New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894. Hard Cover. 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..... More
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1960. Hard Cover. 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..... 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
Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1970. Hard Cover. 8vo. Full navy cloth. Top edge blue. xvi, 715 pp. Crease to spine, light rubbing to extremities. Dust jacket is price clipped, has prior price sticker, staining to spine and rear cover, bumping to extremities, some scuffs to rear. A wide-ranging..... More
Lipsiae: B.G. Tevbneri, 1961. Hard Cover. 8vo. Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorvm et Romanorvm Tevbneriana. Eighth edition. 160 p.p. Orange cloth boards with black lettering to spine and front board. Sticker ghost to foot of front board, rubbing to edges, bumping to spine ends and corners, sunning to spine, black scuffs to..... More
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987. Hard Cover. 8vo. SIGNED with inscription to title page. Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies Number 8. Full green cloth. xi, 211 pp. B&W illustrations in text. The transformations of the myth of Apollo and Daphne in literary treatments from Ovid through the..... More
Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 1996. Soft Cover. 8vo. Third printing, and first paperback printing. [12], 210 p.p. Two B&W photos. Slight bumping and curling to corners, else a fine copy. This inquiry into the collective psychology of the ancient Romans speaks not about military conquest, sober law, and practical..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Hard Cover. 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..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. Hard Cover. 8vo. Revealing Antiquity Series, #16. vii, 146 p.p. Bugundy cloth boards with gilt titling and device to front board. Dust jacket has light bumping to extremities, else fine. Over the past century, exploration and serendipity have uncovered mosaic..... More
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. Hard Cover. 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..... More
Oxonii: E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1961. Hard Cover. 12mo. Latin. Orig. blue cloth. Unpaged, approx. 296 pp. Small stain to fore edge of rear board, bumping to corners and spine head. Dust jacket is darkened to spine and edges, clipped to front flap, rubbed to extremities, small chips to spine ends..... More
New York: Faber & Faber, 2009. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Quarter red paper, brown paper boards. xi, 255 pp. Light bruising to spine ends, else fine in fine jacket. In An Oresteia, the classicist Anne Carson combines three different versions of the tragedy of the house of Atreus -..... More
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1926. Hard Cover. 12mo. Orig. burgundy cloth. vii, 579 pp. Light rubbing to extremities. Spine tilted. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. Some annotation and underlining to text. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007. Hard Cover. 12mo. The I Tatti Renaissance Library No. 26. xxxix, 295 p.p. Includes notes on text and bibliography. Blue cloth boards with black spine label, gilt lettering. A near fine copy overall. The most important literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those writers..... More
Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1966. Hard Cover. 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..... More
London: Oxford at the Clardendon Press, 1963. Second Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Later printing from the sheets of the second edition. Orig. red cloth, lix, 253pp. Light rubbing to edges, spine bruised, o/w very good in very good but worn and clipped d/w, sticker ghost on upper front jacket. More
London: Oxford University Press, 1974. Hard Cover. 8vo. vi, 218 p.p. Black cloth boards with gilt titling and publisher's device to spine in red dust jacket. Some rubbing to dust jacket, tear to spine head, not affecting text, and sunning to spine. Text is bright and clean. This selection of..... 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
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. Hard Cover. 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..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1999. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 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..... More
London: The Limited Editions Club, 1967. Ayrton, Michael. 1st Edition Thus. Hard Cover. 4to. SIGNED limited edition, signed by artist to limitations page, #1488/1500. Quarter tan cloth, burgundy paper boards. xx, 184 pp. [16] B&W plates. One very small scuff to spine. Overall, fine in fine custom slipcase. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover.xii, 449 pp. Very slight creasing to spine and bumping to corners, fine overall. The role of the gods in the classical world's epic tradition has been the subject of controversy since ancient times, and many modern readers continue to find their..... More
