HESPERIDES BOOKS (OUP, NEW YORK)
Series Note: Hesperides Books was a small and short-lived series issued by OUP [Oxford University Press] New York as a quality-paperback series with the purpose of reissuing selected titles from OUP's backlist and related scholarly-literary lists in paperback form. Its list combined canonical literature, drama, biography, history, art history, musicology, and aesthetic essays. The series appears to have been conceived less as a thematic collection than as a general "serious paperback" line parallel in spirit to OUP New York's better-known Galaxy Books.
In Greek mythology, the Hesperides (...) were "the nymphs of evening and the golden light of sunsets" (source). The name was based on the Ancient Greek word "hesperos" (English, "evening"). OUP seems to seems used this word as a prestige or classical branding device rather than a subject description.
Arranged alphabetically by author and title
HS1. Signs and Symbols in Christian Art - George Ferguson.
HS2. An Enemy of the People; The Wild Duck; Resmersholm - Henrik Ibsen.
HS3. The Art of War from the Age of Napoleon to the Present Day - Cyril Falls.
HS4. Three Plays: The Firstborn; Thor, with Angels; A Sleep of Prisoners - Christopher Fry.
HS5. Young Sam Johnson - James L. Clifford.
HS6. What is Art? Essays on Art - Leo Tolstoy.
HS7. Rebels and Gentlemen - Carl and Jessica Bridenbaugh.
HS8. Mozart: His Character, His Work - Alfred Einstein.
Source of the above checklist:
Mohammedanism: An Historical Survey by H. A. R. Gibb. New York, Oxford University Press, 1962. 2nd ed. (Galaxy Books, GB90). Paperback. viii + 208 pages. "A Galaxy Book."
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