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199236987Paul Astroms Forlag. 1992. Softcover. Very Good. Very faint creasing to corners of wraps.; Skrifter Utgivna Av Svenska Institutet I Athen / Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae Series in 8° XI; 209 pages . 9179160255 . Paul Astroms Forlag paperback
196054812Paris: Printed in France at the Imp. Ruegger 1960. 4to. 10 x 10 in. 14 pp unpaginated. Colour-illustrated throughout w/ 10 in. 33 1/3 rpm vinyl LP inserted into rear pocket still retaining original protective sleeve. Colour-illustrated stiff softcovers slight shelfwear NF copy. First edition in English of this Atlas Tale-Spinners interactive version of the beloved fairy tale with voiceovers including Marjorie Westbury Judith Bailey Judith Whale Michael Murray Alan Rowe John Whale and Tony Church as Bluebeard. Westbury 1906-1989 was an English radio actress and singer for over 50 years best remembered as Steve Temple wife of Paul Temple in the long running series as well as Elsa Strauss in the Hilda Tablet series. Tony Church 1930-2008 was a founding member of the new Royal Shakespeare Company with Peter Hall and later appeared in Tess Krull and the 1963 BBC production of As You Like It. Worldcat locates 1 copy Bowling Green. Printed in France at the Imp. Ruegger, paperback
196054813Paris: Printed in France at the Imp. Ruegger 73 rue Pigalle 1960. 4to. 10 x 10 in. 16 pp unpaginated. Colour-illustrated throughout w/ 10 in. 33 1/3 rpm vinyl LP inserted into rear pocket still retaining original protective sleeve. Colour-illustrated stiff softcovers slight shelfwear NF copy. First edition in English of this Atlas Tale-Spinners interactive version of the beloved fairy tale with voiceovers including Robert Hardy as Robin John Wood Geoffrey Lewis Tony Church John Baddeley Ralph Hallett Judith Whale as Lady Marian and others. Robert Hardy 1925-2017 is best remembered as Siegfried Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small Cornelius Fudge in the Harry Potter films and Winston Churchill in many different productions. Worldcat locates 1 copy National Library of New Zealand. Printed in France at the Imp. Ruegger, 73, rue Pigalle, paperback
196154811Paris: Printed in France at the Imp. M. Gros 155 rue de belleville 1961. 4to. 10 x 10 in. 14 pp unpaginated. Colour-illustrated throughout w/ 10 in. 33 1/3 rpm vinyl LP inserted into rear pocket still retaining original protective sleeve. Colour-illustrated stiff softcovers slight shelfwear NF copy. First edition in English of this Atlas Tale-Spinners interactive version of the beloved fairy tale with voiceovers including Denise Bryer Jocelyn Page Judith Whale Gillian Wood and Peggy Butt. Bryer b. 1928 is perhaps best remembered as the voice actress as Twizzle in the late 1950s Adventures of Twizzle Terrahawks science fiction series as well as the Junk Lady in Labyrinth. Worldcat locates 1 copy National Library of New Zealand. Printed in France at the Imp. M. Gros, 155, rue de belleville, paperback
197911817Adolf M. Hakkert. 1979. Softcover. Very Good. Very light shelfwear else Fine. Textblock is foxed.; 265 pages; What relationship if any do the stories preserved in ancient Greek legendary traditions have to real events and circumstances of the periods and places to which they ostensibly refer A wide range of answers to this question is to be found in the works of both popular and scholarly writers not only where it has been debated explicitly but also -and more frequently- where some kind of answer seems to be presupposed in the course of their general discussions of Greek literature and history. The present book sets out to study the development and interpretation of a substantial group of Greek legends associated with one well-known figure who was said to have originated in the East. . 9025607969 . Adolf M. Hakkert paperback
197841890Oxford Clarendon Press. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Very light pencilling to margins. Scholar's name to ffep Martin Cropp. DJ spine is sunned and discolored. Faint edgewear to DJ.; 414 pages; Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose Works and Days discusses agricultural practices and society in general. Classicists and ancient historians have turned to Works and Days for its insights on Greek mythology and religion. The poem also sheds light on economic history and ancient agriculture and is a good resource for social scientists interested in these areas. This translation emphasizes the activities and problems of a practicing agriculturist as well as the larger changing political and economic institutions of the early archaic period. The authors provide a clear accurate translation along with notes aimed at a broad audience. The introductory essay discusses the changing economic political and trading world of the eighth and seventh centuries B. C. E. while the notes present the range and possible meanings of important Greek terms and references in the poem and highlight areas of ambiguity in our understanding of Works and Days. . 0198140053 . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
