Lucan: An Introduction
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1976). First Edition. Large 8vo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. 379 pp. Original maroon cloth, in plain yellow dust jacket.
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Citizens of Discord: Rome and Its Civil Wars
Oxford University Press, 2010. Large 8vo. 6.25 x 9.5 in. 333 pp. Glossy boards.
Boethius: The Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology, and Philosophy
(London): (Sandpiper Books), (1998). First Sandpiper Edition. 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.
An Essay on the Roman Senate
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. 8vo. 5.25 x 8.25 in. viii, [1] contents, [1 blank], 398 pp. + 16 pp. index. Text in.....
The Letters of Teilhard de Chardin & Lucile Swan
Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, (1993). First Paperback Edition. 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.
Short Latin Stories
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1989). Third Printing. Demy 8vo. 79 pp. Green wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with very sparse annotation.
The King is Dead; Studies in the Near Eastern Resistance to Hellenism, 334-31 B.C.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961. First Edition. 8vo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. x, 390 pp. Full russet brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Illustrated with 8 black & white plates and three-panel folding map. A crisp copy.
The Franco Codex of the Cathedral of Mexico; Transcription and Commentary
Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, (1965). First Edition. 4to. 7.5 x 10.25 in. xiii, 177 pp. Original powder blue cloth, in black & white pictorial dust jacket. The Franco codex of magnificats, presented here in modern score. Designed by ANDOR BRAUN.
Xenophon's Mirror of Princes
(Oxford): Oxford University Press, (2011). Second Printing. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. 406 pp. Original black boards, in glossy black pictorial dust jacket.
Iliad, Book XXI (Pitt Press)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968. Later Printing. 16mo. 4.25 x 6.5 in. li, 60 pp. Orange wrappers, titled in black. First published in 1921, this is the 1968 reissue. With Introduction, Notes and Vocabulary. Text in Greek and English.
Horace: The Odes. New Translations by Contemporary Poets
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2002). First Edition, First Printing. 8vo. 6.375 x 9.5 in. [viii], 312 pp. Full dark green cloth, in pictorial dust jacket. Contains page-facing translations by contemporary poets, including Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Robert Hass, John Hollander, W.S. Merwin, Rosanna Warren, Richard Wilbur, C.K. Williams, Charles Wright.....
A Commentary on Horace: Odes. Book I
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.
Digenis Akritas; The Two-Blood Border Lord
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.....
The World of Athens: An Introduction to Classical Athenian Culture (Joint Association of Classical Teachers' Greek Course Background Book)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1985). Second Printing. 8vo. 407 pp. Original pictorial wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with very sparse annotation.
The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1972). 1972 Printing. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. xi, 163 pp. Full blue cloth, in original dust jacket. Uncommon in dust jacket.
Leo Strauss and Nietzsche
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1987). First Edition, First Printing. Royal 8vo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. ix, [i], 229, [1] pp. Full green cloth, titled in black on spine, in black & white typographic dust jacket. A fresh, crisp copy.
T. Lucreti De Rerum Natura Libri Sex
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968. Fourth Printing. Large 8vo. 886 pp. Original dark blue cloth. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his 1969 ownership signature in pencil to half-title; copious annotation. Uncommon.
A Historical Commentary on Asconius
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1985. First Edition. 8vo. 5.5 x 8.75 in. 342 pp. Original green cloth. Text in English and Latin. A nice copy overall.
Menander Rhetor
(New York): (Oxford University Press), (2004). Reprint. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. lxvi, 391 pp. Glossy illustrated boards. 2004 Reprint of the 1981 Clarendon Press Edition. Edited with translation & commentary by D.A. RUSSELL and N.G. WILSON. Text in Greek and English.
The Poetical Works of John Milton (Oxford Standard Authors)
London: Oxford University Press, (1960). Second Printing. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.625 in. 628 pp. Original full Oxford blue cloth, seal in blind to upper cover, titled in gilt on spine, blue top-stain. Published as part of the Oxford Standard Authors series, 'with translations of the Italian, Latin and Greek.....
The Athenian Trireme; The history and reconstruction of an ancient Greek warship
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2000). Second Edition. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.25 in. 319 pp. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Illustrated throughout with black & white reproductions, including maps. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; unmarked.
Nicolaus of Damascus: The Life of Augustus and The Autobiography
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2017). First Edition. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. xii, 488 pp. Original black boards, in glossy teal dust jacket. Text in Greek and English.
The Vocabulary of the Letters of Saint Gregory the Great; A Study in Late Latin Lexicography
Washington DC: Catholic University of America, 1934. First Edition. 8vo. 6 x 9 in. xix, 209 pp. Plain printed wrappers. Published as Vol. 2 of 'The Catholic University of America Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Latin' series, edited by Roy J. Deferrari, Martin R.P. McGuire, and Brother Giles, C.F.X. Scarce.....
The Philosophy of Clement of Alexandria
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957. First Edition. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.625 in. xi, 205 pp. Original burgundy cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Published as Vol. III of the 'Texts and Studies: Contributions to Biblical and Patristic Literature' series, edited by C.H. DODD.
Allende: Thank You...!; Vivencias Periodisticas y Personales
Editorial Maye, (2009). First Edition. Demy 8vo. 244 pp. Original french-folded pictorial wrappers. Text in Spanish. One of 1000 copies. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; inscribed by Nena Ossa in year of publication on title page. Scarce.