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By: Aeschylus; Morshead, E.D.A.; Warner, Rex
Price: $20.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979
Seller ID: 2277128
Endpaper edges a bit faded. 1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xviii, [2], 177, [1] pp. Green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the Greek by E.D.A. Morshead, with an introduction by Rex Warner, and illustrations by Michael Ayrton. In the 'Oresteia' - the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity - Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody ch... View more info
By: Apuleius, Lucius; Adlington, William; Darton, F.J. Harvey
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Hogarth Press / Crown Publishers: 1924
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2272203
Crown reissue of privately printed Hogarth edition, with Hogarth imprint still appearing on title page, but Crown reference on jacket. Ink pictographic stamp on front endpaper and flyleaf, some loss from top jacket edge. 1924 Hard Cover. 359, [1] pp. 9 1/4 x 6 1/2. Green cloth, gilt titles, light blue endpapers. Illustrations and decorations by Philip Hagreen. Translated by William Adlington from the original Latin Metamorphoses, with an introduction by F.J. Harvey Darto... View more info
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By: Aristophanes; Fitts, Dudley; Hickie, William James; Seldes, Gilbert
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1959
Seller ID: 2261907
Includes publisher's slipcase, Sandglass Number I:25 laid in. Slipcase lightly toned. 1959 Hard Cover. xii, 52; xviii, 62 pp. The Birds, bound dos a dos with The Frogs. The Birds is translated by Dudley Fitts, with illustrations by Marian Parry, and The Frogs is translated by William James Hickie, with an introduction by Gilbert Seldes, and wood engravings by John Austen. View more info
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By: Aristotle; Thomson, J.A.K.; Tredennick, Hugh; Barnes, Jonathan; Grayling, A.C.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Folio Society: 2003
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2276796
Includes publisher's slipcase. Slipcase lightly scuffed. 2003 Hard Cover. li, [1], 297, [3] pp. 8vo. The ethical philosophy of the famous Greek philosopher and pupil of Plato, often referred to as the Nicomachean Ethics. Translated by J.A.K. Thomson, revised with notes and appendices by Hugh Tredennick, with an introduction and further reading by Jonathan Barnes and a preface by A.C. Grayling, and a frontispiece engraving by Simon Brett. Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Aristide D. Caratzas, Publisher: 1987
Seller ID: 1501234
1987 Hard Cover. 100 pp. Reprint of the 1907 edition. CONTENTS: THE DEIFIED ABSTRACTS AS INDIVIDUAL CULTS: State-Cults: Of the Republican Period, Of the Empire; Abstracts Popularly But Not Officially Worshipped; Occasional and Individual Deifications; Doubtful Examples; THE DEIFIED ABSTRACTS AS A CLASS: Their Origin; The Deified Abstracts in Literature: Literature of the Republic; Literature of the Early Empire; Literature of the First and Second Centuries A.D.; Literatu... View more info
By: Bowra, C.M.
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Mentor: 1957
Seller ID: 1293925
Pages lightly toned, edge wear. 1957 Mass Market Paperback. CONTENTS: The Unity of the Greeks; The Heroic Outlook; The Gods; City and Individual; The Good Man and the Good Life; Myth and Symbol; Imagination and Reality; The Plastic Vision; The Place of Reason; Epilogue. View more info
By: Bulfinch, Thomas
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Modern Library:
Seller ID: 2276970
No jacket, top corners of boards lightly bumped, pencil name on front endpaper, no publisher date. xi, 778 pp. Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of the works of Thomas Bulfinch, renamed after him and published after his death. It is a classic work of mythology and is still being printed, even 150 years after the first work, Age of Fable, was published in 1855. The following is a table of contents of the work, which itself can serve as an interesting pantheon of the ch... View more info
By: Catallus
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Longman: 1983
Seller ID: 1539536
Edges rubbed. 1983 Soft Cover. 76 pp. This workbook contains the Latin text and study material for the first eleven poems from the collected works of Catullus. These provide an ideal exercise in the reading and literary study of Latin poetry. View more info
By: Clarke, H.; [Corderus / Cordier, Mathurin]; [Aesop]; [Erasmus]
Price: $450.00
Publisher: Benjamin Franklin Bache.: 1789
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2045502
First edition. Rebound in new leather, with new endpapers. Two gatherings proud at fore-edge but holding firmly, minimal tears along edges and loss from marginal corners of a few pages, ink name (Charles Thompson) appears on title page, on blank following Aesop's fables (dated 1802), and twice on final page of text. An unscrupulous individual at some point in the past excised the bottom margin of the title page in such a way that 'Benjamin Franklin' remains visible, but ... View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers: 2009
