Dante's Divine Comedy: Hell. Purgatory. Paradise
London: Arcturus, 2009. Dore, Gustave. Hardcover. 4to. Pictorial paper boards, matching dust jacket. 383 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Light bruise to lower corner of front board, else fine. More
London: Arcturus, 2009. Dore, Gustave. Hardcover. 4to. Pictorial paper boards, matching dust jacket. 383 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Light bruise to lower corner of front board, else fine. More
Bloomington: Indiama University Press, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full purple cloth. viii, 248 pp. B&W illustrations in-text. Slight bumping and rubbing to spine ends, some very slight sunning to top edge. Dust jacket sunned at spine, bumping to spine ends and corners, short tear to top edge of rear..... More
Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1971. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Reprinted. ix, 79 p.p. plus colophon. Original price stamped on half-title. Spine slightly cracked, sunned, worn at tail. Wear and rubbing to edges, extremities. Small stain on rear cover. Pages yellowed, but otherwise..... More
New York: Avenel Books, 1978. Hardcover. 8vo (medium). Beautiful dark blue publisher's binding. Title in gilt with decorative face of mythological creature and fountain designs on spine. xvii, 957 p.p., [42] illustrations, [5] maps, [5] charts. Stiff boards. Light wear to edges. Some scratches on rear board and small bump..... More
Coral Gables, Flordia: University of Miami, 1983. Hardcover. 8vo. Two volumes. Original navy cloth. Part 1: xxix, 373 pp. Part 2: 374-746 pp. Printed and numbered to recto only. Boards bowed and light rubbing to extremities to both volumes. Authorized facsimilie. Microfilmed by University Microfilms, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI. More
London: Printed for the Proprietors of English Classics by J.F. Dove, 1826. Hardcover. Contemporary calf boards, new calf spine in contemporary style. vi, 312 pp. Engraved frontis., engraved title. Professionally rebacked, binding tight and square. Calf to boards is cracked, worn, and scuffed. Ink inscription to ffep. Light foxing to..... More
Shannon, Ireland: Irish University Press, 1972. Hardcover. 8.5" x 12.5" No jacket. Title in silver on spine. A complete and unabridged photolithographic facsimile of the first edition [originally published 1872]. ix, xxxvi, 224 p.p. Poems in gaelic, with introduction and notes on the text in english. Light wear and sporadic..... More
London: Seeley and Co. Limited, 1909. Hardcover. 12mo. Fifth edition. Half contemporary calf, brown cloth boards, gilt device to front board, ruling to raised spine bands, blind stamps to compartments, red leather spine label. Marbled endpapers. T.E.G. vii, 314 pp. [16] B&W plates after Flaxman. Spine darkened, some rubbing to..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Company Ltd., 1920. Bacon, J.H.F; Shaw, Byam; Margetson, W.H.; Hammond, Gertrude Demain et al. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Reprint. xxviii, 375 p.p., plus 2 p.p. ads. [51] plates of illustrations, [3 in colour, incl. frontispiece]. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar on front..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full grey paper boards. 99 pp. Some discolouration to extremities of dust jacket, else fine. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter brown cloth, red paper boards, gold lettering to spine. 192 p.p. Light spotting to cloth. Dust jacket has short tear at head of rear cover, sunning to spine. Foxing to edges of text block. Homer's great epic poems have brilliantly evoked..... More
London: Heinemann, 1972. Hardcover. 18mo. Loeb Classical Library No. 286. Orig. red cloth. xxi, 458, 8 pp. Light chafing to extremities. A few instances of yellow highlighting. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned to spine, rubbed to extremities, light chipping to spine head. More
University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full burgundy cloth. x, 340 pp. Light rubbing to edges, small stain to fore edge of text block, else fine. Dust jacket sunned at spine. For centuries the most revered poem in the Western literary canon, Vergil's Aeneid..... More
Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., Publishers, 1892. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo (square). Brown leather binding. Title on spine in gilt. xviii, 110 p.p. Spine and edges lightly bumped. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar on front pastedown endpaper. Embossed ex-library stamp on title page and appears sporadically throughout. Notes in blue pen..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000. Hardcover. 8vo. Bilingual edition. Full black paper boards. xxxi, 213 pp. Dust jacket has some bumping and creasing to rear cover and spine foot, else in fine condition. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000. Hardcover. 8vo. Bilingual edition. Quarter black cloth, speckled black paper boards. xxxi, 213 pp. Fine condition. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original jacket cover. xxx, 213 p.p. with [3] p.p. of family Trees and Acknowledgements. Text in Old English followed by English translation on facing page. Light rubbing to jacket and tail of spine, but..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 1993. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xciv, 365 pp. Age toning to interior, else a clean, fine copy. A lively and authoritative volume that will help any reader appreciate one of the essential works of Western literature. More
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1965. Hardcover. 18mo. Everyman's Library No. 699. Full purple cloth. xxii, 265 pp. Spine and top edges sunned, small stain to rear board. Wear from sticker removal and ink ownership inscription to ffep. More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1930. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. grey cloth. xxxvi, 522 pp. Cloth stained, spin sunned, light chafing to extremities. Interior age toned. Ink underlining and marginalia. With an introduction, notes, a short Homeric grammar, and a vocabulary. More
New York: Translation Publishing Company, 1923. Hardcover. 32mo. Students' Literal Translations. Orig. tan cloth. 117 pp., ads. Light chafing and bruising to spine ends. About fine. More
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. Hardcover. 18mo. Contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards. A.E.R. Marbled endpapers. 466 pp. Engraved frontis. Wear to spine and rear joint, some rubbing to extremities. Foxing to frontis. and title page. More
San Diego: Canterbury Classics, 2011. Hardcover. 8vo. Full mustard yellow leatherette, vignette to front board. Pictorial endpapers. xiv, 639 pp. Red ribbon marker. Fine. More