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
Sagas & Epics
The Three Twins: The Telling of a South Indian Folk Epic
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
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Bulfinch's Mythology [The Age of Fable. The Age of Chivalry. Legends of Charlmagne]
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
Hudibras; in Three Parts: Written in the Time of the Late Wars
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
Leabhar Na Feinne. Heroic Gaelic Ballads Collected in Scotland Chiefly from 1512-1871. With an Introduction By Derick S. Thompson. [Scottish Reprints series].
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
The Story Of The Iliad
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
Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
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
The World of Odysseus
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
Valerius Flaccus
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
Pietas from Vergil To Dryden
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
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
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
Beowulf. A New Verse Translation.
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
A Guide to The Odyssey: A Commentary on the English Translation of Robert Fitzgerald
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
The Saga of Grettir the Strong
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
Homer's Iliad, Books I-VI, Literally Translated With Explanatory Notes
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
The Iliad of of Homer, Literally Translated With Explanatory Notes
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
The Odyssey
New York: Vintage Classics, 1963. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. 509 pp. Fine. More
The Iliad of Homer
London: Frederick Warne and Co. Flaxman, John. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. N.d., [ca. 1890s?]. The Chandos Classics. Orig. brown decorative publisher's cloth. xxiv, 452 pp. Illustrations in text. Spine cocked. Rubbing to extremities, wear to corners, chipping to spine head. Cockling to cloth of rear board..... More
The Iliad of Homer
New York: The Heritage Press, 1943. Flaxman, John. Hardcover. 8vo (super). Orig. russet cloth, blind Greek key borders. xxviii, 478 pp., [33] duotone plate illustrations. Spine slightly sunned, some minor chafing to spine ends, a few spots of soiling to rear board. In custom mustard yellow paper-backed slipcase. Near fine..... More
The Mabinogion
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1974. Soft cover. 12mo. Everyman's Library #1097. Paperback. xliv, 283 pp., [6 pp. ads]. Damp stain to lower corner, bumping to corners, a few small spots of wear. This translation of the complete Mabinogion presents in modern English eleven Welsh stories that are among..... More
Homer and the Epic: A Shortened Version of 'The Songs of Homer'
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Soft cover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Soft cover. viii, 243 pp. Sunning to spine and edges with offset panels. More
The Iliad and The Odyssey: A Biography
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange paper boards. x, 285 pp. Fine. More