198718409Oxford University Committee of Archaeology. 1987. Softcover. Very Good. Former owner's name to half-title. Laminate lifting to 1 corner. Else very minor shelfwear.; Oxford University Committee for Archaeology. Monograph No. 12; 140 pages; A comprehensive study of the mythological scenes and isolated mythical figures which appear in Laconian art chiefly on black-figure vases from about 580 BC until the end of the sixth century . 0947816127 . Oxford University Committee of Archaeology paperback
199418030I. B. Tauris. 1994. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Former owner's name in pencil and blindstamp to ffep. Else very minor shelfwear to book and DJ.; This study in comparative mythology interprets the Greek myths in the light of the mythologies of other Indo-European cultures - Indian Celtic Scandinavian Roman Greek Iranian and Ossetian. The author uses a modified version of the schema proposed by the French theorist Dumezil to consider the profound connections between such works as the "Iliad" the "Odyssey" the Indian epics - the "Ramayana" and the "Mahabharata" - the Iranian "Book of Kings" and the Scandinavian "Yaglingasaga". The book includes a long critical exposition of the discipline of comparative mythology from its 18th-century origins to the revival of the discipline by Dumezil and his followers from 1938 to the present. It also reassesses the profound critique of Dumezil which linked him with Nazi ideology.; 256 pages . 1850438315 . I. B. Tauris hardcover
19344696Librairie H. Lamertin. 1934. Softcover. Very Good. Light discoloration to spine. Very light chipping to wraps at extremities. Minor shelfwear.; 58 plates.; Études De Philologie D'Archéologie Et D'Histoire Ancieenes. Institut Historique Belge De Rome.; 305 pages . Librairie H. Lamertin paperback
198936827Routledge. 1989. Hardcover. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. Very faint shelfwear to book and DJ. Scholar's name to ffep D. Gerber.; 8 X 2 X 10 inches; 256 pages . 0415012635 . Routledge hardcover
19917360Routledge. 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Very Minor bump to base of spine. Light shelfwear to DJ. Gift inscription from author to Fergus Millar on ffep.; First full-length interpretation of the foundation sets out a completely new methodology for analysing large inscriptions and challenges some of the basic assumptions scholars have made about the origins and significance of the "Second Sophistic". Argues that Ephesians used their past to define their present during the Roman Empire and his study sheds new light on how second-century Greeks established and maintained their identities in relation to Romans Christians and jews.; 1 x 9 x 6 Inches; 192 pages; Signed by Author . 041505530X . Routledge hardcover
199315621Latomus. 1993. Softcover. Near Fine. Pages unopened. Very light shelfwear. Else fine.; Collection Latomus Volume 220; 217 pages . 2870311605 . Latomus paperback
197530324London: Panther 1975 Book. Fine. Pbk. Reprint. The Cadbury project the search for the true site of Camelothas been a major tourist atraction. Here its secretary examines not only all the conflicting and scarce facts but the remarkable power of the legend itself. Who was Arthur Crisp tight unmarked copy.269p. bibliography. index. Panther paperback
193462703New York: The Macmillan Co. 1934. 4to. 18 pp unpaginated. illustrated title colour and black & white illustrations on alternating pages. Blue pictorial publisher’s cloth white lettering & illust. front cover minor shelfwear dustsoiling w/ d.j. cover art by Sewell minor chipping & scuffing to spine dustsoiling edgewear still VG/G copy w/ former ownership markings on ffep. First edition of this uncommon Sewell title as she embellishes the classic fairy tale with her distinctive artwork. Sewell 1896-1957 was one of the most prolific artists in the 1930’s through 1950’s and this title was issued just the year after her collaboration with Laura Ingalls Wilder in the second Little House Book Farmer Boy 1933 and had also published with Macmillan “ABC for Everyday†“A head for happy†and “Blue Barns.†See: Anita Silvey Helen Sewell -- American Illustrator and Writer of Children’s Books 2025. The Macmillan Co., hardcover
1902201031-MB57Dodd Mead and Company 1902. Very good Hardcover with ornate illustrated cover 1902 illustrations and decorations by C.L. Hinton . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Cover. Illus. by Hinton C.L. Dodd Mead and Company Hardcover
1904009989Philadelphia: Henry Altemus 1904 Cream color cloth pictorially stamped in 3 colors some cover soil gift inscription dated 1905 otherwise clean. The familiar tales of The Three Little Pigs followed by Precocious Piggy and The Brave Little Tailor illustrated in color throughout by John Rae Neill who is best remembered for his work with L Frank Baum and later Oz books. . First Thus. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by John R Neill. 16mo. Henry Altemus hardcover
