First Edition. A good first edition hardcover in a clipped good dust jacket. Gently read, if at all. No markings.

First Edition. A good first edition hardcover in a clipped good dust jacket. Gently read, if at all. No markings.

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Size: 6x0x10; [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey. ]

Size: 6x0x10; [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey. ] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Light tanning to edges. Pages unmarked. "Analyzes the concept of fame throughout history. Includes chapters on Homer, Alexander the Great, Pompey, Cicero, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Caligula, Nero, Jesus Christ, St. Augustine, Charlesmagne, St. Francis of Assisi, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Benjamin Franklin, John Keats, William Hazlitt, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Abraham Lincoln, Mathew Brady, and P.T. Barnum." "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation."-Johns Hopkins University.

Octavo, blue and biege cloth boards in dust jacket, book and jacket are in

Octavo, blue and biege cloth boards in dust jacket, book and jacket are in very good condition, jacket shows edgewear and toning, book shows edgewear/ discolorization and mild toning to the text block, 649pp.

First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($27.50 price intact).

First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($27.50 price intact). Published by Oxford University Press, 1986. Octavo. Book is signed by the author on the title page. Book is very good with light toning to the page ends, and a slight spine lean. Dust jacket is very good with light toning to the edges and spine. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.