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By: AESCHYLUS, SOPHOCLES, EURIPIDES and ARISTOPHANES
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Chicago, Puritan Publishing Company: [c.1940s-50s]
Stock No.: 82502
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
A representative selection from plays by four of the more noted Greek dramatists in an edition possibly produced for a book club. Includes an introduction by Arthur Ziegler. --- In very dark blue cloth-covered boards mostly missing gilt spine titling. Volume has no dust jacket. --- A Good only copy, with soiling to cloth and nearly complete loss of spine titling. Interior remains tightly-bound and quite bright, though a few leaves with creases.; Small Octavo (7-1/2 to 8 in. tall); 360 pages View more info
Price: $11.00
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1953]
Stock No.: 83114
Condition: Fair in Good dust jacket
A selection of seven notable plays from ancient Greece. Includes Agamemnon and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus; Oedipus the King and Antigone by Sophocles; Medea and Alcestis by Euripides and The Frogs by Aristophanes. Edited, with introductions and notes by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. Wrapped in grey and tan variant dust jacket. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 365 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1953 (though 1950 date appears in book). ML #158.2. --... View more info
By: ARISTOTLE
Price: $13.00
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1950]
Stock No.: 82953
Condition: Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
The Greek philosopher's foundational writings on politics and government have guided the peoples of the world for centuries. This Modern Library edition with the complete and unabridged translation from the Greek by Benjamin Jowett, and with an introduction by Max Lerner. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso advertises titles in ML catalog, but total number is missing. Likely published c.1950 (though 1943 date appears in book). ML #228.1. --- A sound copy but with underlinings & margina... View more info
By: BALDRY, H. C.
Price: $14.50
Publisher: New York, Cambridge University Press: 1951
Stock No.: 73888
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
In this work, the author paints a picture of everyday life in ancient Greece in order to help the modern reader understand the context in which such classicists as Homer or Aristophanes wrote their enduring works. With maps of Greece and the Aegean Sea at endpapers. With snippets of translated sections of various works scattered throughout. --- In maroon cloth-covered boards with spine titling and decorations in gilt. Jacket in lavender with image of seated lyre player to front panel. --- Interior with discreet pencilings to several leaves, else a clean, tightly-bound copy. Unclipped jacket wi... View more info
Price: $29.00
Publisher: Poughkeepsie, Paraclete Potter: 1816
Stock No.: 82447
Condition: Fair
A leatherbound relic from the early 19th century, this history of the Roman Empire was later revised by others. --- In brown leather, with spine titling in gilt. Minimal publication details provided. With prior owner's signature to front free endpaper, and rubberstamping to front endpaper, age-toning and some foxing to leaves, chafing to cover edges. Though somewhat battered and soiled, this copy is holding together rather well and remains tightly bound.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); 263 pages View more info
By: HELIODORUS
Price: $13.00
Publisher: London / New York, Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1961
Stock No.: 83173
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
An English language Everyman's Library edition of the Syrian-based Greek's romance, first published in the 3rd century, A.D. The story is centered around ". . .two young lovers and their adventures by land and sea, in Greece, Egypt and Ethiopia." (per Ross, p. 239) Translated by Sir Walter Lamb, who also supplies an introduction. Everyman's Library #276, an entry in EL's Fiction series. --- A 1961 first Everyman's Library edition, in EL larger format binding style 4. Full green cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling and gilt "EL" in script at tail of spine; pale ... View more info
By: HERODOTUS
Price: $22.00
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1947
Edition: First Edition Thus
Stock No.: 82829
Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
Stated First Modern Library Edition, 1947 (confirmed). The ancient Greek author's account of the Persian Wars is among the earliest historical accounts ever recorded. Herodotus has been called 'The Father of History.' This English language edition, with footnotes, translated by George Rawlinson, and with an introduction by Francis R.B. Godolphin. --- In Toledano spine 8 / rust cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h / verso advertises 379 titles in ML catalog. ML #255.1. --- With a little yellowing to leaves & dulling to cover ... View more info
By: LIVY [Titus Livius Patavinus]
Price: $28.50
Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1972
Stock No.: 82766
Condition: Near Fine
An attractive condensed edition of the ancient Roman historian's famous history of Rome, which originally consisted of 142 separate books. Includes index of principal names at rear of volume. With illustrations by Raffaele Scorzelli and maps of Latium & surrounding area to endpapers. Translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt. --- In patterned paper-covered hardcovers backed in rust quarter cloth, with gilt-stamped spine titling on maroon blocks and red topstain, and in matching paper-covered slipcase. Sandglass flyer laid in (Del Mar, No. VIII:36). --- With prior owner's bookplate affixed to half ti... View more info
By: PETRONIUS
Price: $14.00
Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1964
Stock No.: 82513
Condition: Very Good+
A handsome Heritage Press reprint edition in slipcase of the ribald novel attributed to Petronius, a member of the court of Roman Emperor Nero. In the translation of William Burnaby, which has been revised for this edition by Gilbert Bagnani, who also provides an introduction. With illustrations by Antonio Sotomayor. Sandglass flyer laid in (New York, no. II:34). --- In red cloth-covered boards with Sotomayor drawings on black front and back cover blocks; gilt-stamped spine titling on black block. Slipcase covered in black paper. --- A bright, clean copy but with a hint of toning to spine. Sli... View more info
By: PLATO; WARRINGTON, John (translation)
Price: $23.00
Publisher: London / New York, Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1977
Stock No.: 83131
ISBN: 0460004573
Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket
An Everyman's Library edition featuring the four dialogues of Plato concerning the trial, imprisonment and death of Socrates in ancient Greece. Includes the Euthyphro (holiness), Apology (speeches of Socrates in his own defense), Crito (post-sentencing strategies) and Phaedo (death by hemlock poisoning). Translated from the Greek, and with an introduction, by John Warrington. Entry 457 in Everyman's Library series. --- A 1977 reprint edition, in Everyman's Library larger format binding style 5. Full light blue paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling and gilt anchor-and-dolphin dev... View more info
