Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Heroes of the Frontier

Eggers, Dave · 2016

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlight...

Nickel Mountain

Gardner, John · 1973

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, bound handsomely in a tan cloth, blind-stamped illustration to front cover, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bumping to spine head and foot. Lovely duotone illu...

The Little Drummer Girl

Le Carre, John · 1983

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Second Printing . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highli...

Foucault's Pendulum

Eco, Umberto; translated by William Weaver · 1989

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

San Diego, A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A big, fat, heavy copy of a fine, sprawling novel of intrigue by the Italian master craftsman, translated from the original Italian by William W...

Baudolino

Eco, Umberto · 2002

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Harcourt, 2002. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Scarce in the trade in this stated First U.S. Edition. Nice-looking copy inside and out, no discernible wear thereto, bright and shiny dust jacket, no discernible wear thereto. Translated fr...

Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture

Green, Peter Morris · 1989

$38.40 (€34.84 | £29.06 | ¥6,133)

London, Thames and Hudson, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, not price-clipped. SIGNED by the author at title page, and from the personal library of...

The Wise Men Drawn to Kneel in Wonder at the Fact So of Itself

Bromige, David, Robert Kelly and Diane Wakoski · 1971

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Los Angeles, California, Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. For the Black Sparrow Press completist, a fine 1971 keepsake from the press, comprised of David Bromige, "The Nest"; Robert Kelly, "Yesod & Malkuth, That is, Advent & ...

The Weary Blues

Hughes, Langston; Carl van Vechten, ed. · 2015

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,027)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A new edition, revised with a Foreword by Kevin Young, a reprint of the original, true First Edition, edited by and with an Introduction by Carl van Vechten. Simply bound in tan cloth over bo...

Beach Music

Pat Conroy · 1995

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

New York, Nan Talese, an imprint of Doubleday, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Stated First Edition,...

The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle

Popham, A.E.; Johannes Wilde; Rosalind Wood · 1984

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.37 | ¥4,088)

New York, Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1984. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. A stated First Edition Thus copy reprint. Sumptuously bou...

Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience

Snowden, Frank M., Jr. · 1971

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971. Third Printing. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, stated Third Printing thereof, with minor wear of covers beyond crimp to front cover; sunning to spine...

Epigrams of Martial: Englished by Divers Hands

Martial [Marcus Valerius Martialis]; J.P. Sullivan and Peter Whigham, eds. · 1987

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Translations by J.V. Cunningham et al. Bound handsomely in brown linen cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, ...

Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture

Skinner, Marilyn B. · 2005

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.95 | ¥3,577)

Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishing, 2005. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scattered penciled notations from the previous owner, the noted English historian of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, Professor Peter Morris Green, now of Iowa City, Iowa...

Xenophon Vorschlage Zu Beschaffung Von Geldmitteln Oder Uber Die Staatseinkunfte

Xenophon; Schutrumpf, Eckart, ed. · 1982

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Darmstadt, Germany, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals but for previous owner's ink-stamp inside front cover and leading to slight sha...

The Trial of Socrates

Stone, I.F. · 1988

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

Boston, Massachusetts, Little, Brown, 1988. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An absolute must-read for scholars of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, really, for classicists everywhere. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internal...

Sappho; Archilochos

Treu, Max, ed. · 1959

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

Munchen, Germany, Ernst Heimeran Verlag, . Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. two cute little tomes, one (Archilochos, published in 1959) bound in yellow cloth over boards, black-stamped logo to front cover, gilt lettering to black label at spine. [7], 8-261 pp., ...

Cornelii Taciti Annalium: Ab Excessu Divi Augusti Libri

Tacitus; C.D. Fisher, ed. · 1939

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Oxonii [Oxford, England], Clarendoniano [the Clarendon Press], 1939. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Blue cloth over boards, gilt let...

Der Philosoph Und Die Politik

Scholz, Peter · 1998

$46.40 (€42.10 | £35.12 | ¥7,410)

Stuttgart, Germany, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the burgundy, white and black printed cloth over boards covers, bright interior, unmarked. German language...

The Making of Roman Italy: Aspects of Greek and Roman Life

Salmong, E.T. · 1982

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.37 | ¥4,088)

Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce item in the trade. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Burgundy cloth over boards, with sharp and distinct gi...

The Divine Comedy: 1 Inferno; 2 Purgatorio; 3 Paradiso

Dante, Alighieri · 1961

$30.40 (€27.58 | £23.01 | ¥4,855)

New York, Oxford University Press, 1961. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound set of three softcover copies, minor wear of covers, less to text-blocks, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copies, featuring blac...