New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894. Hardcover. 12mo. Quarter burgundy pebbled cloth, burgundy cloth boards, with gilt ruled decoration to spine and boards. xv, 379 pp, ads. [21] B&W plates, incl. frontis w/ tissue guard, plus B&W illustrations in text. Some light scuffing to front board and rubbing to joints..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. black cloth. Geometric endpapers. 343 pp. Spine slightly tilted, edges faded and lightly chafed. Foxing to edges of text block. Dust jacket is price clipped and has some very minor edge wear. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1999. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Soft cover. 294 pp. Covers lightly scuffed, one small stain to fore edge of text block, else fine. The Oresteia comprises three of the greatest plays of all time: Agamemnon, The Choephori and the..... More
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1960. Hardcover. 12mo. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis. Text in Greek and Latin. Full navy cloth. xvi, 375 pp. Light rubbing to spine ends. Small damp stains to top edge of text block. Dust jacet is age toned to spine and edges, a few short..... More
Ithica and London: Cornell University Press, 1994. Hardcover. 8vo. xiii, 248 p.p. Cloth. No marks to dust-jacket. Slight rubbing to spine ends. Letters CW written on top edge of pages. Previous owner's inscription to f.f. endpaper. Overall, a fine copy of book. This book educates readers on the music derived..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Soft cover. 8vo. First paperback printing. Soft cover. ix, 245 pp. Sunning to spine and small stain to upper corner of text block at rear, else a fine copy. More
![Item #008301 Anabasis of Alexander [2 vols]. Arrian, P. A. Brunt](/pictures/thumb/008301.jpg?v=1632243502)
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Hardcover. 16mo. LCL No. 236 & 269. Full olive cloth. lxxxvi, 547 pp.; x, 589 pp. Some rubbing to dust jackets, else fine. Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander in 7 books is the best account we have of Alexander's adult life. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Soft cover. 8vo. Paperback. xxvi, 123 p.p., [1 p. ad]. Spine lightly rubbed at spine foot, sticker ghost to rear at foot, else a fine copy of this collection of the work of the Greek lyric poet Bacchylides [518-451 B.C.], with introduction and notes..... More
New York: Schocken Books, 1972. Tzalos, Helle. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. 310 pp. Covers are sunned, ink inscription to inside front cover, else fine. More
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full brown paper boards. xv, 203 pp. B&W map of central Greece. Front board slightly bowed. Light foxing and a few slight bumps to edges of text block. Dust jacket is sunned to spine..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Hardcover. 4to. Navy cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Navy endpapers. xx, 598 p.p. Numerous colour and B&W photographs and figures thoughout. A few spots of staining to tail edge of text block. Light bumping to dust jacket in a few places, but overall..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. Soft cover. 8vo. Paperback, 224pp. Illustrated. Light fading to covers, o/w fine. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912. Hardcover. 16mo. Orig. green cloth, gilt vignette to front board. xiii, 381 pp. [11] plates, illustrations and maps in text. Stain and spot of wear to head of front board, else fine. More
Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1918. Hardcover. 8vo (small). Macmillan's Canadian School Series. Original green cloth. iv, 518 pp. [5 two-page spread plates of colour maps]. B&W illustrations in-text. Rubbing to extremities, some light staining to rear board. Foxing to edges of text block. Covers ancient history in Greece..... More
London: Oxford at the Clardendon Press, 1961. Hardcover. 8vo (5" x 7"). Oxford Classical Texts. Orig. cloth, xii, (unpaginated). A small rubber stamp to ff/ endpaper, a small bruise to foot of spine, o/w very good in a very good but sunned d/w with small tears to jacket spine and..... More
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. Hardcover. 8vo. xi, 500 p.p. Ex-library copy, library stamp to half title and library rules slip tipped in on rear pastedown. Endpapers have ads for Bohn's Standard Library volumes. Blue cloth boards with blind tooled border and elaborate publisher's device to boards, gilt titling to..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1987. Levy, Pamela R. Soft cover. 8vo. Carl Newell Jackson Lectures Series. Soft cover. ix, 181 pp. Twelve B&W illustrations in text. Creasing to covers, "3.00" carved into upper rear cover. Pencil notation and underlining to text. Based on four Carl Newell..... More
![Item #000784 Ancient Mystery Cults [Carl Newell Jackson Lectures Series]. Walter Burkert](/pictures/thumb/000784.jpg?v=1544719612)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1987. Levy, Pamela R. Soft cover. 8vo. Cover designed by Diane Levy. ix, 181 pp. 12 Illustrations of Greek culture, throughout the book. Book based on four Carl Newell Jackson lectures presented at Harvard University in April 1982. No major defects. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover.ix, 493 pp. Light bump to spine foot, scuff to rear cover. Pencil notation to rfep. Otherwise clean to interior. Fine overall. More
London: Hodder & Stoughton for the English Universities Press, 1948. Hardcover. 18mo. Teach Yourself History Library Series. Full tan cloth. Map endpapers. Top edge blue. xxv, 253 pp. Spine creased. Two small stains to upper front board, bumping to top corners and slight fraying to front lower corner, light smudging..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1951. Hardcover. 12mo. Third revised edition. Full navy cloth. xxv, 925 pp. [3] colour fold-out maps. Over 200 B&W illustrations in text. Spine and top edge of front board sunned, joints and spine ends lightly rubbed. A few small stains to spine and rear board. Stain..... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 1991. Soft cover. 8vo. World of Art series. Soft cover. 256 pp. With 370 B&W illustrations. Light bumping and wear to corners, a few spots of neat pencil underlining and annotation. The Greek myths are so much a part of our visual and literary culture that..... More
![Item #006618 Woman in All Ages and in All Countries [10 vols]. Mitchell Carroll](/pictures/thumb/006618.jpg?v=1604470224)
Philadelphia: The Rittenhouse Press, 1908. Hardcover. 12mo (large). 10 volumes. Full purple moire cloth stamped in gilt on front panel and spine. Volume 1 - Greek Women by Mitchell Carroll: xxiv, 391 pp. Offset panel and some light staining to rear cover. Volume 2 - Roman Women by Alfred Brittain..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1950. Hardcover. 8vo. Reprinted with plates from the first edition. Full green buckram. vii, 331 pp. B&W maps in text. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. Dust jacket is price clipped, a few stains, sunned and rubbed to spine, 1" tear to foot of front joint, sticker..... 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