Structure, Verses, Agency Books

The CIVIL War Books I & II

Julius Caesar; Carter, J.M., ed. · 1980

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,027)

, Aris & Phillips, 1980. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine, bilingual, English-language and Latin-facing account by Julius Caesar of The Civil War, Books I & II, of his fights with the military legions of Pompey. Edited with an Introduction (with seven short chapter...

Selected Correspondence 1869-1931

von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Ulrich; William M. Calder, III, ed. · 1983

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.35 | ¥8,305)

Napoli, Italy, Jovene Editore, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. At title page is inscribed to the influential Classicist, Peter Morris Green, "For Peter Green, with all good wishes 9/viii/'83 Bill," that is to say, the editor of this exhaustive compilat...

A Rope of Vines: Journal from a Greek Island

Chamberlain, Brenda · 1965

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

London, England, Hodder and Stoughton, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition by the Welsh artist, being a fine and accessible account of her encounter with the Greek island of Hydra. Illustrated with her drawings. A perfectly serviceable...

Myth, Scandal and History: The Heinrich Schliemann Controversy and a First Edition of the Mycenaean Diary

Calder, William M. Iii and David A. Traill, eds. · 1986

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.35 | ¥8,305)

Detroit, Michigan, Wayne State University Press, 1986. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Crisply bound, black cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine, quit...

The Lawcourts at Athens: Sites, Buildings, Equipment, Procedure and Testimonia

Boegehold, Alan L., ed. · 1995

$116.00 (€105.24 | £87.79 | ¥18,526)

Princeton, New Jersey, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Volume XXVIII in the series, The Athenian Agora, published by The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1995. From the personal library o...

Political Trials in Ancient Greece

Bauman, Richard A. · 1990

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.35 | ¥8,305)

London, England, Routledge, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for three ink-stamps of the former owner, the noted, influential Classicist Peter Morris Gree...

Myth, Religion, and Mother Right: Selected Writings of J.J. Bachofen

Bachofen, Johann Jakob; Ralph Manheim, translator · 1967

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.24 | ¥5,749)

London, England, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An uber-important contribution to 19th-century social theory, to ethnology and eventually to Women's Studies. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear t...

Assyrian Palace Reliefs in the British Museum

Barnett, R.D. · 1970

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

London, England, The Trustees of the British Museum, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Augmented with a list of all the Assyrian kings whose sculptures appear in the Assyrian Galleries of the British Museum; also with a Short List of Assyrian sculptures ...

Ancient Leros

Benson, J.L. · 1963

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1963. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Greek, Roman and Byzantine Monographs Series, this being Volume 8. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only ve...

An Historical Commentary on the 'Hellenica Oxyrhynchia'

Bruce, I. A. F. · 1967

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.16 | ¥3,833)

Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for the ink-stamp of the former owner, the influential classicist Peter M...

Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars

Bridges, Emma, Edith Hall and P.J. Rhodes · 2007

$68.00 (€61.69 | £51.46 | ¥10,860)

Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 2007. 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. Edited by Emma Bridges, Ed...

Marcus Aurelius

Birley, Anthony · 1965

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

London, England, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in this state, being a true First Edition. Attractive, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the black cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine, rubbed li...

Augustus and the Greek World

Bowersock, G.W. · 1965

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Oxford, England, The Clarendon Press at Oxford University, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and accessible social study of the Hellenistic world under Emperor Augustus of Rome, how they viewed him and his administration of a Greek principate. Lai...

The Prussian and the Poet: The Letters of Ulrich Von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff to Gilbert Murray (1849 - 1930)

Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Ulrich von; Anto Biehl, William M. Calder, III, William F. Fowler, eds. · 1991

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

Hildesheim, Germany, Weidmann, 1991. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED, I believe, by the first of three editors, Anton Biehl, inscribed warmly to the Classicist Peter Morris Green, "For Peter Green, who may even read this," with an illegible da...

Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State

Billows, Richard A. · 1990

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1990. 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 publi...

Social and Political Thought in Byzantium: From Justinian I to the Last Palaeologus; Passages from Byzantine Writers and Documents

Barker, Ernest, translator and editor · 1957

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

Oxford, England, Oxford University, for the Clarendon Press, 1957. 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. Bound in black cloth over board...

The Iliad, the Odyssey and the Epic Tradition

Charles Rowan Beye · 1968

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

London, England, Macmillan, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Blue cloth over boards, silver lettering to spine. From the publisher blurb, "More than a readin...

Portrait of a Greek Mountain Village

Boulay, Juliet Du · 1974

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,027)

Oxford, England, Oxford University at the Clarendon Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being only one additional copy available currently on-line. Blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. The author was the w...

Sentimental Philhellenism and the Image of Greece

Borza, Eugene N. · 1973

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1973. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Near Fine condition offprint from The Classics and the Classical Tradition, published in 1973 by the Pennsylvania State University Press, being a festschrift, Essays Presented to R...

The Dangerous Hour: The Lore of Crisis and Mystery in Rural Greece

Blum, Richard and Eva Blum · 1970

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.24 | ¥5,749)

London, England, Chatto & Windus, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine social survey, part ethnology, founded on ancient Greece, part ethnography, built upon contemporary customs and practices surrounding sickness and healing, conception and birth. T...