Philpotts (Eden) The Treasures of Typhon
£325
London, Grant Richards, 1924.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6/-.
Sulky & obstinate, Typhon is not the son his well-to-do Athenian parents think he should be. Not knowing what else to do, they reach out to their friends Epicurus and Menander, the great Hellenic philosophers of old.
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Minor mark to lower board at top edge; jacket lightly rubbed with a few very minor chips or closed tears to extremities, but overall very good.
Jacket artwork by John Austen.
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