Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Aeschines

Carey, Chris, translator · 2000

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Austin, Texas, University of Texas, Austin, 2000. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine exemplar of the third volume of the Oratory of Classical Greece series. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very s...

Le Cabinet Satyrique: Ou Recueil Parfaict Des Vers Piquans Et Paillards de Ce Temps

Anonyme · 1950

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Paris, France , Au Doulx Temps, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Unusual in the trade, and a lovely exemplar thereof. Le Cabinet Satyrique, ou Recueil parfaict de vers piquants et paillards de ce temps was published by Au Doulx temps ca. 1950, though not so ...

Ironwork in Greece

Petropoulos, Elias · 1980

$180.00 (€163.31 | £136.22 | ¥28,747)

Athens, Greece, Nefeli Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently only one additional copy available on-line. Bound in light brown linen cloth over boards in an oblong hardcover format. Printed, decor...

The Torch of Life: A Key to Sex Harmony

Rossiter, Frederick · 1932

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, Eugenics Publishing Co., 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the previous owner, the bibliographer and erotophile extraordinaire, Gershon Legman, in his inimitable hand, 1940, at first free endpaper, being a very early addition to his l...

Love's Picture Book: The History of Pleasure and Moral Indignation, Complete in Four Volumes: Volume I, II, III and IV

Brusendorff, Ove and Poul Henningsen; translated by H.B. Ward · 1959

$120.00 (€108.87 | £90.82 | ¥19,165)

Copenhagen, Denmark, Veta Publishers, 1959. First English Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. From the personal library of the noted bibliographer and book scout, literary sleuth and erotophile, Gershon Legman, as conveyed to me by his fabulous widow, Judith Legman, a...

Australian Graffiti

Ellis, Rennie & Ian Turner · 1975

$28.80 (€26.13 | £21.80 | ¥4,600)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia , Sun Books, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The prequel to the sequel, Australian Graffiti Revisited, published in 1981. A stated First Edition, published in 1975. SIGNED by the second author, Ian Turner, of Monash Unive...

Roman Satire

Coffey, Michael · 1989

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Bristol, England , Bristol Classical Press, 1989. Second Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of the stated Second Edition, the first having been published in 1976. Unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very s...

Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry

Cairns, Francis · 1973

$28.80 (€26.13 | £21.80 | ¥4,600)

Edinburgh, Scotland, Edinburg University Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the dark blue cloth over boards, bright interior, unmarked. Some mottling to cloth at rear panel only...

War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History

Chaniotis, Angelos · 2005

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell, 2005. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Laid in to this Near Fine exemplar is a printed out, full review by e-mail attachment by Michael P. Fronda. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, ...

Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide

Claridge, Amanda · 2010

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 2010. Second Edition . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the illustrated card-stock wraps. Ma...

Pindar

Carne-Ross, D.S. · 1985

$10.40 (€9.44 | £7.87 | ¥1,661)

New Haven, Connecticut, Hermes Books, by Yale University Press, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Printing of this fine introduction to the lyric poetry of Pindar. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and cle...

Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World

Cartledge, Paul · 2006

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

New York, Overlook Books, 2006. 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. From the publisher's blurb, "Thermopylae r...

Travel in the Ancient World

Casson, Lionel · 1994

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University, 1994. First Edition Thus Twen. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the printed, illust...

Latin Poetry

Carr, Wilbert Lester and Harry E. Wedeck · 1940

$28.80 (€26.13 | £21.80 | ¥4,600)

New York, D.C. Heath & Co, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Remarkably scarce in the trade in this state and condition. English and Latin Edition by Wilbert Lester Carr and Harry E. Wedeck, a survey of ancient Roman poets writing in Latin. Black publish...

Late Latin Writers and Their Greek Sources

Courcelle, Pierre; Harry E. Wedeck, translator · 1969

$116.00 (€105.24 | £87.79 | ¥18,526)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1969. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Translated by Harry E. Wedeck from the original in French, Les Lettres Grecques en Occident do Macrobe a Cassiodore, Second Edition, Paris, Editions E. de Bocca...

The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

Shapiro, Ari · 2023

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, HarperOne, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED at half-title by the author, the award-winning Ari Shapiro. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for slight waviness to page tops ...

Theopompus and Fifth-Century Athens

Connor, W. Robert · 1968

$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.52 | ¥12,138)

Washington, D.C., The Center for Hellenic Studies, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being only a single additional copy available on-line currently. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, ...

Demosthenes Selected Private Speeches

Demosthenes; C. Carey and R.A. Reid, eds. · 1985

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1985. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy in a trade paperback format for the first time, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shel...

Greek and Etruscan & Roman Art

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, George H. Chase, Cornelius C. Vermeule and Mary B. Comstock · 1972

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Boston, Massachusetts, The Classical Collections of the Museum of the Fine Arts, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear, m...

Greek Inscriptions

Cook, B.F. · 1987

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

Berkeley, California / London, England, University of California Press / British Museum, 1987. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine survey of Greek language inscriptions on stone, wood and other objects. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight bindin...