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200316159Oxford University Press. 2003. Paperback. Near Fine. In this book Andrew Erskine examines the role and meaning of Troy in the changing relationship between Greeks and Romans as Rome is transformed from a minor Italian city into a Mediterranean superpower. The book seeks to understand the significance of Rome's Trojan origins for the Greeks by considering the place of Troy and Trojans in Greek culture. It moves beyond the more familiar spheres of art and literature to explore the countless overlapping local traditions the stories that cities told about themselves a world often neglected by scholars.; 336 pages . 0199265801 . Oxford University Press paperback
1918L0253<p>i-ii i-x-175printer's imprint with frontispiece and 7 plates. Small octavo 7 1/4" x 4 7/89" bound original publisher tan cloth with brown lettering to spine and pictorial cover in original jacket. BAL: 7168 First edition.</p><p>Uncle Remus Returns is a posthumous collection of African American folktales compiled by Joel Chandler Harris and published in book form in 1918. The volume serves as a sequel to his highly popular yet historically controversial plantation folklore series. The text originally appeared as stories published between 1905 and 1906 in the <em>Metropolitan Magazine</em> before being consolidated into a single volume. Folklore scholars note that the stories in this specific volume weave together a mix of traditional African European and regional indigenous folklore themes.</p><p>Joel Chandler Harris was an American journalist fiction writer and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton Georgia where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent the majority of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution. Harris led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris he supported a vision of the New South with the editor Henry W. Grady 1880–1889 stressing regional and racial reconciliation after the Reconstruction era. As Joel Chandler Harris fiction writer and folklorist he wrote many 'Brer Rabbit' stories from the African-American oral tradition and helped to revolutionize literature in the process.<br /><br /><strong>Condition:</strong><br /><br />Some staining to back cover previous owner's neat ink gift inscription to front end paper. Jacket edges and spine ends chipped else a very good copy in like jacket.</p> Houghton Mifflin Company 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
1983025518New York NY: William Morrow & Co. 1983. First Edition Collectible . Cloth. Good -/Good -. 1st Printing. Jacket has edge wear and rubbing protected in mylar. Jacket also has several tears that had been previously repaired with tape it also appears as though they had marked the spots with marker. The inside of the jacket has some water damage. Boards have shelfwear and bumping. Cloth is dusty/lightly soiled. The cloth on the bottom edge of front board has a 2.5 inch tear. Binding is cracked but the pages are secure. Bright clean pages no marks or tears. Decorative endpapers. <br/> <br/> William Morrow & Co. hardcover
199137228Paul Aströms Förlag. 1991. Softcover. Near Fine. Skrifter Utgivna Av Svenska Institutet I Athen / Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae Series in 8° X; 128 pages . 9179160220 . Paul Aströms Förlag paperback
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
198636227Oxford Clarendon Press. 1986. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket. Corners a bit rounded.; 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
201215567Éditions Latomus. 2012. Softcover. Fine. Mythos generell und der Troja-Mythos im besonderen der sich vor allem um die Gestalten von Paris und Helena rankt war immer schon offen für unterschiedliche Deutungen konnte daher auch für die Vermittlung politischer oder ideologischer Botschaften „maniuliert“ werden. In diesem Buch werden zwei unterschiedliche und doch vergleichbarte Beispiele präsentiert: Ovid läßt in Heroides 16 und 17 bzw. Heroides 5 Paris und Helena bzw. Die von Paris verlassene Nymphe Oenone den Mythos von Urteil des Paris und dessen Liebe zu Helena jeweils anders erzählen. Es handelt sich dabei nicht bloß um literarisches Spiel sondern Ovid reflektiert auf einer Metaebene allgemein über das Problem der Manipulierbarkeit des Mythos im speziellen des Mythos über Troja und Aeneas durch Vergil zum Zweck panegyrischer Aussagen. Am Ende des 11. Jh. Dichtet Baudri von Bourgueil ebenfalls ein Versepistelpaar in dem er zeigt wie Paris und Helena ihren eigenen Mythos bzw. Dessen allegorische Aussage mißverstehen und derart ins Unglück stürzen. Dasselbe Problem der richtigen d. H. Nicht manipulierenden Deutung von Mythos und der Dichtung die von solchen Mythen handelt liegt auch dem poetischen Brief Baudris an die Nonne Constantia und deren vom Dichter fingierten Antwort zugrunde – ein Problem das Baudri persönlich betraf da er wegen seiner Dichtungen in ovidischem Stil Kritik ausgesetzt war.; Collection Latomus Volume 334; 105 pages . 287031275X . Éditions Latomus paperback
1989002615New York: Harper and Row 1989. Approx 250 pages with numerous color illustrations photos and maps. Book is in very clean condition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Harper and Row hardcover
200441938London: Orion 2004. First edition first prnt. Illustrated by Geoffrey Taylor. Signed by Paver on the title page. Includes an illustrated booklet with the same title containing the first four chapters of the novel and author's note distributed for promotional purposes by Ottaker's. 5.5 x 8.5 inches glossy pictoral stapled wraps. 30pp. The booklet is an unread copy in Fine condition. The book is an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. First volume in Paver's "Chronicles of Ancient Darkness" series. Paver's first book. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reader's Excerpt. Orion Hardcover
1949biblio423<p>This is a hardly opened extremely rare copy of an largely unknown Hungarian/Viennese woman surrealist writer who published in Hungarian with this exception. These two early 20th century folk tales reveal a romantic sensibility with fantastic shadings in the vein of Meyrinck even Kafka from a writer virtually unknown in the U.S. She is a discovery waiting to be made for the energetic student of the modern melding of Eastern European artistic traditions.</p><p>Photo on request.</p> Universum Book Publishing Company hardcover