Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World

Mirecki, Paul and Marvin Meyer, eds. · 2002

$108.00 (€97.99 | £81.75 | ¥17,246)

Leiden / Boston / Koln, Brill Publishers, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Another fine addition to the series, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, being Volume 141, the series being edited by R. van den Broek, J.J.W. Draijvers and H.S. Versnel. Fine-...

Pacific Stars and Stripes: Occupation Forces Souvenir Edition, Tuesday, December 25, 1945

The United States Army · 1945

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, The United States Army, 1945. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of a special edition of the Pacific-based Stars and Stripes, Christmas edition; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Folio-format newsp...

A Lot of Two Copies of Yank: 1) Tokyo Edition, Volume 1, No. 10, November 30, 1945; Yank, the Army Weekly, Volume 2, No. 41, March 31, 1944

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$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, The United States Army, . First Edition. Softcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Two perfectly serviceable reference copies; nothing fancy, but nearly complete and sturdy, folio newspaper/magazine format, folded horizontally. The Yank: the Army Weekly issue has ...

Christopher Columbus

Macniece, Louis · 1944

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

London, Faber & Faber, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, bound in blue cloth, soiled a bit and sunned along edges, moderate foxing throughout, but clean and unmarked. Previou...

A Lot of Three T.S. Eliot Titles: Murder in the Cathedral; the Cocktail Party; the Family Reunion

Eliot, T.S. · 1949

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

London, Faber & Faber , . . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Three important titles from the oeuvre of T.S. Eliot, and form the personal library of the noted English historian of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, Professor Peter Morris Green, now of Iowa City, Iowa, 99 years...

Psyche's Task: A Discourse Concerning the Influence of Superstition on the Growth of Institutions

Fraser, J.G. [James George] · 1913

$47.20 (€42.82 | £35.73 | ¥7,537)

London, Macmillan and Co., 1913. Second Edition, revised and enla. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of this stated Second Edition, revised and enlarge; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. First signature pulling but intact and comp...

The Theban Hegemony, 371-362 B.C.

Buckler, John · 1980

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the series, Harvard Historical Studies. The decade of the Theban dominance in 4th-century Greece has not been the subject of too many inten...

White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006

Hall, Donald · 2006

$20.80 (€18.87 | £15.74 | ¥3,321)

Boston, Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. From the publisher's blurb, "Donald Hall was considered one of the major American poets of his generation. His poetry explores the longing for a more bucolic past and re...

Pseudo-Skylax's Periplous: The Circumnavigation of the Inhabited World

Skylax of Karyanda; Graham Shipley, translator and commentary · 2011

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

Devon, England, Bristol Phoenix, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. True first edition thus, published in 2011 by Bristol Phoenix but then also published the f...

The Sweetest Dream

Lessing, Doris · 2002

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, HarperCollins, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Gray paper over boards, black cloth-backed. Bright and shiny dust j...

All His Sons

Raphael, Frederic · 1999

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, England, Orion Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and accessible collection of Frederic Raphael's shorter fiction, both short stories and novellas. Set in the U.S., coast-to-coast. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little d...

A Double Life

Raphael, Frederic · 1993

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

London, England, Orion Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and accessible novel in which a retired French diplomat plans to write his memoirs but almost remembers too much, the betrayals and acts of dishonesty that shook his moral compass and...

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete in Two Volumes

Rabelais, Francois · 1954

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, England, For The Everyman Library, by J.M. Dent & Sons, 1954. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy, a set complete in two volumes; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, of the Everyman's Library edition, #527, of the ...

Greek Tragedy: A Literary Study

Kitto, H.D.F. · 2011

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, Routledge, 2011. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated reprint edition of the true First Edition from 1939. The author, H.D.F. Kitto (1897-1982) was a renowned British classical scholar, and he lectured at the University of Glasgow from 1920-1944 before becoming...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Rowling, J.K. · 2007

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, for Arthur A. Levine Book, by Scholastic Press , 2007. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Stated First U.S. Edition, with "1" in number line present. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked....

Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth

MacGillivray, Joseph Alexander · 2000

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Hill and Wang, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear but for a small ding to front board bottom, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. ...

Alechinsky: "the Color of Time

Torczyner, Harry · 1976

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Lefebre Gallery, 1976. . Softcover. Size: Square 12mo 7" - 7. Uncommonly found in the trade, there being currently one additional copy available. Two sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copies available, of an artist exhibit catalog from a show in 1976, displaying...

The Isles of Greece

Payne, Robert · 1965

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bluish cloth over boards, lightly sunned to gray at spine. From the personal li...

Alexander's Empire: Formulation to Decay

Heckel, Waldemar, Lawrence Tritle and Pat Wheatley, eds. · 2007

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

Claremont, California, Regina Books, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Unique in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line. A fine companion in a trade paperback format to the Crossroads of History series. "In 325 B.C.E., Al...

Philip II, Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Heritage

Adams, W. Lindsay and Eugene N. Borza · 1982

$30.40 (€27.58 | £23.01 | ¥4,854)

Lanham, Maryland, University Press of America, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine edited collection by various authors on Ancient Greece, Macedonian natural resources, early Macedonia, the political leadership of Philip II, Eurydice, the royal tomb...