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Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1969. From flap: "(This book) communicate(s) to the modern reader an absorbing interpretation of the greatest work of Latin literature. The author concentrates on Vergil, the poet, as repsented by his final poem, the Aeneid." Ex-library with typical treatments; jacket covered in mylar. 121 pages. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

1982. Ex-personal library with address stamp and Dewey notation on cover. Pencilled price on cover. 59 pages with stampled binding. Card stock cover has photo illustration. Bright, white unmarked pages. Our photo obscures the address stamped on cover. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Stapled. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Paris: De l'Impreimerie De Firmin Didot, 1823. Bibliotheca Classica Latina sive Collectio Auctorum Classicorum Latinorum cum notis et indecibus. 3 volume set from 1822 and 1823. Volume one: Volumen Prius: 1822. Valerius Maximus de dictus factisque memorabilibus et jul. obsequens de prodigiis sum supplementis conradi lycosthenis et selectis eruditorum notis quos recensuit novisque accessionibus locupletavit Car. Benedict. Hase. 483 pages of what appears to be handmade rough cut paper. Thin wraps have some soil. There is a large chip missing from front cover and a pencilled notation on top of front cover. Pencilled price on fep. Volume 2: Volumen secundum. 1823. 568 thin handmade pages with thin wraps. Relatively bright pages with some foxing. Book is split in two at pages 400/401. Light soil to wraps. Volume 3: Volumen secundum. 1823. 496 pages. No wraps. This volume is also split at pages 400/401 and fep, half title, title page and preface are detached in a group. (Note: this… Read More

London: John W. Parker and Son, 1854. 512 pages. Some black and white illustrations. Ex-library with traditional markings, rebound May 3, 1913 (so stamped.) Pencilled price on fep. Pockets removed from inside back cover and endpaper, resulting mars. Small ink blot on page a3. In quite remarkable condition. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. 2nd. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.

New York: George Braziller, 1974. 128 pages illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, maps and drawings. A volume in the series on the history of urbanization. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefit charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Ginn and Company, 1939. Based originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" 1855. Accompanied by an interpretive and illustrative commentary. Black cloth with gilt titles and decorations. 597 pages with black and white illustrations, pull out geneology chart and color illustrated frontispiece some other color illustrations. School stamp inside front cover. Heavy; extra shipping if not sent via US Media Mail. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Pittsburgh: Classical Association of the Atlantic States, 1998. Lot of two 1998 issues of Classical Journal September/October 1998, Volume 92, Number 1 Special Issue: Articulating the Curriculum from School to College Contents include: Secondary and College Latin Textbooks Seamless Transition from High School to College Latin Reading Latin in Schools and Colleges Writing Latin in Schools and Colleges Owners stamp on front cover November/December 1998, Volume 92, Number 2 Contents include: Odysseus Confronts Nausicaa Women in Their Cups Two "Ships" in the Menaechmi Daedalus in Ovid's Metamorphose Why Teach Meleager? Pencilled price on front cover Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. Everyman's Library volume in cloth with bright gilt tiltes and decorations and spine. Gilt top faded. 292 toned pages. Last page is not cut at top. Bookplate inside cover, name and pencilled price on fep. Illustrated endpapers. Small spot on outside pages and small spot to back. Do you collect Everyman's Library volumes? Translated by Crann Kennedy. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Immortal Classics Copyright 1912, but a later printing, possibly 1930s. This two-in-one volumes contains Aristophanes 11 Comedies. 480 lightly tanned pages to this heavy volume. No additional shipping charges if sent via US Media Mail. Name and address on fep and half title, pencilled price on fep. Sunned spine, wear to top and bottom of spine and corners. Some soil to spine and light wear to covers. Separation at back seam needs to be repasted. We noted one creased page corner. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936. Stated First Edition. Maroon cloth cover with bright gilt titles; 207 pages. From Preface: "This book was conceived in a belief that today when one favorite pastime of the world is the reading of novels there ought to be a revival of interest in the two great Latin novels... Here are two racy, exciting stories full of ancient life and lore, color and flavor... These essays aim to call attention to the Satyricon and the Metamorphoses and by giving some idea of their forerunners to set them in their proper place in the history of ancient fiction." Ex-library with typical treatments. Sunned spine and sunned at top of back cover. Top of front and back covers are "wavy" where cloth is lifting from the boards. Half inch tear on back cover and several back pages. Crease in top margin of Preface page is publisher's blemish, several creased page corners. Pencilled price on fep. Gift inscription on fep. Thanks for shopping with us.… Read More

