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(Port Townsend): Copper Canyon Press, (1995). 8vo. 188 pp. Original glossy pictorial wrappers. Translated by OLGA BROUMAS and T. BEGLEY. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; unmarked.
(Port Townsend): Copper Canyon Press, (1995). 8vo. 188 pp. Original glossy pictorial wrappers. Translated by OLGA BROUMAS and T. BEGLEY. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; unmarked.
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1848. Second Edition. 16mo. 4.25 x 6.25 in. 256 pp. Contemporary black half-leather over brown marbled boards. The Principles of Gaelic Grammar; with the Definitions, Rules, and Examples, Clearly Expressed in English and Gaelic: Containing Copious Exercises for Reading the Language, and for Parsing and Correction.....
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1963). First Edition. Large 8vo. 388 pp. Origina cream cloth, in green dust jacket. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; with his ownership signature to front flyleaf, and some very occasional annotation in pencil.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1964). First Edition. Large 8vo. 645 pp. Original brick cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Illustrated with a suite of black & white plates. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; unmarked.
(Madrid): Alianza, (1984). First Paperback Edition. 12mo. 174 pp. Original lavender wrappers. Edited with an introduction and notes by CHRISTOHER MAURER. Text in Spanish. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; virtually unmarked.
(Madrid): Cátedra, (1997). First Edition. Demy 8vo. 5.25 x 8.25 in. 938 pp. Original glossy wrappers. Libro I (1910-1926) al cuidado de Christopher Maurer; Libro II (1927-1936) al cuidado de Andrew A. Anderson. Text in Spanish. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer. This copy signed.....
London: The Clarke Company, (1899). First Thus. 4to. 405 pp. Original green cloth, with printed title label affixed to spine, top edge gilt. Limited edition, numbered 505 of 1000 copies. Illustrated with several tissue-guarded plates. Vol. III only, containing Byron, Livy, Pindar, Hesiod, Sappho, Thucydides, etc. etc. etc. Text in.....
New York: Modern Library, [c. 1964]. Later Printing. 16mo. 609 pp. Original bluish green cloth. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his 1968 ownership signature to front flyleaf & half-title, sparse annotation, including 'what a banal selection!' at Contents.
London: Ernest Benn, (1980). First English Edition. Demy 8vo. 626 pp. Original blue cloth, in glossy purple dust jacket. Translated with introductions by CHARLES E. PASSAGE. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his ownership signature in black ink to front flyleaf, some light pencil.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1962. First Edition. 16mo. 64 pp. Original wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; with his ownership signature to half-title, otherwise unmarked.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1970). First Edition, First Printing. 8vo. 143 pp. Original white quarter-cloth over bluish grey boards, in glossy blue and white dust jacket. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his December 1970 ownership signature in pencil to front flyleaf.....
Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1958. First Edition. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. ix, [iii], 292 pp. Full bluish-green cloth in original yellow dust jacket. Frontispiece portrait of Housman from a sketch by FRANCIS DODD. Inscribed by author Maude M. Hawkins in an attractive hand on front free endpaper: 'To Mrs.....
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, (1973). Eighth Printing. Demy 8vo. 5.5 x 8.125 in. [x], 241, [5] pp. Original illustrated boards, in matching dust jacket. Translated by RICHMOND LATTIMORE. Illustrated with several black & white reproductions by RICHARD WILT. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl.....
Napoli (Naples): Edizioni Morra, (1977). First Edition. Oblong 8vo. 9.5 x 6.125 in. Unpaginated. Printed card wraps. Text in English & Italian. Illustrated with black & white reproductions from Higgins's rough sketches for the terra cotta. 'These epitaphs are meant to evoke the ancient Greek & Latin tradition of epitaphs.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. Fourth Printing. 12mo. 5.375 x 7.75 in. [xiv], 190 pp. + index of first lines. Original silver-flecked fuschia cloth, skiver label titled in gilt to spine, dark blue top-stain; in lavender foil dust jacket. Laid in are three consecutive, affectionate letters penned by poet.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First Edition. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. [viii], 93, [2], [1 blank] pp. Original burgundy cloth, titled in gilt on spine with vignette in blind to upper cover; in blue dust jacket printed in red. Title page illustrated with reproduction of wood engraving.....
Penguin, (1965). Later Printing. 16mo. 469 pp. Original black pictorial wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; virtually unmarked.
(New York): Penguin, (1965). Later Printing. 16mo. 365 pp. Original black pictorial wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his ownership signature to first page.
London: Macmillan, 1893. First Thus. Crown 8vo. 5.125 x 7.375 in. xxxi, [i blank], 236 pp. From Macmillan's charming Cranford series, bound in publisher's forest green cloth, elaborately decorated in extra gilt, all edges gilt. Profusely illustrated, with 130 black & white reproductions including tissue-guarded frontis., by CHARLES E. BROCK.....
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. First Edition. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. lviii, 440 pp. Original cranberry red cloth, titled in gilt on spine. From the library of University of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with several marginalia in pencil, a few in ink. A serviceable copy.
London: Bell and Daldy, [1871]. First Thus, Second Printing. Small 8vo. 4.375 x 6.875 in. lxxiv, 180 pp. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in brown polished half-calf over reddish brown cloth, titled & ornamented in gilt on spine in six compartments, with dark brown morocco spine labels; marbled endpapers. Illustrated with decorated.....
Athens: Ohio University Press, (1972). First Edition. 8vo. xlviii, 148 pp. The Grottaferrata Version of the Byzantine epic poem Digenis Akritas, translated with an introduction & notes by Denison B. Hull, noted architect, Greek scholar, and recipient of the Gold Cross and the Order of the Phoenix. Uncommon in hardcover.....
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. First American Edition. Two volumes. 16mo. Original green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with very sparse pencil annotation.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First Edition. Large 8vo. 239 pp. Original cream quarter-cloth over grey paper, in glossy green dust jacket. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; with several verses written and re-written in pencil on rear blanks.
London: J. Buckland, J. Rivington, et al. 1790. Second Edition. Complete in 75 volumes. 8vo. 4 x 6.5 in. Contemporary tree calf, ornamented in gilt, beautifully marbled endpapers. This second edition is augmented with works from an additional fourteen poets. Illustrated with several engraved plates. Johnson's last major work, first.....