Minoans. Life in Bronze Age Crete
London: Routledge, 1993. Soft cover. 8vo. 210 p.p. Paperback. No marks, as new. This book presents how life was in the Bronze Age, with pictures, and illustrations by the author. More
London: Routledge, 1993. Soft cover. 8vo. 210 p.p. Paperback. No marks, as new. This book presents how life was in the Bronze Age, with pictures, and illustrations by the author. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Full navy paper boards. 164 pp., XXXII plates. Illustrations in text. Spine cocked. Red ink stain to ffep. Inner hinge cracked at p. 65. Dust jacket is price clipped, edge worn, age toned, damp..... More
London: Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, 1883. Hardcover. 12mo. Seventh thousand. 257 p.p. A.E.G. Half-bound morrocco leather over red cloth boards. Presentation copy by T. Collins, H.M. of Newport Grammar School, 1885. Newport Grammar School logo on front board. 24 illustrations throughout book from designs by Flaxman, John and others. 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: Typis academicis. Impensis Cornelii Crownfield, Celeberrimae Academiae Typographi. Prostant apud Jacobum Knapton, Rob. Knaplock, & Paulum Vaillant, bibliopolas Londinenses, 1718. Hardcover. 8vo. ...L.L.D. Coll. Regin. Cantab. Magister, & Canonicus Eliensis. Accedunt emendationes cl. Joannis Walkeri, A.M. Coll. Trin. Socii. 372 p.p. Latin. Leather. No jacket. Speckled page ends. Orange..... More
Boston: Hillard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1827. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Quarter brown cloth, tan paper boards. xii, 13-177 pp. Deckled edges. Worn to spine and joints. Boards are tamp stained, worn and bumped to covers. Bookseller ticket to front pastedown. Pencil inscription to..... More
Birmingham, Alabama: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1982. Hardcover. 8vo. Facsimile. Special Edition privately printed for the members of The Classics of Medicine Library. This is copy no. 20967 from the library of Dr. Barry Gayle. Publishers top-grain cowhide. Boards decoratively brass-die stamped in 22-karat gold. Title on spine in..... More
London: Printed by J. Valpy, sold by Longman & Co., et. al. 1838. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Quarter brown cloth, brown pebbled cloth boards, red morocco spine label. xx, 363 pp. B&W frontis, and plates at rear. Rubbing and bumping to extremities. Spine shaken, some cracking to inner hinges and..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976. Hardcover. 18mo. Loeb Classical Library. Facing Latin and English. Orig. red cloth. xiv, 380 pp., [8 pp. ads]. Small damp stain to fore edge of text block. Dust jacket is price clipped, rubbed to extremities, slightly sunned to spine, light chipping to corners and..... More
London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1962. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full blue cloth. Map endpapers. 254 pp. [15] B&W plates. Ex-library stamps of Thomas L. Kenney Secondary School to endpapers and History Dept. to top edge of text block, but no other library markings or stickers. Small..... More
London: Pan Books, 1955. Soft cover. 4.5" x 7" Paperback. 221 pp. [4] pp. B&W illustrations, B&W illustration and maps in text. Covers age toned, spine sunned, small spot of wear to spine. Interior age toned. Remainder mark to tail edge. More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First edition. 267 p.p. Red cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Light bumping to spine ends and corners, and sunning to top edge.. Illustrated dust jacket is price clipped and has some wear to spine ends, edges and corners.Twelve unnumbered B&W..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986. Soft cover. 8vo. Tranlated by Margaret Cook. Originally published as L'invention de la Mythologie. Soft cover. xii, 179 pp. Spine sunned. Ink ownership inscription to half-title, some ink underlining and notes to interior. Int his fresh approach to the question of the origins..... More
Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. Reprinted from the 1834 edition. xxi, 362 p.p. [1 blank], xiv, [1], 544 p.p. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Spine ends and corners are bumped. Spine is sunned. Bookseller sticker of Parkers of Oxford to front pastedown..... More
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. New Aspects of Antiquity Series. Full brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine and publisher's device to front board. 168 pp., [16] B&W plates, [4] colour plates. With 123 illustrations, 15 in colour. Rubbing to spine ends and corners, else fine..... More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Soft cover. 8vo (super). xxvii, 470 p.p., xxxvi, 277 p.p. Two volumes bound as one. First Thus. First puplished in 2 vols in 1945. Pictorial soft cover with Greek palm design. A few scuffs to tail edge, but otherwise a fine copy. Throughout..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960. Hardcover. 18mo. Loeb Classical Library. Facing Greek and English. Orig. olive cloth. xxviii, 527 pp., [8 pp. ads]. Cloth is foxed, creasing to spine, rubbing to extremities, damp staining to spine foot, white spot to rear board. Starting to inner hinge at title page..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. Hardcover. 18mo. Loeb Classical Library No. 28. Facing Greek and English. Orig. olive cloth. xxviii, 527 pp., [8 pp. ads]. Spine slightly tilted. Light chafing to extremities. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned to spine, rubbed to extremities, some damp staining to head of..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. Hardcover. 16mo. Loeb Classical Library No. 69. Orig. olive green cloth, xxiii, 423pp., (8( ads. Light wear to spine and edges, o/w very good in worn and rubbed d/w. Two romances: Daphnis and Chloe by Longus and Romances of Parthinius and other fragments. More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xxii, 242 pp. Light bumps to corners, else fine. The power of the Oedipus legend is apparent not only in its interpretations but even more so in its variations. As Edmunds writes, "Translations, adaptations, and performances still come..... More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Soft cover. 8vo. Second printing. Soft cover. 448 pp. There was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. In Approaches to Greek Myth, Lowell Edmunds brings together practitioners of eight of the most important..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo (tall). Full burgundy paper boards. 83 pp. Fine condition. Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in his place. Ted Hughes began his translation of Euripedes'..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo (tall). Full burgundy paper boards. 83 pp. Fine condition. Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in his place. Ted Hughes began his translation of Euripedes'..... More
London: Veneunt Appud B. Fellowes, 1829. 4th Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (medium). Half-bound calf over tan marbled boards. xiv, (2) 188 p.p. Text in Greek, with Latin annotations. Some light rubbing to edges and spine ends. Trimmed pages and light sporatic foxing. Tears to the upper margin of two leaves, starting..... More