Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Roman and Byzantine Papers

Baldwin, Barry · 1989

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, BrillJ. C. Gieben, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Another fine contribution to the series, London Studies in Classical Philology, being Volume Twenty-One (21). A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but com...

Fiction As History: Nero to Julian

Bowersock, G.W. · 1994

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Printing of G.W. Bowersock's influential long essay about ancient Greece historiography. Volume 58 in the Sather Classical Lectures series. Sturdy, still...

The Authoress of the Odyssey

Butler, Samuel; David Grene, translator · 1967

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1967. The Phoenix Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable...

Sappho's Island

Braddock, Joseph · 1970

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

London, England, Constable, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Eleven...

From Plataea to Potidaea: Studies in the History and Historiography of the Pentecontaetia

Badian, E. · 1993

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,027)

Baltimore, Maryland / London, England, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author, inscribed to the previous owner, the Classicist, Peter Morris Green. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little dis...

Greek Lyric Poetry: From Athens to Simonides

Bowra, C.M. · 1961

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.37 | ¥4,088)

Oxford, England, The Clarendon Press at Oxford University, 1961. Second, Revised Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy but for a pulled first signature. Blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering...

The Egyptian Book of the Dead (the Papyrus of Ani)

Budge, E.A. Wallis, transliteration and translation · 1967

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, Dover Books, 1967. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First U.S. edition. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers, less to text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Light smudging to bottom foretip...

Periclean Athens

Bowra, C.M. · 1971

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

London, Englnd, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971. 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. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of...

The Cyclades: Life Among the Insular Greeks

Bent, J. Theodore · 1885

$220.00 (€199.60 | £166.49 | ¥35,135)

London, England, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there beng currently no additional copies available on-line. A fine survey of Cyclades (Greece) by description and travelogue, an accessible history of...

Athenian Identity and CIVIC Ideology

Alan L. Boegehold and Adele C. Scafuro, eds. · 1994

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean but for miniscule gift inscription at first free endpaper (possibly from a contributor to the ...

Euphoria

King, Lily · 2014

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.95 | ¥3,577)

New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED at title page by the author of this fine fantasy reworking in New Guinea of the torrid love affairs and fieldwork pressures of Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune and Gregory Bateson. Uber...

Possession

Byatt, A.S. · 1990

$20.80 (€18.87 | £15.74 | ¥3,322)

New York, Random House, 1990. Third Printing. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. 3" in "number" line present, thus indicating, in Random House parlance of the time, a Second Printing of the First Edition. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean...

Library of Dust

Maisel, David, with essays by Geoff Manaugh, Terry Toedtemeier and Michael S. Roth · 0

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

San Francisco, California, Chonicle Books, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Library of Dust is one of "those" books that will dent your psyche (in a good way). "Dust is a peculiar substance. Less a material in its own right, with its own characteri...

The Book of Strange New Things

Faber, Michel · 2014

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

London, England, Hogarth, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A stated First Edition, First Printing, a novel that really sits up and barks. Half-dystopian, half-utopian; the magnum opus of any but the most talented writers, this being his second-best nove...

Paula Rego

McEwen, John · 2006

$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.52 | ¥12,138)

London, England, Phaidon Press, 2006. Third Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover exemplar of the stated Third Edition, revised with an additional 50+ plates. Unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shel...

Carroll Dunham Prints Catalogue Raisonne 1984-2006

Kemmerer, Allison N., Elizabeth C. DeRose and Carroll Dunham · 2008

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,111)

Andover, Massachusetts / New Haven, Connecticut, Addison Gallery of American Art, at Phillips Academy / Yale University Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shin...

Symphonic Poem: The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson

Genshaft, Carole Miller, Annegreth Taylor Nill, Leslie King-Hammond, Ramona Austin and with notes by Aminah Robinson and Carole Miller Genshaft · 2002

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.16 | ¥3,833)

Columbus, Ohio , Columbus Museum of Art, in association with Harry N. Abrams, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to the padded, pictorial hardcover bindings. Stated First E...

Beatriz Millar

Belli, Gabrielle, Luca Beatrice, Romana Loda, Gabriella Citroni · 2005

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

Mlan, Italy, Edizioni Charta, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy illustrated wraps. From the publisher...

Annie, Gwen, Lilly, Pam, and Tulip

Kincaid, Jamaica · 1989

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf / Whitney Museum, 1989. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Brilliant exemplar of a First Trade Edition, having been published first in 1986 in London. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to...

Thornton Dial: Image of the Tiger

1993

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

New York, Harry N. Abrams, in association with the Museum of American Folk Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the American Center, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A splendid homage to the work of the folk artist Thornton Dial, and with essa...