Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta
Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1983. Reprint. Hardcover. Large octavo. 6 x 9 in. xxvi, 1022, 44 pp. (supplement from Snell). Reprint of the Leipzig 1899 Second Edition. More
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Specimens of the Greek and Roman Classic Poets in a Chronological Series from Homer to Tryphiodorus; Translated into English Verse, and Illustrated with Biographical and Critical Notices
Philadelphia: F. Bell, 1854. First American Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes in octavo. 5.375 x 8.25 in. 448; 411; 399 pp. Engraved frontispiece portraits of Homer, Horace, and Pindar, with tissue guards. Includes translated verse from Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Sappho, Statius, Juvenal, Vergil, Lucan, Claudian, et al., as well as the..... More
Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. xviii, 524 pp. More
Queen Maeve and Her Lovers: A Celtic Archetype of Ecstasy, Addiction, and Healing
New York: Carrowmore, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.5 in. 491 pp. Occasionally illustrated in black & white. "If I could rediscover the pattern of Maeve's wholeness, I wondered, would I be better able to understand what we need for healing our addictive behaviors. 'Queen Maeve and Her..... More
Dracula (Collector's Edition)
Norwalk,CT: Easton Press, 1995. First Thus. Hardcover. Quarto. 7.25 x 10.25 in. xi, 410 pp. Occasionally illustrated with lovely color and black & white reproductions of artworks by Felix Hoffman. From Easton Press' Gothic Horror Collection. More
Frankenstein (Collector's Edition)
Norwalk,CT: Easton Press, 1995. First Thus. Hardcover. Quarto. 7.25 x 10.25 in. xv, 257 pp. Occasionally illustrated with color reproductions of artworks by Everett Henry. From Easton Press' Gothic Horror Collection. More
Phantom of the Opera (Collector's Edition)
Norwalk,CT: Easton Press, 1990. First Thus. Hardcover. Quarto. 7.25 x 10.25 in. 360 pp. Illustrated with a color frontispiece reproduction by Rick Daskam. From Easton Press' Gothic Horror Collection. More
Painted Histories: Early Maori Figurative Painting
Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 7.5 x 11.75 in. xii, 330 pp. Illustrated with 175 black & white reproductions of artworks and photographs, finely detailed. Neich archives in theory and practise the figurative paintings of more than eighty meeting houses across New Zealand (especially..... More
A Catalogue of Pre-Revival Appalachian Dulcimers
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 8.5 x 12 in. xvi, 128 pp. Profusely Illustrated with black & white reproductions of photographs. More
Smoke Showin': A Pictorial Report on Firefighting
Boston, MA: Addison C. Getchell & Sons, 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Quarto. 9 x 12 in. ix, 190 pp. Profusely illustrated with black & white and color reproductions of photographs by the author, captions by Leo D. Stapleton. Signed by Noonan on the title page. Noonan became a member of..... More
Lexicon in Diodorum Siculum
Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Octavo. Pars I: A-K, Pars II: L-O(mega). Text in Greek and English. Previous owership inscription to front free endpaper, possibly by the author. More
Peter Knows What Dick Likes
London: Paladin / Grafton Books, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo. 5.25 x 7.75 in. 597 pp. Paladin Paperback Original. Cover photograph by Chris George. More
Official Detroit Street Guide: 1932 Edition
Detroit, MI: United News Co., 1932. First Edition. Paperback. Duodecimo. 4 x 6.75 in. 250 pp. Illustrated with a color fold-out map at rear. Index includes City Police, Depots and Docks, Factories, Hospitals, Office Buildings, Public Buildings, Public Libraries, Public Schools, Routes of Rail and Coach Lines, Street Guides and..... More
Vico Magistretti: Designer
Berlin: Ernst & Sohn, 1991. First Edition. Paperback. Quarto. 9 x 11.5 in. 126 pp. Fully illustrated with black & white and color reproductions of photographs and artworks. More
Aristotle's Syllogistic: From the Standpoint of Modern Formal Logic
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954. 1954 Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 9 in. x, 141 pp. More
Burma Road
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. 333 pp. Fully illustrated with black & white reproductions of photographs by the author. More
My Noah's Ark
New York: Harper and Row, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Square octavo. 7.25 x 7.25 in. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with black & white reproductions of artworks by Goffstein. More
The History of Polybius the Megalopolitan; The five first Bookes entire: With all the parcels of the subsequent Bookes unto the eighteenth, according to the Greeke Originall. Also the manner of the Romane encamping, extracted from the discription of Polybius
London: Printed by N. Okes for Cornelius Bee, 1634. First Thus. Hardcover. Folio. 8.25 x 12 in. [16], 480, [14] pp. Second English translation of the Greek historian Polybius' Historiae ("Histories") of Rome. Folding xylographic plate, "The Plot of the Romanes Campe" map facing p. 246. Cornelius Bee imprint, one..... More
The Aeneid of Virgil
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. First Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.625 in. 401 pp. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Guy Davenport. National Book Award for Translation winner. More
In Carum Lucretium poetam Commentarii a Ioanne Baptista Pio editi; codice Lucretiano diligeter emendato: nodis omnibus & difficultatibus apertis: obiter ex diversis auctoribus tum graecis: tum latinis multa leges enucleata
[Paris]: Johanne Parvus [Jean Petit] and Ascensius [Josse Bade], [1514]. Second Edition. Hardcover. Folio. 8.5 x 12.75 in. [x], 184 leaves. First Paris Edition, Lucretius with Pius's commentary having been published first in Bologna in 1511, produced by two of the greatest Renaissance printers & publishers in Paris, Jehan or..... More
The Love of Hunting
Dallas, TX: Tejas Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.25 in. [8], 272 +[4] pp. Occasionally illustrated with black & white reproductions of photographs. Inscribed on the half-title page by Jeffett, "Feb.17,1975/To Major Carlos U. Lowrance,/a fine sportsman and/lucky hunter!/Best Wishes,/Frank Jeffert." More
Christ the Eternal Tao
Platina, CA: Valaam Books, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo. 6 x 9 in. 554 pp. Occasionally illustrated in black & white. More
Science Fiction Puzzle Tales; Foreword by Isaac Asimov
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, (1981). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Short quarto. 7.25 x 9.25 in. xii, 148 pp. With black & white reproductions of drawings and diagrams. Signed by Martin Gardner on the title page and scarce thus. More
On the Shoulders of Giants; A Shandean Postscript
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1985). Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. xx, 200 pp. This first printing of the Vicennial edition has an afterword by Denis Donoghue and a preface by the author. Nicely inscribed on the front free endpaper to art historian James Thompson by Robert..... More