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Neuchatel: Éditions du Griffon, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Wraps rathers soiled & worn.. Small 4to. 20 pp. + black & white reproductions of photographs. Original illustrated wrappers. Text in French. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with list in pen with doodle to rear cover.

New York: Herder Book Center, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Light soiling to covers, else near fine.. Coil-bound. 3.5 x 4.875 in. Unpaginated. With color illustrations. Includes quotations from Ovid, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, et al.

New York: Modern Age Books, 1937. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good indeed. Covers moderately worn. Light, occasional soiling and foxing to text. Lacking the uncommon dust jacket. Binding secure.. 4to. 8.25 x 11.25 in. 54, [1], [1 blank] pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Fully illustrated with reproductions of black & white photographs. Southern preacher, organizer, and activist Howard Kester's copy, with his ownership signature to half-title and title page. 'If you have not seen these faces, there is much that you have yet to learn about America' (inside flap).

New York: P.J. Kenedy, 1961. Hardcover. Very near fine. Very lightly worn. A touch of rubbing to corners. Binding square and tight, text clean and bright.. 16mo. 4.5 x 7 in. 8, lx, 1699, 7 pp. Deluxe binding in black 'genuine leather', ornamented and titled in gilt, all edges red under gold, with five ribbon markers and gilt dentelle. Illustrated throughout with the enchanting full-color Beuronese plates that alone recommend the Maryknoll Missal, along with black & white vignettes. Ordinary of the Mass printed in red & black. Traditional handsmissal, text in Latin and Greek. Approbations. A nice copy of the deluxe issue of the otherwise common Maryknoll missal.

New York: Modern Library, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in good jacket. Some toning and light soiling to heavily chipped and worn jacket. Text clean and unmarked. Binding square, and even rather fresh, but lightly shaken with crease to spine. Sliver of sunfading to crown and foot of spine. Gilt remains very bright.. 16mo. 4.5 x 6.625 in. xv, 879 pp. Toledano Binding Style No. 6 in blue balloon cloth, Kent's flying torchbearer device in gilt to upper cover, gilt titling to spine, top edge sumikuro; orange Kent endpapers. Presented in publisher's blue-banded typographic dust jacket. Stated First Modern Library Edition. Edited with an introduction by American radical VICTOR FRANCIS CALVERTON, a.k.a. GEORGE GOETZ, who founded the Modern Quarterly. A comprehensive volume, with contributions from Marcelin Boule, Franz Boas, J.G. Frazer, Edward Sapir, J. Bachofen, Lewis H. Morgan, Westermarck, Rivers, and many others. A fresh copy of an uncommon Modern Library First. Andes 149.2.1G. Toledano 149.2.

London: Routledge, 1996. Reprint. Paperback. Very good. 8vo. 272 pp. Glossy black wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with very sparse annotation.

Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1968. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. Binding sound. Lacking dust jacket.. Demy 8vo. 221 pp. Original blue boards. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; with his 1969 ownership signature to front flyleaf, and occasional, light pencil annotation.

(Gijón): Ediciones Trea, 1998. First Spanish Edition. Paperback. Very good. Lightly worn. Binding square and tight, text unmarked.. 8vo. 6 x 8.25 in. 174 pp. Original glossy pictorial french-folded wrappers. Translated into Spanish by XILBERTO LLANO CAELLES. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer.

Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in near fine jacket. A couple very small closed tears along top of jacket.. Small, oblong 8vo. 6.875 x 4.75 in. Unpaginated. Illustrated paper boards in matching glossy dust jacket. Introduction by TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD. Illustrations by JIM PADGETT. Warmly inscribed by Pearl as 'Phil' on front free endpaper, 'Marge -- | wish I could | be with you | every Christmas -- | and *any* day!! | Love you so | good! | Phil'. Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon (1912-1996), known at the Grand Ole Oprey & elsewhere as Cousin Minnie Pearl, was a lover of hillbilly culture and lived in the fictional town of Grinders Switch, Tennessee.

(Boston): St. Paul Editions, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Covers lightly worn, moderately rubbed at extremities, with light soiling. Binding square and tight, text clean and bright.. Small folio. 5.5 x 8.375 in. 24, [2], [6 blanks] pp. Fully illustrated with reproduction of drawings in black and blue.