1979201226-MB37Oxford Univ Press 1979. Fine in Fine dustjacket as new first edition . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Oxford Univ Press hardcover
197418692E. J. Brill. 1974. Softcover. Very Good. Faint bump to top of spine. Faint dampstaining to spine.; Contents: introduction. Aphrodite's Origin in an Indo-European Tradition; Names and Epithets of Aphrodite; Aphrodite and the Chorós; Aphrodite and her Mortal Lover; Mnemosyne Bibliotheca Classica Batava : Supplementum 32; 97 pages . 9004039465 . E. J. Brill paperback
1998987Greenwood Press. 1998. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. One corner is bumped. Light shelfwear.; Signed by author: "To Lillian Feder-- who helped me find the path that would lead to this book and guided my first steps along the way. With warm regards Lillian"; Contributions to the Study of World Literature; 0.95 x 9.56 x 6.38 Inches; 264 pages; Corti focuses on the meaning and importance of the act of child murder in literary treatments of the ancient myth. She insists on the connection between the structure of tragedy and the psychology of abuse arguing that the tragedy of Medea dramatizes the violent hostility toward children which is always potentially present in patriarchal culture despite the conspicuous emphasis on positive descriptions of parental love in officially sanctioned discourse.; Signed by Author . 0313305366 . Greenwood Press hardcover
199337307The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1993. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Very light shelfwear to book. Scholar's name to ffep Bonnie Maclachlan née Ward. Dustjacket has tears chipping and creasing. Rear panel of DJ has some dampstaining.; 836 pages; Early Greek Myth is a much-needed handbook for scholars and others interested in the literary and artistic sources of archaic Greek myths -- and the only one of its kind available in English. Timothy Gantz traces the development of each myth in narrative form and summarizes the written and visual evidence in which the specific details of the story appear. . 080184410X . The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover
199333573The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1993. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Very light shelfwear to book. Dustjacket has tears chipping and creasing. DJ not sitting square.; 836 pages; Early Greek Myth is a much-needed handbook for scholars and others interested in the literary and artistic sources of archaic Greek myths -- and the only one of its kind available in English. Timothy Gantz traces the development of each myth in narrative form and summarizes the written and visual evidence in which the specific details of the story appear. . 080184410X . The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover
196216820C. H. Beck. 1962. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Scholar's name to ffep in pencil R. G. M. Nisbet. Small faint stain to textblock. Light shelfwear. Light pencil markings to margins of a few pages. DJ has a few tears chipping and rubbing.; 347 pages . C. H. Beck hardcover
198134661Hirmer Verlag. 1981. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover Slater & Dunbabin. Else very minor shelfwear to book and DJ. Includes plain slipcase.; 391 pages . 3777432202 . Hirmer Verlag hardcover
19982961Oxford University Press. 1998. Hardcover. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing.; A large number of Greek religious poems in hexameter were attributed to Orpheus as they were to similar miracle-man figures like Bakis Musaeus Abaris Aristeas Epimenides and the Sybil. Of this vast literature only two examples survive whole: a set of hymns composed at some point in the 2nd or 3rd century AD and an Orphic Argonautica composed somewhere between the 4th and 6th centuries AD. Earlier Orphic literature which may date back as far as the 6th century BC survives only in papyrus scraps or in quotations by later authors.; 296 pages; Sandpiper reprint of 1983 Edition. . 0198148542 . Oxford University Press hardcover
198638422Oxford Clarendon Press. 1986. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket.; 400 pages; The Romans saw an analogy between the ordered workings of the natural universe and the proper functioning of their own expanding empire between orbis and urbs. Philip Hardie's new work explores Virgil's poetic and mythic transformation of this imperialist ideology with reference to such traditions as the poet/cosmologer the use of allegory to extract natural-philosophical truths from mythology and poetry poetic hyperbole and the "universal expression." . 0198140363 . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover