New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1999. A consciously-done "acting version" translation done by the poet in the last year of his life. This is a Fine copy of the First American Edition (stated). Light gray paper-covered boards with a black cloth spine. 197 pages; fresh and clean text. The dustjacket is Fine, unclipped; in an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
New Jersey: Princeton University, 1991. Par of the "Lockeret Library of Poetry in Translation." This is a Fine copy of the First Edition. White cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. 60 pages (with notes); clean and fresh. The dustjacket is also Fine; in an archival plastic protector. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1959. One of the best translations of this Roman satire, assumed to bethe work of Petronius Arbiter, Consul to the Emperor Nero. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition. Bright orange cloth binding, decorated in a darker orange, with lettering in black. Clean text; 218 pages, with Notes. Old inked price on the FFEP, else Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped; light edgewear with a few small chips, light fading on the spine. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good Plus. Dust jacket ... View More...
Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1927. This famous work of classical history was written by the Secretary to the General Belisarius, and gave us an insider's view of Justinian and Theodora. The translator, Richard Atwater (1892-1948). won a Newberry Award in 1939 for a children's book he wrote with his wife. This is a Very Good (Plus) to Near Fine copy of the First Edition, in a Fine Binding. Blue cloth with fancy decoration in gilt. Clean text; 286 pages; gilt top edge. This edition is LIMITED to 760 copies and has been SIGNED by Atwater and Douglas C. McMurtrie, whose distinctive typeface design is u... View More...
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873. Best known for his early poem "Thanatopsis, " Bryant (1794-1870) was a prominent "Public Intellectual" throughout his lifetime. Translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey occupied him in the last years of his life. Originally published in 1871. These are Very Good (Plus) copies of a Later Printing, from two years later. Maroon cloth bindings with gilt lettering on the spine and titled on the front covers. Chamfered edges and gilt on the top edges. Clean texts; 272 pages and 256 pages. Light wear and minor discolorations; there is a previous-owner signature inked on... View More...
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1870. English classical scholar Theodore Buckley (1825-1856) edited this edition of Alexander Pope's famous verse translation; later he would do his own translation in prose. There is no indication of either edition or publication date, but the book is consistent with first editions by Crowell and has the look of the last half of the Nineteenth Century; Quercus therefore arbitrarily assigns it to a "First Thus" category from 1870. An attractive volume: maroon cloth binding with gilt bands and lettering on the spine, where it is named a "Standard Library Editio... View More...
New York: Privately Printed, 1928. First published in 1894 (Penzer, 156); this is a Near Fine copy of a new edition LIMITED to 750 copies, "privately printed for Subscribers only." Brown paper-covered boards with a white spine; black spine label with gilt titling. Clean text; xxiii, 313 pages (many unopened). Text in both Latin and English; with eight full-page illustrations. Introduction and Notes by Leonard C. Smithers (1861-1907), who published many of the "decadent" writers of the Edwardian times. Some very light rubbing to one edge of the spine; else a Fine copy. In an archival plastic pr... View More...
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1918. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition [stated "Published December, 1918"]. Brick red cloth binding with a titled cover decorated with a Greek ship in black. Titling on the spine in gilt. Clean text; 254 pages. With marvelous illustrations by Willy Pogany throughout. Lacking a dustjacket.. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Willy Pogany. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. View More...
London: J. and R. Tonson, 1763. Tonson published the first edition of Dryden's translation in 1697; this is a Very Good (minus) copy of a Later Printing - the Second Volume, containing the "Aeneid." Full leather binding with five raised bands, gilt decorations and titling on the spine. Clean text; marbled endpapers, 370 pages (with a Dedication using 105 of those). Distinguished by 42 spectacular illustrations. Rubbed at the margins, covers cracked at the spine; the spine rubbing rather extensive. Pages 171-190 are present but have come loose. Please note the condition issues; Quercus must off... View More...
