European / Greek from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. Cloth, vi, 202 pages; 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Tips lightly bumped. Fine DJ. "In the early 1990s, Classics professor Mary Lefkowitz discovered that one of her faculty colleagues at Wellesley College was teaching his students that Greek culture had been stolen from Africa and that Jews were responsible for the… Read more about this item

New York: Heritage Press, 1959. xii, 52, xviii, 62 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Text in English; translated from the Greek. Illustrations by Marian Parry and John Austen. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Sandglass (Heritage Club monthly newsletter) laid-in. Slipcase with light soiling. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Beautiful woodcut illustrations. . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Basic Books; Perseus, 2010. vii, 566 pages, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to boards, age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "Song of Wrath tells the story of Classical Athens' victorious Ten Years' War (431-421 BC) against grim Sparta -- the first… Read more about this item

Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1963. Cloth, 107 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed and warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Age toning, light soiling. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. Freely adapted from the Hippolytus of Euripides by Leighton Rollins. Illustrated by Carolyn Huff Kinsey.. SIGNED. 1st. Hardcover. Very… Read more about this item

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. Cloth, x, 358 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture, Volume 24. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket, with surface rubbing, protected in a mylar cover. "Erotic sensibility pervaded the art, literature, and social mores of the ancient Greeks. Early religious figurines emphasize sexual features, and written documents confirm that the people… Read more about this item

New York: Thames and Hudson, 1985. 180 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. First paperback edition. "The image of Sparta as a repressive warrior society that shunned the arts has been the accepted view well into our own century. Drawing on contemporary written evidence and archaeological finds, L. F. Fitzhardinge portrays… Read more about this item

London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Cloth, xiv, 225 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Plato's legend of Atlantis has become notorious among scholars as the most absurd lie in literature. Partially dismissed because of the philosopher's eclipsing reputation in the twentieth century in conjunction with Nazi adoption of the Atlantis allegory,… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002. 157 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's name,, barely visible/title page, otherwise unmarked. Light edgewear. "What is a pyxis? Who was the Amasis Painter? What is Six's technique? This illustrated book presents definitions and descriptions of these and many other Greek vase shapes, painters, and techniques encountered… Read more about this item

Athens: Ekdotike Athenon S. A., 1999. 176 pages, colour illustrations, colour maps; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: RHODES: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND, 7; THE KNIGHTS OF RHODES; THE ORDER OF ST JOHN IN JERUSALEM, 11; THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KNIGHTS ON RHODES, 12; COMPOSITION OF THE ORDER AND ADMINISTRATION; Social and Ethnic Composition, 14; Central Administration; Officials,… Read more about this item

Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1959. [32] pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Excavations of the Athenian Agora, Picture book, no. 3. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dogeared a couple of times. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. "Small sculptured figures of humans and animals have been found all over the Agora, ranging in date from the earliest… Read more about this item

San Bernardino, CA: California State University, 1989. 86 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Exhibition held at the University Art Gallery, California State University, San Bernardino, May 5 to June 2, 1989; and the Art Galleries, California State University, Northridge, February 26 to March 30, 1990. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. . 1st.… Read more about this item

Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1971. 1 volume (unpaged), illustrations; 22 cm. Excavations of the Athenian Agora, Picture book, no. 12. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. "As well as being a political center, the Agora was the focus of a noisy and varied commercial life. This booklet illustrates the archaeological,… Read more about this item

New York: David Findlay Galleries, 1979. 1 volume (unpaged), illustrations (some colour); 20 cm. Exhibition held November 7 to December 1, 1979. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate edgewear to wraps. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Athens and New Rochelle, Ny: Ekdotike Athenon S. A.; Caratzas Brothers, Publishers, 1977. Cloth, 418 pages, colour illustrations; 32 cm. Firm binding, unmarked. Expected browning, edges & endpapers lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.

Athens: Hesperos Ediitons, 2004. 96 pages, colour illustrations; 24 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. . Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies, 1978. Cloth, 164 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates, illustrations; 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to boards. Age toning, edges lightly soiled. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to.

Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1968. Cloth, 223 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour); 34 cm. Translation of Gela; destin d'une cite grecque de Sicile. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top right corner bumped. Age toning. Dust jacket price-clipped on the front flap, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly… Read more about this item

Athens: Melissa Publishing House, 1986. 40 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Byzantine Art in Greece: Mosaics Wall-Paintings Series. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1960. Cloth, 39 pages, mounted colour illustrations; 29 cm. The Faber Library of Illuminated Manuscripts. Firm binding, unmarked. Expected browning. Price-clipped dust jacket protected in a mylar cover.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Athens: American College of Greece, 2006. 80 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 26 x 26 cm. Edition of 3000 copies. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates of works by Greek artist Ghika (Nico Hadjikyriaco Ghika) (1906-1994), who lived in Paris from 1922 to 1934, creating cubist/art deco compositions and reliefs.… Read more about this item