New York: Modern Library, 1934. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Very good indeed in very good jacket. Faint previous ownership stamp to front flyleaf, along with '4 December 1935' date in black pen, which happens to have been Carlyle's birthday; light offsetting to endpapers. Jacket lightly soiled & edgeworn, spine panel moderately toned. Binding square & tight, text clean.. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.25 in. xxxi, 748 pp. Blue balloon cloth; in illustrated dust jacket printed in black & orange, with 255 titles advertised on verso. Illustrated with a suite of sixteen black & white plates. A handsome copy of this early Modern Library Giant, uncommon in jacket. Toledano 13.1.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. Heavy toning to spine.. 4to. 580 pp. Original illustrated boards. Illustrated with several reproductions of photographs. Text in Spanish and English. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with some annotations.

New York: Knopf, 1925. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Nearly fine in very good dust jacket, lightly worn at head & foot of spine panel. Spine gilt a touch dull; previous ownership signature to bottom of front pastedown. Orange Borzoi device on spine panel moderately faded, as usual. Binding square & tight, pages crisp.. 12mo. 5.25 x 7.75 in. 283 + [1], [4 blanks] pp. Publisher's fine indigo quarter-linen over fine orange linen, titled in gilt on spine, top edge orange-red; white dust jacket, illustrated on front panel. Willa Cather's first commercially-successful novel. One of 20,000 copies. Crane A14. A fresh copy in a bright jacket.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961. Early Printing. Paperback. Good.. 8vo. 234 pp. Original wrappers. Translated by RAE DALVEN. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; virtually unmarked.

London: Folio Society, 1962. First Folio Society Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in very good slipcase. Spine moderately sun-faded. Slipcase rubbed at joints & scuffed. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.625 in. 242 pp. Purple buckram blocked with gilt design, purple top-stain; presented in publisher's plain slipcase. With several black & white illustrations. A nice copy overall.

(London): (Sandpiper Books), 1998. First Sandpiper Edition. Hardcover. Four pages of highlighting to Introduction, otherwise fine in near fine dust jacket. Binding square & tight, text otherwise clean & bright.. 8vo. 5.625 x 8.75 in. xv, 313 pp. + ads. Dark blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, in original glossy dust jacket. Reprint of the 1981 Oxford Edition. Uncommon in dust jacket.

Baltimore: Kelly, Hedian & Piet, 1859. First Thus. Hardcover. Good. Moderate edgewear to covers, with some soiling. Rear free endpaper excised. Scattered foxing throughout. Some cracking at hinges yet binding remains firm, text unmarked.. 245 pp. 'Kelly, Hedian & Piet's Cheap Stereotype Edition'. Flexible brown cloth, with publisher's blue printed title label affixed to upper cover. Originally published in 1737, this ephemeral edition uncommon.

Cambridge: Printed by J. Bentham, Printer to the University; and sold by W. Thurlbourn and T. Merrill; J. Whiston, R. Dodsley, and M. Cooper; J. Fletcher; and J. Hildyard, 1750. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Heavy edgewear; endpapers excised. Small, unobtrusive previous ownership signature in contemporary hand on title page. Binding square & tight, text otherwise clean & bright. Zeuxian Society (Caldwell Institute) bookplate to front pastedown, with the motto nunc adbibe puro pectore verba (Hor. Ep. 1.2.67 'now drink up words with a bright, undefiled mind'). The Caldwell Institute, named after Joseph Caldwell, the first president of the University of North Carolina, was a short-lived, early 19th-century Presbyterian school in North Carolina designed to provide a classical education imbued with Christian principles.. 8vo. 5.25 x 8.25 in. viii, [1] contents, [1 blank], 398 pp. + 16 pp. index. Text in English, with notes in English, Latin & Greek. Contempoary brown calf, with five raised spine… Read More

New York: Harper and Row, 1968. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in like unclipped jacket. The merest trace of soiling and edgewear to covers; some spotting to top edge. A touch of offsetting to endpapers. Binding square and tight, text clean and bright.. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. 315, [5 blanks] pp. Original blue cloth, in pictorial dust jacket. Translated by RENÉ HAGUE. A nice copy.

Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 1993. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Light edgewear.. 4to. 7 x 10 in. 316 pp. Glossy hunter green wrappers. Edited by THOMAS M. KING, S.J., and MARY WOOD GILBERT. Foreword by PIERRE LEROY, S.J. Inscribed by editor MARY GILBERT on half-title.