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.
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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.
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.
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.....
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 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.
Lysias. Selected Speeches: XII, XVI, XIX, XXII, XXIV, XXV, XXXII, XXXIV
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1970). First Oklahoma Press Edition. Crown 8vo. 5.125 x 7.75 in. 400 pp. Original black cloth, in red illustrated dust jacket. Edited with introduction, notes, appendices by CHARLES DARWIN ADAMS. Foreword by HARRY L. LEVY. First published in 1905. Black & white frontis. photograph of.....
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.....
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.
International Kierkegaard Commentary (Vol. 12): Concluding Unscientific Postscript to "Philosophical Fragments"
(Macon, Georgia): Mercer University Press, (1997). First Edition. 8vo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. Original grey imitation leather in glossy blue dust jacket. A collection of 17 scholarly essays focussing on Kierkegaard's Postscript.
The Elegies of Propertius in a Reconditioned Text with a Rendering in Verse and a Commentary
London: Simpkin Marshall, (1931). First Edition. 8vo. 5.625 x 8.625 in. 539 pp. + 8 pp. for 'Reader's Notes'. Full white cloth, titled & ruled in gilt, top edge gilt. Contains a preface, Life of Propertius, the Elegies in Latin with page-facing translation into iambic tetrameter, and a commentary. Printed.....
Pythagoreans and Eleatics; An Account of the Interaction between the Two Opposed Schools during the Fifth and early Fourth Centuries B.C.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1948. First Edition. Demy 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 in. viii, 196 pp. Powder blue cloth, titled and stamped in blind with Cambridge arms on upper cover, titled in gilt on spine. Published as part of the Cambridge Classical Studies series, edited by R. Hackforth, D.S. Robertson.....
Pythagoreans and Eleatics; An Account of the Interaction between the Two Opposed Schools during the Fifth and early Fourth Centuries B.C.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1948. First Edition. Demy 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 in. viii, 196 pp. Powder blue cloth, titled and stamped in blind with Cambridge arms on upper cover, titled in gilt on spine; in plain printed dust jacket. Published as part of the Cambridge Classical Studies series, edited.....
Thomas Wolfe: Memoir of a Friendship
Austin: University of Texas Press, (1965). First Edition. 8vo. 6.25 x 8.5 in. [x], 154, [4] pp. Original turquoise cloth, in matching dust jacket.
Lectures on Modern Idealism
New Haven: Yale University Press, (1967). Fifth Printing. 8vo. 5.375 x 8.25 in. xvi, 266 pp. Full bright orange cloth, in decorative typographic grey dust jacket. New foreword by John E. Smith. Overall, a nice copy.
The Marriage of Emily Dickinson; A Study of the Fascicles
University Press of Kentucky, (1983). First Edition. Medium 8vo. x, 230 pp. Light red cloth in black pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed by author William H. Shurr, professor of English at Univ. of Tennesee, 'for my favorite Nashville cousin' in 1987 on front flyleaf.