title page, with “First published 1930” in center and PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN at foot of verso, pp [iii-iv];
dedicatory letter to SIR JOHN THOMSON WALKER p v-vi;
text pp 1-340;

Printed in Great Britain

by The Riverside Press Limited

Edinburgh

in center p [341];

pp [342-44] blank;
white endpapers;
all edges untrimmed;
brown head and tail bands;
bound in natural vellum over beveled boards, back cover plain, title page vignette stamped in gilt on center of front cover,
spine gilt stamps

GEORGE MOORE

APHRODITE

IN AULIS

column-like ornament

Chapter I revised from “Aphrodite in Aulis: A Modernist Evokes the Spirit of Ancient Greece in a Fable of a Journey from Athens to Aulis” in Vanity Fair, February 1929.
Chapter II revised from “Aphrodite in Aulis: A Wandering Athenian Is Welcomed to Aulis and There Tells of Two Helens of Troy” in Vanity Fair, March 1929.
Chapters III-XXIII previously unpublished.

A56-b Second American edition, revised

Title Page

APHRODITE [small diamond] IN [small diamond] AULIS

GEORGE [small diamond] MOORE

drawing of statue of Aphrodite in terra-cotta colored ink

BRENTANO’S [small diamond] NEW [small diamond] YORK

all within box of single rules, resembling a Greek column

Launch

Published 16 March 1931 at $2.50.

Description

Height: 8 1/8 in; 8.13 in; 20.64 cm

Width: 5 1/4 in; 5.25 in; 13.34 cm

[1-20]8; pp [2], vi, 312, comprising:

blank leaf, not paginated;
half titie, verso blank, pp [i-ii];
title page, with

Manufactured in the United States

of America

Above center of verso, pp [iii-iv];

dedicatory letter to Sir John Thomson Walker pp v-vi;
fly title, verso blank, pp [1-2];
text pp 3-311;
list of seven “Other Books by Mr. Moore” at top and colophon at bottom p [312];

This book has been printed in Fournier type

on Warren’s Egg Shell Laid paper by The

Plimpton Press, Norwood, Massachusetts.

Typography by Ronald Freelander. Title

page by Howard Simon.

white endpapers, matching text paper;
top edge trimmed and stamped reddish brown, fore and bottom edges untrimmed;
bound in light gray cloth, back cover plain, drawing of Aphrodite statue on title page repeated on front cover in terra-cotta,
spine lettered in terra-cotta

APHRODITE

IN AULIS

GEORGE

MOORE

BRENTANO’S

Text revised and chapter twenty-two rewritten, replacing chapters XXII and XXIII of the first edition (A56-a). Part of second printing, noted on verso of title leaf, remaindered in dark

blue cloth binding, stamped in yellow.

A56-2b Second English (Uniform) edition

Title Page

APHRODITE

IN AULIS

GEORGE MOORE

vignette

London

William Heinemann Ltd.

1931

Launch

Published August 1931 at 8/6

Description

Height: 9 in; 22.86 cm

Width: 5 1/2 in; 5.5 in; 13.97 cm

[A]8, B-S8, R2, R✱4 (inserted between R1 and R2); pp [2], vi, 260, comprising:

blank leaf, not paginated, half title, with list of eight titles by GM

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN

THE SAME FORMAT

on verso, pp [i-ii];

title page, with

First published, in a Limited Edition, 1930

New and Revised Edition, 1931

in center and

Printed in Great Britain at

The Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey

at foot of verso, pp [iii-iv];

dedicatory letter to SIR JOHN THOMSON WALKER pp v[vi] (the latter misnumbered v, corrected in subsequent impressions);
text pp 1-260;
white endpapers, with extra spine label tipped on lower right corner of verso of free rear endpaper;
all edges untrimmed;
marbled paper covered board sides,
brown cloth spine, with white paper label on spine, lettered in brown:

Aphrodite

Aulis

George

Moore

Heinemann

Contents;

Same as the second American edition (A56-b); second impression September 1931.

Reissued in a different binding as:

A56-2b2 Ebury Edition

Ebury Edition, Heinemann, London, March 1938.

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