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2272169
Second printing. No jacket. A very nice copy. 2009 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. On a warm spring day, the beautiful young goddess Persephone is snatched from her home by Hades, god of the Underworld, and taken away to live underground and become his bride. Persephone's mother, Demeter, goddess of Earth, is so brokenhearted that she curses the land so nothing can grow — a permanent winter. How will Persephone and her mother be reunited? Will spring ever come again? Thi... View more info
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By: Demosthenes; Holmes, Arthur
Price: $10.00
Publisher: John Allyn, Publisher: 1872
Seller ID: 2199449
Free endpapers removed, pencil notes in text. 1872 Hard Cover. xxviii, 195 pp. Greek text with English notes. The most famous judicial oration by the ancient Greek statesmen and orator, originally delivered in 330 B.C. View more info
By: Fitts, Dudley; Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Dial Press: 1947
Edition: 4th Printing
Seller ID: 2266818
Fourth printing. No jacket, spine faintly toned. 1947 Hard Cover. xiv, 596 pp. CONTENTS: Aeschyles: Agamemnon; Sophocles: Electra; Aeschyles: Eumenides; Euripides: The Trojan Woman; Euripides: Medea; Euripides: Hippolytus; Euripides: Alcestis; Sophocles: King Oedipus; Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus; Sophocles: Antigone; Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound; Appendix: Commentaries; Index of Proper Names. View more info
By: Florus, Lucius Annaeus [Florus, Publius Annius]
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Londini: Ex Officina Jacobi Tonson, & Johannis Watts.: 1715
Seller ID: 2135233
Minor loss from spine head & foot, ink name on front flyleaf. 1715 Full-Leather. [viii], 141, [2] pp. Full calf, gilt titles, decorations, & rules, marbled endpapers. Latin text. A work of history by a contemporary of Hadrian. View more info
By: Fox, Robin Lane; Haig, Alexander M.
Price: $100.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1991
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274880
Publisher's insert and blank bookplate laid in. 1991 Full-Leather. 568 pp. 8vo. Original navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. This edition includes a frontispiece showing a bust of Alexander and a new foreword by Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. Whe... View more info
By: Gibbon, Edward; Bury, J.B. (Editor)
Price: $95.00
Publisher: AMS Press: 1974
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2270768
Minimal cosmetic wear. 1974 Hard Cover. 3928 pp. Complete in seven volumes. 8 3/4 x 5 7/8. 8vo. Brown leatherette spines over orange cloth, gilt titles, decorations & rules, black panels. Maps on endpapers. Extensive appendices, bibliography and index. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was written by English historian Edward Gibbon and published in six volumes. It stands as a major literary achievement of the 18th century because it was adopted as a... View more info
By: Gibbon, Edward; Milman, Dean; Guizot, M.; Smith, William
Price: $175.00
Publisher: The Nottingham Society: 1845
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 2277955
Limited edition, #557 of 1000 copies. Corners a bit rubbed with a small chip from vol. II spine head and minimal loss elsewhere. 1845 Half-Leather. Complete in six hardcover volumes. 8vo. Black leather spines and corners, marbed boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. Includes notes by Dean Milman, M. Guizot, and Dr. William Smith, and photogravure frontispieces. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was written by English historian Edward Gibbon and pub... View more info
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By: Gibbon, Edward; Milman, H.H.
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1864
Seller ID: 2275476
Spine of first volume repaired, rear endpapers of first volume stained, other volumes in very good condition. 1864 Hard Cover. Complete in six volumes. 8vo. Original black blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles. Gibbon's complete work, with notes by Rev. Milman, plus a general index. The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. ... View more info
By: Gibbon, Edward; Radice, Betty
Price: $175.00
Publisher: The Folio Society: 1983
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274150
Includes two publisher's slipcase as issued. A copy tiny spots on top slipcase panels, otherwise an exceptional set. 1983 Hard Cover. Complete in eight hardcover volumes. Edited with introduction by Betty Radice. Illustrations from etchings by Gian Battista Piranesi throughout text. 9 7/8 x 6 3/8. 8vo. Bound in cream vegetable parchment (which has the look of vellum) blocked in red, blue, and gold. Gilt titles & rules. Maps on endpapers. The History of the Decline and Fa... View more info
By: Gibbon, Edward; Saunders, Dero A.; Robinson, Charles Alexander, Jr.
