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jason sweitzer <[log in to unmask]>
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Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 28 May 2000 17:46:39 -0700
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Now this is interesting. May I ask for the address of
Paul Dry Books? The only copy of Golding's Ovid I have
found for sale was the original, which was selling for
$8000.

--- Carrol Cox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > On the topic of Pounds translator
> preferences...does anyone know what became
> > of the Golding Ovid edition that Paul Dry Books
> was putting out? Maybe I
> > should just go knock on their door and demand a
> copy; they ARE right down the
> > street from me.
>
> I'm afraid this won't help you much. in 1961,
> Centaur Press (London)
> published it under the title of *Shakespeare's Ovid*
> -- in an edition of
> 1500, 750 of which were for sale in the U.S. I
> suspect I bought my copy
> by mail from Blackwell's in Oxford. Anyhow, you
> might find it in a library
> near you. Someone ought to scan the text and put it
> on a web page.
> Except that no OCR program's dictionary would
> recognize Goulding's
> spelling.
>
> Carrol


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