Reading, PA: Handy Book Company literally translated with explanatory notes by J.S. Watson Very unusual publication information: 1. The front cover has stamped in black at the top, "Handy Literal Translations" and at the bottom Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, New York City. 2. The book was printed with the publisher Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, Publishers (New York City) and above that is stamped Handy Book Company, Reading, Penna "publisher's of all translations formerly of (Hinds, etc.) We've never seen a successor publisher handle things in quite this way. There is no publication date in this volume, but it appears to be early 1900s. None of the other volumes we found by this publisher contained a publication date. That's unusual. Hinds, Noble & Eldredge was still publishing in 1905. Handy Book Company was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1915(they could have been in business without being incorporated.) Based on that information we date this book to the… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952. Translated by H.J. Edwards. Wrapper has minor chipping and edgewear. Dusty top; light soil to outside pages. 619 pages; plus several laid in maps; plus indices. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Cloth. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1866. With an introductory notice by Tayler Lewis; also a series of illustrations in outline. First published in 1849, this is the third edition from 1866. 8vo size brown clothbound hardcover with ornate decorations in gilt on front cover and spine cover; 451 pages with some black and white illustrations. Outside pages have faint marbling. Contents include: Ancient Deities Modern, Superior Deities Genni and Inferior Deities Demi-Gods and Heroes Mythic Fictions Pencilled notation on title page. Book plate inside front cover. Pencilled price on fep. Pencilled name and date of 1870 in lovely script on blank page after fep. This is also a stain at the seam between the two blank pages. Detached spine cover is tattered and torn and tucked inside book. Corners are bumped and quite worn and edges are also quite worn. There appears to be some foxing or very small dark spots on a least 20 pages. Several pages also have spots or soil. Genealogists and family… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. Ex-college library with traditional markings. Pocket residue inside back cover. 258 pages with some pencilled brackets, check marks and minor underlining. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. First. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953. Contents include: Prehistoric Period, About 4000-1100 BC; Geometric Period XI-Early VII Century BC; Period of Oriental Influence, About 700-5530 BC; Archaic Period in Attica, VI Century BC; Late Archaic Period, A bout 515-475 BC; Early Classical Period, About 475-440 BC; more. Ex-library with typical treatments, some blacked out. Professional library binding of green cloth with brown and white decorations on front cover and white titles on spine. 322 pages with black and white decorations and a large section of black and white photographs. We note a cello tape mend to page 39 where the tape has darkened substaintially over time with some stain transfer to page 38, a one inch tear to the bottom of title page, bumped lower corners and rough area inside back cover where pocket was likely removed. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1919. Volume XXX (volume 30) 188 pages in Greek and English. Soiled spine and two waterstains on cover. Some pages have a light waterstain at the very top center above the text. Chip at back spine seam with tear below and chip at top of spine. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1937. Volume 2 only. 353 lightly toned pages followed by a section of the publisher's other books. Green cloth with gilt titles on the slightly darkened spine. Light wear to covers; embossed design on cover. Name on inside cover and fep. Translated by George Rawlinson and edited by E. H. Blakeney; series editor Ernest Rhys. Volume 406 in the Everyman's Library series. Includes: Terpsichore; Erato; Polymnia; Urania; Calliope. We have many other volumes in the Everyman's Library available. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Boston: Private Press, 1952. Signed and inscribed on fep Private Press; 1952 Numbered edition: No. 401 is handwritten on title page. 8vo size red clothbound hardcover; unconventionally paginated in Roman Numerals throughout - about 45 pages to this delightful, slim English language volume. The author provides eight "bullet point" mini biographies for each "classical" historical notable. The book is organized by order of the subject's birth (rather than by alphabetical order) and the author has resisted slipping into Latin even to quote Caesar's "Veni, Vedi, Veci" or other well-known Latin lines. Contents include: Andronicus Naevius Ennius Pacuvius Statius Terence Cato (Elder) Accius Lucilius Varro Cicero Caesar Nepos Lucretius Sallust Virgil Horrace Ovid, more Ex-school library with typical treatments. Accessionment stamp on inside front cover has transferred some ink onto fep; and deaccessionment treatment on fep has transferred some ink onto inside back… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933. Ex-library with typical treatments. 525 lightly toned pages in great condition. Minor wear to covers and bumped lower front corner. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, Inc., 1964. Foreword by Nicholas Murray Butler. 218 pages with black and white frontispiece photograph of the author. Pages 179 to 218 are in Latin, remainder of text is in English. Ex-library with typical treatments. Bumped lower corners. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.