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$24.50
2g27/13

Vergil's Italy


MCKAY, ALEXANDER G.

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

$8.50
xxeld57603

Selected Shorter Poems of Thomas Hardy


WAIN, JOHN (Intro)

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 1972

KEYWORDS: specials John Wain literature Thomas Hardy poetry

$26.50
2g28/41

Pindar's Pythian Odes: Essays in Interpretation


BURTON, R. W. B.

First edition, super octavo, blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, viii + 202pp, VG+ (foxing to eps & page edges) in d/w, VG- (browning to spine & edges, foxing, cellotape residue stains internally, 2cm closed tear with 13cm diagonal crease to lower front edge)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1962

KEYWORDS: first edition RWB Burton Pindar Pythian odes Greek literature poems poetry classics literary criticism

$8.50
xxele57677

Modern Poetry from Africa


MOORE, GERALD & BEIER, ULLI (EDS.)

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: Penguin Books 1970

KEYWORDS: specials Gerald Moore Ulli Beier poetry African literature anthology native poets Africa

$12.50
xxele57720

Homer


Inside the Ancient World

THORPE, MARTIN

Ex-library softcover super 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: Macmillan Education Limited 1983

KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Martin Thorpe Homer classical studies literature literary analysis oral poetry tradition

$22.50
xxele57737

Playing God


COLQUHOUN, GLENN

First edition Softcover 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: Steele Roberts Ltd 2002

KEYWORDS: first edition specials Glenn Colquhoun New Zealand poetry medical poems medicine anthology

$10.00
xxelf57789

Greek Literature in Translation


GRANT, MICHAEL (ED.)

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: Penguin Books Ltd 1973

KEYWORDS: specials Michael Grant history Greek literature classical studies prose poetry lterary analysis

$30.00
2g29/18

The Oresteia of Aeschylus


WARR, GEORGE C. W.

This Volume only, quarto, green cloth boards with black lettering to spine & black statue motif to front board, frontispiece, liii + 220pp, illus, VG- (browning to spine, light bruising to spine extrems, browning to eps, foxing & tanning to pages & page edges)

PUBLISHER: George Allen 1900

KEYWORDS: George CW Warr classics Greek literature dramatic poetry poets poems essays literary criticism Aeschylus Oresteia

$40.00
2g29/40

Aeschyli Persae


Ad Fidewm Manusriptorum Emendavit Notas et Glossarium

BLOMFIELD, CAROLUS JACOBUS

TEXT IN LATIN & GREEK, book is re-bound & has four-page prospectus for something else bound in at front, super octavo, blue boards with green cloth spine with black lettering in white label to spine, xxxi + 228pp, VG- (heavy rubbing, bruising & soiling to boards & spine, owner's name in ink to fep, ex library stamp to page preceding originaal 1818 title page, heavy foxing & tanning)

PUBLISHER: Cantabrigiae 1818

KEYWORDS: Carol Jacob Blomfield Aeschylus Persians ancient Greece Rome literature poetry poems literary criticism classics TEXT IN GREEK & LATIN

$25.00
2g31/2

The Literature of the Anglo-Saxons


ANDERSON, GEORGE K.

First edition, super octavo, orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, v + 431pp, VG+ (slight soiling to rear board fore-edge, owner's name & date in ink to fep, foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1949

KEYWORDS: first edition George K Anderson Anglo-Saxon literature literary criticism poetry drama King Alfred Wulfstan

$12.50
xxemb57880

The Art of The Odyssey


CLARKE, HOWARD W.

softcover 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Prenctice-Hall 1967

KEYWORDS: Specials Howard Clarke The Odyssey Odysseus Literature Literary Criticism Homer Homeric Poetry

$22.50
xxemb57923

The Stone Skippers


BURGHAM, IAN

First edition hardcover octavo (NF) in d/w (NF) ; 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Maclean Dubois 2007

KEYWORDS: first edition specials Ian Burgham poetry poems romance

$26.50
xxemb57924

The Indecipherable Colours of the End


PRATIKAKIS, MANOLIS

First edition softcover 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Dionysia Press 2007-8

KEYWORDS: first edition specials Manolis Pratikakis Greek poet poetry poems

$15.00
xxemd58028

Roman Vergil


KNIGHT, W.F. JACKSON

Hardcover super octavo (VG-) some sun fading ; lacks d/w ; 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber Limited 1945

KEYWORDS: specials E.F. Jackson Knight biography classical studies Vergil Virgil literature socidety tradition poetry

$12.50
xxeme58099

Middle English Lyrics


LURIA, MAWELL S. & HOFFMAN, RICHARD L.

softcover 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 cost

PUBLISHER: W W Norton & Company 1974

KEYWORDS: specials Maxwell S Luria Richard L Hoffman middle english poetry critical literature history

$100.00
1j41a/28

Martial Book XIII: The Xenia


Text with Introduction & Commentary

LEARY, T. J. (Ed)

First edition, super octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 209pp, VG+ (bookseller's stamp to fep) Without the stamp, book condition would be 'fine'. In d/w, VG+ (bruising & creasing to upper spine extrem, slight soiling to rear)

PUBLISHER: Gerald Duckworth 2001

KEYWORDS: first edition TJ Leary classics Martial epigrams Xenia Saturnalia Latin literature ancient Rome food drink poems poetry literary criticism

$10.00
xxenb58261

English Religious Verse


An Anthology

MAY, G. LACEY (ED.)

Hardcover octavo (VG) ; lacks f.ep ; 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: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1937

KEYWORDS: specials G Lacey May poetry English relgious verse regious poems anthology

$15.00
xxenc58270

The Vision of Piers Plowman


LANGLAND, WILLIAM ; WELLS, HENRY W. (TRANS.)

Ex-library first edition thus hardcover super octavo (VG) in d/w (G) ; some sun fading ; 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: Sheed and Ward 1935

KEYWORDS: ex-library first edition thus William Langland Henry W Wells poetry English epic

$9.50
xxend58355

A Rhyming History of Britain


55BC - AD1966

MUIRDEN, JAMES

Ex-library hardcover octavo (VG) in 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: Constable & Robinson Ltd 2003

KEYWORDS: ex-library specials James Muirden humour history England Britain Ireland Scotland Wales United Kigndom poem poetry

$38.50
1f74/11

Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy


SILK, M. S.

Super octavo, illus yellow light card covers with black lettering to spine, 456pp, nr fine (inscription in ink to front pastedown)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2002

KEYWORDS: MS Silk Aristophanes literary criticism classics ancient Greek literature comedy comic poetry

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