Detective Arthur's Biggest Case -- Color & Wipe-off Book
Golden Book, [1980]. First Edition, First Printing. Spiral bound. "This Color and Wipe-off Book features nine pages of imaginative picture situations children can complete with crayons."
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Index Verborum in Ciceronis Rhetorica
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 8 x 11 in. xxi; 1160 pp. Heavy; extra shipping may apply.
The Ethics of Aristotle
London: Methuen, 1900. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9 in. lii, 502 pp. + Methuen catalogue. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, edited with an introduction and commentary by John Burnet. Text in Greek, with notes and introduction in English.
Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. xii; 340 pp.
Scouting for Boys (The Original 1908 Edition): A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. First Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.25 x 7.75 in. 382 pp. Illustrated in black & white.
Ancient Rhetoric and Poetic: Interpreted from Representative Works
Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1959. First Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.25 in. xiv, 261 pp.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: A Commemorative Pop-Up
New York: Little Simon, 2000. Robert Sabuda. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 8.5 x 10.25 in. [14] pp. Fully illustrated with exquisite color pop-ups by Robert Sabuda. Signed by Sabuda on first page, also reads "Remember there's no place like home!"
The Stupid Joke
The Fantod Press, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. 6 x 5 in. [32] pp. Illustrated with reproductions of drawings by Edward Gorey. Number 413 of 500 copies, signed by Gorey as the "translator" Mrs. Regera Dowdy on the colophon.
Education in Ancient Rome; From the Elder Cato to the Younger Pliny
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1977. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. xii, 404 pp. Illustrated in black & white.
Tragic Rites: Narrative and Ritual in Sophoclean Drama
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. xi; 237 pp.
75 Life Lines
The Jargon Society, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Oblong octavo. 8.25 x 5.25 in. Unpaginated. Cover montage by Joel Singer, frontispiece photgraph by Robert Pruzan. Designed and produced by the Arion Press in San Francisco. Limited edition, numbered 7 of 75 copies and signed by James Broughton, Joel Singer...
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric
Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, (2009). First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Octavo. 6 x 9 in. xxi; 457 pp. Occasionally illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of historical art.
Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 6.5 x 9.25 in. xix; 226 pp.
Sonnets from the Sherlockeuse, Or A Baker's (Street) Dozen
New York: Baskerville Publishers, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Staplebound wraps. Thin octavo. 5.5 x 8.5 in. Unpaginated.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Medical Digression
London: Ash & Co., 1951. Second Printing. Staplebound wraps. Thin octavo. 5.25 x 8.5 in. 28 pp.
George Grote: A Biography
London: University of London and the Athlone Press, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 9.75 in. x, 196 pp. Includes 2-panel folding Grote geneological map.
Holmesian Clerihews
Culver City, CA: Pontine Press, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. Staplebound wraps. Thin octavo. 5.25 x 8.25 in. 17 pp. Illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of original Boguslavsky Turf Cigarette Cards.
May I Bring a Friend?
New York: Atheneum, 1964. Beni Montresor. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Small thin quarto. 8 x 9.75 in. 47 pp. Fully illustrated with reproductions of color drawings by Beni Montressor.
The Magic Carpet and Other Tales
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, (1987). Walter Andersen. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 8 x 12.25 in. 184 pages. Fully illustrated with color reproductions of linoleum block prints by Walter Anderson. Nice contextual presentation of Anderson's wonderful linocuts. Inscribed on half-title by Douglas, Anderson's niece and his daughter.
Ophelia's Shadow Theatre
Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1989. Friedrich Hechelmann. First Edition in English, First Printing. Hardcover. Thin quarto. 9.5 x 12 in. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated in color. Translated from the German by Anthea Bell.
Tragedy on the Comic Stage
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. x; 267 pp.
Pindar: A Commentary
Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1965. 1961 reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. xxviii; 489 pp.
Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy: A History of Greek Epic, Lyric, and Prose to the Middle of the Fifth Century
New York / London: Helen and Kurt Wolff / HBJ, 1975. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. xii; 555 pp.
The Man Who Planted Trees
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1995. Martine Franck. First LEC Edition. Hardcover. Folio. 14.5 x 17.75 in. (viii), 24, (5) pp. Illustrated with five photogravure plates. From a limited edition of 300 hand-numbered copies, of which this is number 23. Signed by Martine Franck on colophon. Includes laid in prospectus. Text in English and French.
The Chinese Obelisks: Fourth Alphabet
No place: The Fantod Press, (1970). Edward Gorey. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Oblong duodecimo. 6 x 5 in. Unpaginated. Originally part of the set, Three Books from the Fantod Press [II]. Toledo A32a.