ML list; [423–424] ML Giants list; [425–430] blank. (*Spring 1962*)  \n\n*Jacket:* Pictorial in strong greenish blue (169), moderate greenish yellow (102) and black on coated white paper with a small ship in moderate greenish yellow against sea represented by wavy black lines; lettering in reverse and black, all against strong greenish blue background.  \n\n> Front flap:\nThis is a completely new translation of the ODYSSEY of Homer. Brilliantly done in natural, free-flowing verse, it is the most readable version available to modern readers. \nThe successful recapture here of the flavor and meaning of the ODYSSEY will enable the reader to see fully why the epic story of the wanderings of Odysseus has been one of the most treasured legacies of ancient Greece. (*Spring 1962*)  \n\nRees translation originally published by Random House, 1960. ML edition (pp. vii–416) printed from RH plates, with the title page adapted from the original plates. Published spring 1962. *WR* 4 June 1962. First printing: 10,000 copies. Discontinued 1971/72.  \n\nRees’s translation of *The Odyssey* filled the need for a modern verse translation. Richmond Lattimore’s verse translation of *The Odyssey* did not appear until 1967, sixteen years after his translation of *The Iliad*. The Lattimore translation probably would not have been available to the ML in any case. Rees’s verse translation of *The Iliad* was published in 1963 and was added to the ML the following year (see 186.2). Both of Rees’s volumes were designed so that the plates could be used for ML printings.  \n\nThe ML title page reproduces the title exactly as it appears in the RH printing, but the statement of responsibility for the translator (TRANSLATED BY | ENNIS REES) and the imprint are reduced in size, significantly improving the balance and aesthetic appeal of the ML title page. The 3-line dedication facing the title page in the RH printing, which is identical to that in Rees’s translation of *The Iliad*, is shifted in the ML printing to the recto of the third leaf (p. [v]).  \n\nAlso in the Modern Library  \nHomer, *The Iliad* (1929–1982) 186  \nHomer, *Complete Works* (1935–1973) G18 ",
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