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1858DEMO004059IBoston: Phillips Sampson and Co 1858. First edition. 8vo. Very Good. vignette title page 8 pls. 8vo 373 pages brown cloth tips of spine worn corners worn jogged sheets; Ex libris George E. Dawson of Chicago purchased Aug. 15 1901; prior ownership pencilled for August 1859; embossed bookseller's mark on free endpaper from Herman & Whitney stationery Milwaukee. <br/><br/>First Printing: has the period after Company in the single imprint no terminal ads with rear endpapers 'Poetry and the Drama' & 'School Books'; binding state A with three fleur-de-lis on spine and imprinted front endpapers. BAL 8781; Grolier List of Books That Influenced America 69; Merle Johnson HIGHSPOTS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. Vignette title page 8 plates by Augustus Hoppin: Note: Dr. Holmes objected to the illustrations and demanded that they be eliminated in later printings. Phillips, Sampson and Co unknown
1858DEMO011759IBoston: Phillips Sampson And Co 1858. Second printing. Hardcover. Good. eight plates by HOPPIN. 8vo 373 pages brown embossed cloth extremities worn first signature loosened lacks two leaves before the half-title light water spot on fore-edge of first gathering; Ex libris "A. P. Maury / Feby 3d 1859". also N. B. Beck of Missoula MT and J. York & Co. bookbinders and stationers of Nashville TN paper label on front pastedown. <br/><br/>Second printing: No period after Company in the single imprint blank blue endpapers Binding C. A tall copy 7.5 x 4.5 in. BAL 8781; Grolier List of Books That Influenced America 69; Merle Johnson HIGHSPOTS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. No vignette title page 8 plates by Augustus Hoppin. Note: Dr. Holmes objected to the illustrations and demanded that they be eliminated in later printings. Phillips, Sampson And Co hardcover
152056London MacMillan 1876 2 volumes. CXXXVIII316;XV481 p. Cloth 23 cm Some wear to the extremes of the binding; traces of a removed bookplate on the front pastedown hardcover
1334860521.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0483446947.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
197916096<p>Toronto: Clarke Irwin / Douglas & McIntyre 1979. <i><b>Signed and dated Nov. 26 '79 on the title page by author Doris Shadbolt</b></i>. First edition / First printing. Tan cloth Fine in a fine dust jacket with a touch of yellowing to the laminate.</p> Clarke, Irwin / Douglas & McIntyre hardcover
1980009363NY: Alfred A. Knopf. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Knopf 1980 first printing. 4to. 9 1/2" x 12 1/4" ix291pp. illustrated with 150 photo portraits. Black cloth with gilt titles. "John Kobal one of the world's leading film archivists has during the last twenty years discovered collected and studied a photographic treasure overlooked by the Hollywood for which it was created: the negatives and original prints of these remarkable 'glamour photographs' that were made in the 1920s and 1930s. Their function was publicity. in order to set in the minds of the audience in accordance with the studio's strategy of the moment the image of the Star." Fine in near fine dust jacket with a few short closed edge tears. . Fine. Hard. 1st. 1980. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
198139064Scholars Press. 1981. Softcover. Very Good. Minor shelfwear. Creasing to ffep. Minor pencilling.; American Philological Association. Special Publications 4; 8.9 X 5.8 X 0.6 inches; 207 pages . 0891305513 . Scholars Press paperback
198242842University of California Press. 1982. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Very minor shelfwear to book. Chipping and a few tears to DJ. Dustjacket is protected in mylar.; First comprehensive discussion in English to assemble and analyse Aeschylean drama since 1941.; 393 pages . 0520044401 . University of California Press hardcover
1986251855Haaretz Museum Tel Aviv 1986. Softcover Zustand: keine Beschädigungen keine Eintragungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten sehr gut. Haaretz Museum, Tel Aviv, paperback
159718Cambrdige CUP 1928. XLVIII160 p. Cloth. 22.5 cm Some foxing hardcover
1956028008Charles Scribner's 1956. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Maxfield Parrish. A handsome copy in strikingly bright & well-preserved covers. Interior is like new with all 12 Maxfield Parris plates present though one has come loose. Like new bronze lettering to spine. Jacket bright with moderate wear now neat in mylar. Original publication was 1937; the copyright date is 112A - 12.56 indicating the printing date was December 1956. <br/> <br/> Charles Scribner's hardcover
1927021770London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press 1927 First printing of the first edition. Pictorial paper covered boards 76pp. The seventh title in the Second Series of The Hogarth Essays. Head of spine chipped toning to spine and panel margins and some toning to endpapers else book in fine condition. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press hardcover
19703525Chicago: House of Judah n.d. ca. 1970s. 1st edition. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket as issued. VG. 4to leaflet printed on both sides. A rare piece of ephemera from the House of Judah African-American "Real Hebrew Israelite" new religious movement which was subsequently the subject of a criminal trial beginning in 1983. This leaflet appears to date from the 1970s period of the group's activity in Chicago prior to relocating to Michigan. A rare piece of fringe ephemera from the Black spiritual underground. Horizontal fold line sound overall. Chicago: House of Judah unknown
1978016597Orbis Publishing Limited 1978. Book. Illus. by Beautifully illustrated throughout. Near Fine. Half-Leather. 2nd Edition. Atlas Folio - over 23 - 25" tall. Please note just under10 kilos packed. A near fine set appears unread just sat on the shelf - Beautifully illustrated throughout. in black/white. The 3 vols half leather see scans. Vol. 1 "Comedies" Vol 2 "Histories and Poems" & Vol 3 "Tragedies and Romances" The text block on all three vol. White white. The slipcase has suffered at the bottom edge losing some colour see scan. Posting from Cornwall. Orbis Publishing Limited Hardcover
2007239New York: Little Brown and Company 2007. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Tan hardcover in dustjacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page "For Terry There is a scent a line of tracks. Follow them. Craig." And then signed in full again above his name on the title page. Upper corners bumped and a bit of bending at the spine ends. Large previous owner's gift inscription on the front free endpaper otherwise a clean unmarked copy. Unclipped jacket with matching edgewear and corner bumps still bright and attractive. 322 pp. some black and white illustrations. A great collection of essays on encounter native animals in the North American wilderness. Little, Brown and Company hardcover
