Books - "literature"
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Greece & Rome Studies - Virgil
paperback octavo (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1990
KEYWORDS: specials greek roman literature history virgil ian mcauslan peter walcot
Love Me
first edition hardback octavo with d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Viking 2003
KEYWORDS: specials garrison keillor literature
The Boy's Own Annual Volume XLVII 1924-1925
Quarto, illus brown cloth boards, illus eps, frontispiece fold-out of British Empire arms & badges, 788pp, illus, VG- (gutters cracked & loose at front & rear but still attached, rubbing & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, tanning, creasing to last page)
PUBLISHER: Boy's Own Paper Office 1925
KEYWORDS: Boy's own annual children's literature adventure stories history sport hobbies crafts
Jerusalem Daybook
First edition, octavo, green patterned light card covers with green lettering to spine & front cover, 59pp, VG+ (inscription in ink to fep, fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Price Milburn & Co 1971
KEYWORDS: first edition James K Baxter New Zealand literature
The Sometime Shortage (Scenes Towards a Play)
Limited numbered edition (no. 55/75), octavo, blue cloth boards with black lettering in white label to front board, 50pp, fine, in d/w, fine
PUBLISHER: Nag's Head Press 2001
KEYWORDS: RS Gormack New Zealand literature drama theatre Canterbury province play
The Scarab Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story
First edition, octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 341pp + folding plate at p32, VG (bruising & fraying to spine extrems, two 1cm closed tears to upper & lower spine extrems, fraying to spine/board folds, owner's name in ink crossed out to fep, warden's office stamps crossed out to feps, slight foxing)
PUBLISHER: Cassell & Co 1930
KEYWORDS: SS Van Dine Philo Vance first edition literature crime fiction murder
The Garden Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story
First edition, octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 270pp, VG- (amateur tape repair to spine, bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, staining to rear board upper edge, owner's name to front pastedown heavily crossed out, book title handwritten in ink verso half-title page, foxing, some pencil annotation)
PUBLISHER: Cassell & Co 1935
KEYWORDS: SS Van Dine Philo Vance first edition literature crime fiction murder
The Casino Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story
First edition, re-backed with new eps, octavo, dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 255pp, VG- (bruising & fraying to board corners, soiling to boards & spine, untidy sellotape repair & reinforcement to pages 14-17 with residue staining, tanning & foxing
PUBLISHER: Cassell & Co 1934
KEYWORDS: SS Van Dine first edition Philo Vance literature murder crime fiction
The Kennel Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story
First edition, re-backed with new eps, octavo, dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 298pp, VG (bruising & fraying to board corners, soiling & fading to spine, sellotape residue stains to boards, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: Cassell & Co 1933
KEYWORDS: SS Van Dine first edition Philo Vance literature murder crime fiction
Vergil's Italy
First edition, super octavo, grey/green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 356pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing to spine, some pencil annotation) in d/w, VG (browning, bruising to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Adams & Dart 1971
KEYWORDS: First edition Alexander G McKay history Vergil poetry literature literary criticism
Pindari Carmina juxta Exemplar Heynianum. Quibus Accesserunt Notae Heynianae, (Interpositis Quibusdam Benedictinis); Paraphrasis Benedictina; et Lexicon Pindaricum ex Integro Dammii Opere Etymologico
Super octavo, half-bound marbled heavy card boards with gilt lettering & raised bands to leather spine, teg, ii + 540pp + remaining Greek-Latin pages unpaginated, VG (rubbing to boards, spine & edges, owners' names in ink to fep, next blank page & to title page, tanning & light throughout, some pencil annotation
PUBLISHER: Sumptibus T Cadell & W Davies 1821
KEYWORDS: Henry Huntingford Latin Greek language classics Pindarus dictionary glossary literature
The Nature of Roman Comedy: A Study in Popular Entertainment
With a Foreword and Bibliographical Appendix by Richard Hunter
Super octavo, illus light card covers, xiii + 509pp, VG+ (slight creasing to covers)
PUBLISHER: Bristol Classical Press 1994
KEYWORDS: George E Duckworth classics Roman literature comedy Plautus Terence Menander Latin literary criticism text analysis
From Myth to Icon: Reflections of Greek Ethical Doctrine in Literature and Art
Super octavo, maroon cloth boards with silver lettering to spine & blind lettering to front board, frontispiece, 281pp, illus, VG+ (v slight staining to front board) in d/w, VG+ (bruising to spine extrems, 1cm closed tear to upper front/spine fold)
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1979
KEYWORDS: Helen F North Ancient Greece Greek literature art literary criticism ethics Plato politics society
Auctor & Actor: A Narratological Reading of Apuleius's Golden Ass
Super octavo, illus light card covers, illus title page, xi + 340pp, nr fine (v slight foxing to page fore-edges)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1991
KEYWORDS: John J Winkler Apuleius classics literary criticism Greco-Roman literature religious history Latin
Borderlines
paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Panther 1996
KEYWORDS: specials peter hoeg literature
The Merchant of Venice
paperback (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1977
KEYWORDS: specials william shakespeare literature plays theatre
The Student's First Greek Play: Euripidis Ion
With Notes for Beginners
First edition, ex library, super octavo, brown blind-embossed leather boards with gilt lettering to front board, printed red eps, xv + 116pp, VG- (loss of upper third of spine, tear damage to lower 4cm of spine, soiling spots to boards, bruising to board corners, ding to board upper edges, owner's name & date in ink to front pastedown, ex libris label & library stamp to fep, annotation in pencil throughout, tanning, esp to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Williams & Norgate 1861
KEYWORDS: Charles Badham Greek literature drama theatre classics Greek Language Euripidis Ion introduction glossary explanatory notes
Bretta Martyn
Paperback (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Tom Doherty Associates 1997
KEYWORDS: specials L. Neil Smith literature science fiction
Click
Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Hazard Press 1997
KEYWORDS: specials Ray Prebble literature novel fiction
Invader
Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Corgi 1982
KEYWORDS: specials Albert Fay Hill David Campbell Hill literature novel science fiction