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UK: Flame Tree Publishing, 2022. Special Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/No Jacket Issued. Chapter decorations. CONDITION: NEW 2022 Flame Tree large hardcover (embossed art front and back boards), special edition (or some just call it a first edition with another ISBN number), first printing. Chapter decorations. Decorated end pages. CONTENT: A beautiful new edition of one of the great works of literature from Classical Antiquity. Virgil's masterpiece, one of the greatest works in Western literature, was written in Latin, between 29 and 19 BCE, recalling events after the Fall of Troy over 1200 years before, as told in the famous Homeric epics of Greek literature the Iliad and the Odyssey. The great adventures of Aeneas' flight from Troy and the prophesy of his founding of a great city linked Roman dynasty to the legends of a heroic past, bringing myth and history to bear in the politics of the Roman Empire. Here in the much-loved translation by John Dryden, and accompanied by Virgil's… Read More

UK: The Lost Library, 2011. Facsimile Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. No Illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2011 Lost Library trade paperback, Facsimile Edition, no printing given. The original book was published in 1883 while this cover is dated 1885. There is only 1 B&W illustration. It also appears that the full title of the book is: Animal Lore of Shakespeare's Time: Including Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, Fish, and Insects. CONTENT: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this… Read More

Boston: G.K. Hall & Company, 1988. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Hardcover. As New/As New. 2 B&W maps. CONDITION: UNREAD 1988 GK Hall slim hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, printing not given. B&W maps illustrate. Tiny foxing top edge and inside DJ. CONTENT: This book outlines the important events in the writer's personal and professional life by extracting facts and clues from a fascinating array of documents including letters, journals, writings from those who knew him, and the most recent scholarship. It also contains a list of persons frequently referred to, with relevant biographical details, and a bibliography of the principal sources of information.

Scotland: CanonGate, 2020. 1st Edition Assumed 1st. Hardcover. New/New. No illustrations; design in gold foil image front/back covers. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Canongate (Scotland) hardcover (white boards with gold foil design on back and front boards) and dust jacket, first edition, assumed first printing. Gold end pages. CONTENT: Dante, now guided by Beatrice, faces the final third of his epic journey through the wheels of divine justice. Yet as he passes through the spheres of Heaven, he struggles with his faith, striving to understand the scales of good and evil that determine the fate of a human soul. The final book from Alasdair Gray, Paradise is a fitting conclusion to his own irreplaceable body of work, as well as to his masterful retelling of Dante's trilogy.

Huntsville: Texas Review Press, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket Issued. Tommy LaVergne (B&W photos). SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR/PHOTOGRAPHER on Title Page. What makes this book "AS New"? Same thing that makes it more valuable - signed by Author/Illustrator. AS NEW 2004 Texas Review Press large paperback (pictorial boards), first edition, first printing. B&W photos illustrate. CONTENT: "You are about to come face to face with a Texas that has always been there, but that we don't take the time to see. The magnificent photos by Tommy LaVergne and the poetry of my friend Joyce Hardy combine to remind us of the stark beauty of this state. They remind us that in this age when only new seems to count, enduring things should never be discarded. Is there poetry in the commonplace and the mundane? The answer is a resounding YES that echoes from the Hueco Tanks through the sleepy main streets, out to the hard land and `Stretches taut across the gaps of time and… Read More

Yale University Press, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 3-4 B&W era photos. CONDITION: What makes this book and DJ "as new"? I believe, but cannot prove it, that this book has been very very gently pre-read( or parts were). Yale Univ. Press hardcover (tan boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. 3-4 B&W era photos only. No major problems. CONTENT: What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hype? One of the first full-scale treatments of celebrity in nineteenth-century America, this book examines Walt Whitman's lifelong interest in fame and publicity. Making use of notebooks, photographs, and archival sources, David Haven Blake provides a groundbreaking history of the rise of celebrity culture in the United States. He sees Leaves of… Read More