New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1999. Last of the late-career translations made by the English poet, published posthumously. This is a Fine copy of the First American Edition. Gray paper boards (blindstamped); black paper spine with white lettering. 103 pages; clean and bright. The dustjacket is also unclipped anf Fine; in a plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
New York & London: Oxford University Press, 1973. Part of the series "The New Greek Tragedy in Modern Translation," under the general editorship of William Arrowsmith. This is a Fine copy. Black cloth binding with gilt lettering. 105 pages, clean, fresh, and bright. Includes Notes, a Glossary, and a short Bibliography. The dustjacket is clipped, else Fine. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
New York & London: Oxford University Press, 1973. Part of the series "The New Greek Tragedy in Modern Translation," under the general editorship of William Arrowsmith. This is a Fine copy of the First Edition. Black cloth binding with gilt lettering. 88 pages, including Glossary and Notes. Clean and fresh. The dustjacket is clipped, else Fine. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. From the "New Greek Tragedy in New Translation" series under the editorship of William Arrowsmith. This is a Fine copy of the First Edition. Black cloth binding with gilt lettering. 85 pages, with index and notes. Clean and bright text. The dustwrapper is clipped and with some very minor wear on the edges. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
New York: Crown, 1962. A scholarly study of what can only be described as one of the more interesting sides of Greek history. Originally published in France in 1960; translation by James Cleugh. This is a Near Fine copy of the First American Edition. Orange cloth binding with black lettering on spine. Clean text; 224 pages, illustrated. Previous-owner signature on TP, else Fine.The dustjacket is complete and unclipped; shows edgewear, with minor chips and creases. In a plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Dust jacket pres... View More...
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1890. Oxford historian J.A. Froude (1818-1894) was recognized as one of the finer prose stylists of his day and was a popular lecturer. His political sympathies were identified with empire. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition. Marble paper-covered boards with green leather tips and spine. Five raised bands, with gilt titling and decorations on the spine. The binding by Riviere and Son (stamp endpaper). Clean text; xvi, 568 pages. Indexed. All page-ends marbled. A sound copy that is rubbed at the margins. Nonetheless, it presents well.. Later Printing.... View More...
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1852. This is a lovely, six volume Mid-Victorian "New Edition" set of Gibbon's great work, originally published in installments from 1776-1788. Notes are by Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868), a famed historian and liberal clergyman of the time. A scarce edition, particularly when in such nice condition. Added to this printing is a complete index; for a work of this magnitude, this alone is sufficient blessing to the reader. Dark brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Blindstamped floral design on the covers. Clean text. 590 pages, with 2 pages... View More...
New York: Bigelow, Brown & Co., Inc., 1890. This is an extremely attractive set (six volumes) of Gibbon's masterful history, in Near Fine condition. Olive green cloth binding, with spine lettering in gilt over black. Top edges are gilt, others deckle. Includes Notes by Milman, Guizot, and Wenck. Edited by Dr. William Smith. Identified on the spine as the "National Library Edition." Clean text; 706 pages; 715 pages; 714 pages; 715 pages; 701 pages; and 822 pages, with the Index. Very light wear, light fading on the spines. Gibbon's life work should be yours as well; however, if daunted by the p... View More...
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960. Perhaps the best way to appreciate Gibbon is through Low's famous one-volume abridgement, which is massive enough. This is a Near Fine copy of the Book Club edition, which is bound in the same way as the First. Red cloth binding blindstamped "EG" on the front cover, with gilt titling on the spine. Clean text; xviii, 924 pages. Maps as endpapers. Hints of a rub to the tips; else a Fine copy. The dustjacket shows some edgewear, mainly wrinkling, with a small closed tear to the foot of the front panel. In an archival plastic protector.. Book Club (BCE/... View More...
New York: James B. Millar & Co., 1884. Gibbon's masterwork of classical history has remained unequaled in scope for almost 250 years. Here is a lovely small set of five volumes as edited by the great 19th-century scholar Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868) and first published in 1845 . (Reprinted many times by various publishers in both England and America.) Five small volumes, generally in Very Good Plus to Near Fine condition. Maroon publisher's cloth binding (typically faded to a tan on the spines) with gilt lettering on the spine. Volume One (626 pages) contains no less than four Prefaces: Prefa... View More...
Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1824. The Anglo-Irish novelist and playwright Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) passed on in the same year this history first came out. Quercus believes this to be the First American Edition, which is uncommon. This is a Very Good copy, in rather delicate condition, but holding well. Full calf leather binding; seven rules and a red label on the spine, all gilt. Much better condition than usually seen; minor bumping, and with a small gouge on the front cover. The text is clean; 316 pages; paper is tanning and rather thin, hence the concern. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. F... View More...