197527549New York: Pantheon Books 1975. Hardcover. Translation by David Mel Paul and Margarete Paul. 8vo. Cream cloth pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 267pp. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. First U.S. edition of this Swedish writer's "Novel of the Future" to cite the jacket front panel. Boldly inscribed and signed in blue ballpoint on the half-title page by one half of the husband-wife translating team: "For / Archie and Esther / with thanks / in many languages / David Mel Paul." ARCHIE LIEBERMAN 1926-2008 is a noted Chicago photographer and author of "Farm Boy." Laid in is a Typed Letter Signed from Paul 1p 8½" X 11" Washington DC 1976 June 24. Near fine. On "United States Information Agency" letterhead Paul chats cordially and at length about various matters remarking about this book: "If THE ANIMAL DOCTOR carried you through a storm that's praise indeed! It please me no end to hear that you liked the translation knowing you read it as a skilful writer." A superb presentation copy. Pantheon Books hardcover
151198Berkeley Los Angeles University of California Press 1967. XII407 p. Cloth 23 cm Sather Classical Lectures 37 hardcover
190331020Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. 1903. Roy. 8vo. First Edition thus LARGE PAPER with fine coloured frontispiece original tissue guard captioned in red present illustrated and printed titles 12 fine coloured plates all original tissue guards captioned in red present and numerous monochrome illustrations in the text; most handsomely bound in red half morocco BY HENRY YOUNG OF LIVERPOOL watered red silk boards ruled in gilt back with five raised bands ruled in gilt second compartment lettered in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt with sporting images gilt top marbled endpapers fore-edge very faintly spotted else a splendid copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. The binding is signed on front free endpaper verso. Sumptuous edition of a sporting classic in elegantly themed contemporary binding. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., hardcover
18796406Smith Elder & Co. 1879. 8vo. First Edition; attractively bound in mid-twentieth century half calf back gilt with five raised bands second compartment with leather label lettered and ruled in giltuncut a very good bright clean copy. Miller & Matthews B10.1 Smith Elder & Co., hardcover
1839013837London: A. H. Baily 1839. Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio. "Contributed by distinguished writers and edited by T. K. Hervey." A rare work with various poems prose and engraved plates. pp. xiv 2 96 half-title page' engraved vignette title page additional letterpress title page 11 engraved plates the frontispiece plate is missing The poems include "A Sabbath on the Sea" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning the first time it appeared in print. Bound in the original textured cloth with blind stamped decoration to the boards and gilt lettering to the spine gilt vignette to the title page binding good with some general wear and rubbing cloth somewhat marked and a little frayed at the head/tail of the spine. Contents clean and tight some light staining to the odd plate. A good to very good copy. Scarce. A. H. Baily Hardcover
197936281Arno Press. 1979. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Minor shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep D. Gerber.; Greek Texts and Commentaries; 178 pages . 040511429X . Arno Press hardcover
199241278Oxford Clarendon Press. 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. DJ has very mild shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep Martin Cropp.; This book is a study of the agon or formal debate in Euripides' tragedies. In these scenes two characters confront each other often before an arbitrator or judge and make long speeches as if they were opponents in a court of law. Most of Euripides' extant plays contain an agon often of crucial importance to the central conflict of the play. Lloyd provides interpretations of the more important agones giving special attention to their dramatic context and function. Concentrating on Euripides' rhetorical skill brilliance in argument and interest in philosophy Lloyd explores the role of formal debate in Euripides. He contrasts the agon in Euripides' work with that of Sophocles and discusses extensively Euripides' relationship to fifth-century rhetorical theory and practice.; 160 pages . 0198147783 . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
199242700Oxford Clarendon Press. 1992. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Remainder mark to bottom of textblock 3 black lines. Underlining in pencil to a couple of pages.; This book is a study of the agon or formal debate in Euripides' tragedies. In these scenes two characters confront each other often before an arbitrator or judge and make long speeches as if they were opponents in a court of law. Most of Euripides' extant plays contain an agon often of crucial importance to the central conflict of the play. Lloyd provides interpretations of the more important agones giving special attention to their dramatic context and function. Concentrating on Euripides' rhetorical skill brilliance in argument and interest in philosophy Lloyd explores the role of formal debate in Euripides. He contrasts the agon in Euripides' work with that of Sophocles and discusses extensively Euripides' relationship to fifth-century rhetorical theory and practice.; 160 pages . 0198147783 . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
199216126Oxford Clarendon Press. 1992. Hardcover. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Book is fine. DJ has very mild shelfwear.; This book is a study of the agon or formal debate in Euripides' tragedies. In these scenes two characters confront each other often before an arbitrator or judge and make long speeches as if they were opponents in a court of law. Most of Euripides' extant plays contain an agon often of crucial importance to the central conflict of the play. Lloyd provides interpretations of the more important agones giving special attention to their dramatic context and function. Concentrating on Euripides' rhetorical skill brilliance in argument and interest in philosophy Lloyd explores the role of formal debate in Euripides. He contrasts the agon in Euripides' work with that of Sophocles and discusses extensively Euripides' relationship to fifth-century rhetorical theory and practice.; 160 pages . 0198147783 . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