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 1986
Edition: Abridged
Seller ID: 2274343
Abridged. Multiple creases to wrappers, wrappers rubbed, ink names on half-title page, pages lightly toned. 1986 Mass Market Paperback. x, 691 pp. Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century, is widely considered the greatest work of history ever written. This abridgment retains the full scope of the original, but in a b... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 2011
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2273584
First edition. Bookplate on half-title page. 2011 Hard Cover. 356 pp. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily... View more info
By: Guinagh, Kevin; Dorjahn, Alfred P.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co.: 1942
Seller ID: 2197652
5th printing. Light edge wear. 1942 Hard Cover. 822 pp. 8vo. A collection of Latin literature containing works by Plautus, Terence, Cato, Lucretius, Caesar, Cicero, Catullus, Sallust and Vergil. A fold out map describes the locations where the works were written. View more info
By: Hagg, Tomas
Price: $7.00
Publisher: University of California Press: 1991
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2271919
First printing. Top page ridge very faintly foxed, ink name and date on first blank, very faint smell of smoke. 1991 Trade Paperback. xii, 264 pp. Tracing the development of Greek romances from 200 B.C. through twelfth-century Byzantium, Tomas Hägg analyses the content, plot and narrative techniques of the ancient novel, and explores the social and literary milieu in which the genre flourished. View more info
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Yale University Press: 1974
Seller ID: 1527480
Wrappers rubbed & toned. 1974 Trade Paperback. 252 pp. A scholarly examination of medieval romance, part of Yale's series studying French literature. CONTENTS: Status of the Text - The Nature of Romance - W.T.H. Jackson; The Author in the Text: The Prologues of Chretien de Troyes - Marie-Louise Ollier; Texts and Other Series - Home and Rome, A Device in Epic and Romance: Le Couronnement de Louis and Ile et Galeron - Jean Batany; Tristan, the Myth of the State and the Lan... View more info
By: Hamilton, Edith
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Mentor / New American Library: 1969
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2277352
Minor loss to spine head and spine base, wrappers lightly rubbed, pages lightly toned. 1969 Mass Market Paperback. 335 pp. A keystone of our culture is the body of myth and legend of the ancient Western world -- stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity since time immemorial. Hamilton's renowned classic brings this legacy to life anew, with impeccably accurate and accessible retellings of eternally spellbinding tales. View more info
By: Herodotus; Lateiner, Donald; Macaulay, G.C.
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics: 2004
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2276396
A fine copy. 2004 Trade Paperback. xxxvi, 584 pp. The Histories, by Herodotus, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars; Biographies of the authors; Chronol... View more info
By: Homer; Buckley, Theodore Alois (Translator)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1888
Seller ID: 1535621
Hinges repaired, pencil notes on endpapers and a few text pages, wear to corners. 1888 Hard Cover. xxx, 432 pp. 7 1/2 x 5. Original embossed black cloth, gilt titles. Translated with preface and explanatory notes by Theodore Alois Buckley, B.A., of Christ Church. Part of Harper's New Classical Library series. Also includes: an essay attributed to Herodotus entitled The Life of Homer; The Battle of the Frogs and Mice (with preface); Hymns & Epigrams, both addressed to god... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1979
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2265092
An exceptional copy. 1979 Hard Cover. 664 pp. 8vo. Brown leather spine, brown cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, brown ribbon marker bound in. Translated into contemporary verse by Robert Fitzgerald, with illustrations by W.T. Mars. View more info
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By: Homer; Keep, Robert P.; Thurber, Samuel
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Allyn and Bacon / Norwood Press: 1883
Seller ID: 2266443
Some ink and pencil marks in text and margins, front free endpaper removed. 1883 Hard Cover. xlii, 322, 159, [3] pp. 8vo. This edition a fold-out frontispiece facsimile of a page from Codex Venetus, the original Greek text of the first six books of Homer's Iliad, and an introduction and notes by Robert P. Keep. Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer's timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling... View more info
By: Homer; King, Bruce M.; Rees, Ennis
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Barnes and Noble Classics: 2005
Seller ID: 2263235
A fine copy. 2005 Trade Paperback. xl, 516 pp. The epic song of Ilion (an old name for Troy), The Iliad recreates a few dramatic weeks near the end of the fabled Trojan War, ending with the funeral of Hector, defender of the doomed city. Through its majestic verses stride the fabled heroes Priam, Hector, Paris, and Aeneas for Troy; Achilles, Ajax, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Patroclus, and Odysseus for the Greeks; and the beautiful Helen, over whom the longstanding war has been... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2272420
First edition. A fine copy. 2007 Hard Cover. viii, 464 pp. Verse translation, with an introduction on singing The Iliad, bibliography, and map. In 2002, the University of Michigan Press published Rodney Merrill's translation of Homer's Odyssey, an interpretation of the classic that was unique in employing the meter of Homer's original. Praising Merrill's translation of the Odyssey, Gregory Nagy of Harvard wrote, Merrill's fine ear for the sound of ancient Greek makes the... View more info
