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The Fate of Virgil as Conceived by Dante: A Dialogue of the Dead and the Living Between Walter Savage Landor and William Fiske
First Edition
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1931. 19 pages. Limited edition, #5/350 copies. Written to commemorate the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Virgil. 13 x 9.75 inches. ISBN: B000H498H0.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in marbled paper over board and quarter leather covers with gold lettering on spine. Spine is scuffed and corners and edges are worn. Former owner bookplate on front pastedown. One sheet, folded, announcement of publication from John Henry Nash is included.
Book ID: 261697More details Price: $100.00 -
The Mind of Chaucer
First Edition
Syracuse University Press, 1950. 114 pages. 5-3/4 by 8-3/4 inches. By the scholar of medieval literature. ISBN: 281AIB1039464.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy, no dust jacket. Red cloth with fading to spine. Ex-library with the usual stickers and markings. This copy belonged to the novelist and university professor John Gardner, who published the book The Life and Times of Chaucer in 1977. Some underlining and annotations in Gardner's hand. Signed by Gardner on the front free endpaper.
Book ID: 200331More details Price: $75.00 -
Reading Sumerian Poetry
First Edition
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 205 pages. ISBN: 9780801435980.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 214462More details Price: $65.00 -
The Letters of Junius
. ISBN: 281AIB0132929.
Very Good
Book ID: 60548More details Price: $35.00 -
Horace: "The Country, That's the Place to Live!" (Epode II, Beatus ille qui procul negotiis)
First Edition
Walpole Printing Office [New Rochelle, N.Y ]: George & Helen Macy, 1940. [12] pages. Privately printed for the "friends and near friends" of the publishers. A poem in iambic meter about a roman businessman who dreams of giving up the rat race of city life for a leisurely life of a country patriarch with a wife who cares for the cattle. English translation from the Latin by George Macy. ISBN: B0006CMGRC.
First edition (first printing). Green cloth with gold lettering on cover. A very good hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Foxing to endpapers and page edges.
Book ID: 266553More details Price: $30.00 -
Lydgate and Burgh's Secrees of old Philisoffres: A Version of the 'Secreta Secretorum'
First Edition
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1894. 122 pages. Edited from the Sloane Ms. 2464. Published for the Early English Text Society. ISBN: B0051QGUWU.
First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Top half-inch of spine chipped; spine tanned; wrapper edges chipped.
Book ID: 172440More details Price: $25.00 -
Historiae: Libri I-IV Volume I (Oxford Classical Texts Series)
Oxford University Press, 1942. Introduction in Latin. Text in Greek. ISBN: 9780198145509.
Later printing, 1963. A very good copy in blue cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine. Former owner bookplate on front pastedown. Former owner signature on front free endpaper. No dust jacket.
Book ID: 203379More details Price: $20.00 -
The Decameron: The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence and Conversation (With Heritage Club Sandglass and Slipcase)
The Heritage Press, 1968. ISBN: B00BLS58JI.
Very Good
Book ID: 105987More details Price: $20.00 -
Euripedean Fragments
First Edition
London: Burnes Oates & Washbourne, 1920. 47 pages. Proposed changes to the Greek text of Euripedes' plays. ISBN: 281AIB1043084.
First edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy, with printed boards and a cloth spine, beginning to fray at the edges.
Book ID: 217296More details Price: $20.00 -
The Poetic Edda (Oxford World's Classics)
Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780199675340.
NEW
Book ID: 257459More details Price: $16.95 -
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. ISBN: 9780393343403.
NEW
Book ID: 180668More details Price: $16.95 -
Menander, Volume 1: Aspis to Epitrepontes
First Edition
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979. 526 pages. Loeb Classical Library. The original Greek text and an English translation on facing pages. Translated by W. G. Arnott. Six plays. ISBN: 9780674991477.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Clean inside. No highlighting or underlining.
Book ID: 197654More details Price: $15.00 -
War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad
First Edition
New York: The Noonday Press / Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997. 215 pages. ISBN: 9780374524944.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 245586More details Price: $15.00 -
The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, 1950. ISBN: 9780140440034.
NEW
Book ID: 191792More details Price: $14.00 -
On the elements: Marius (Publications of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA ; 10)
University of California Press, 1977. ISBN: 9780520028562.
Very Good
Book ID: 42485More details Price: $12.50 -
TALES OF FIRENZUOLA - Benedictine Monk of Vallombrosa
Privately Printed. Firenzuola Society, np., nd. Ca: 1930's. ISBN: B004KN70GA.
Very Good
Book ID: 172318More details Price: $12.50 -
Poem of the Cid
J. M. Dent & Sons, 1959. ISBN: B000X6SL66.
Very Good
Book ID: 125264More details Price: $12.50 -
Classics of Roman Literature: from literary beginnings to the end of the Silver Age.
Philosophical Library, 1963. ISBN: B000FMJRMK.
Very Good
Book ID: 172016More details Price: $12.48 -
Livy: A History of Rome
Modern Library, 1962. ISBN: B000GRKLNS.
Near Fine
Book ID: 124094More details Price: $12.00 -
Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, 2003. ISBN: 9780140424393.
NEW
Book ID: 261665More details Price: $12.00
