CLASSICS from Gilt Edge Books

Clad in Achilles' own armour, which he had captured in battle, Hector waits outside the walls of Troy to meet the Greek hero in single combat. It will be a battle to the death, for Achilles comes to avenge the killing of his life-long friend, Patroklos and it will be a turning point to the long… Read more about this item

The Millennium Edition 1991. Everyman's Library. Published by David Campbell Publishers, London. Printed from the Shakespeare Head Edition 1931. Distributed by Random House (UK) Ltd. Vintage Hardcover. Book and Dust Jacket AS NEW. Wuthering Heights with an introduction by Katherine Frank. Introduction, Bibliography and Chronology provided. The Everyman's Library Millennium edition book is very attractively bound in burgundy cloth with… Read more about this item

London: Cambridge at The University Press, 1962. Revised by W.K. Lacey. Contents provide: Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Introduction - (I) Cicero's Life, (II) Cicero's Works, (III) Cicero's Correspondence. Text, Notes, Appendix and Vocabulary. A small booklet of 127 pp plus 1. Bookplate and name to ffep. A sound bright book.. Second Edition. Hard Cover.… Read more about this item

London: MacMillan and Co; Limited, 1930. Soldiers Three - A collection of stories setting forth certain passages in the lives and adventures of Privates Terence Mulvaney, Stanley Ortheris and John Learoyd. A beautifully bright book! Top edge gilt bright as well as decoration to front board (elephant). 1930 to title page. Title page bordered in red. Dust jacket titled Soldiers… Read more about this item

New York: Books Inc Publishers. N.D. The World's Popular Classics Edition. Preface by Rudyard Kipling. The contents provide seven stories (ghost stories, or rather a collection of facts that never quite explain themselves). The Phantom Rickshaw - The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes - The Recrudescence of Imray - My Own Ghost Story - At The End of The… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1947. Slipcase Very Good. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated into English quatrains by Edward Fitzgerald. A complete reprint of the First Edition and the combined Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions, with an Appendix containing Fitzgerald's Prefaces and Notes. Edited with an Introduction by Louis Untermeyer. Beautifully illustrated in color throughout by the most talented work… Read more about this item

New York: The MacMillan Company 1916. Third Printing of the 1914 Revised Edition.. Frontispiece illustration: Pompey The Great. A three-act play. Act I...The determination of Pompeus to fight with his rival, then marching to Rome. Act II.... The triumph of Pompey's generalship at Dyrrachium. His overthrow by the generals of his staff. His defeat at Pharsalia. Act III... the… Read more about this item

London: Chancellor Press 1985 Reprint. . Introduction by S.C. Roberts. This selection contains eleven of the most famous cases solved by Sherlock Holmes, that most clever of detectives. The stories: Silver Blaze.... The Speckled Band.... The Sign of Four.... A Scandal In Bohemia.... The Naval Treaty, etc, etc. Patterned boards. Illustrated dust jacket by Kate Jaspers. Bottom of spine… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1988. In a feat of investigative journalism and classical scholarship, a veteran Washington correspondent has gone back almost twenty-five hundred years to throw fresh light on the most famous free speech case of all time - the trial of Socrates. The book shows how profound were the differences between democratic Athens and the philosopher… Read more about this item

New York: The Modern Library 1964 Last copyright showing. Definitive Edition translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. Revised and with additional materials translated by E.M. Butler. This book offers ten chapters, two Appendices: (1) The Unfinished chapters.... (2) The passages deleted by the authors. This is followed with "Postscript by Max Brod".... To the First… Read more about this item

Mount Vernon, New York: The Peter Pauper Press No date. Reprinted from the Deluxe Artists' Editions of the Peter Pauper Press. BOMC Edition. 228 pp plus a glossary of Archaic words and phrases. Design chapter headings and tailpieces. Patterned hardboard covers. Gilt title print to beige cloth spine. Bookplate to fep - name to ffep. Boards show damp-stain has… Read more about this item

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company Publishers No Date.... 'The Greek-Lamp Library Series'. Sporatic pale foxing to rear endpapers and top edge of book. Bright, attractively designed boards.... red title print, decoration and boardering on dark blue cloth boards. A most serviceable, respectable copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

London: Chancellor Press, 1985. 1985 Oxford World's Classics Edition. His flamboyant style, the brilliance of his conversation and the polish of his wit made Oscar Wilde one of the most famous men of his day. He is still loved for his sparkling comedies and magical short stories, the best of which, including 'The Importance of Being Earnest', 'The Happy… Read more about this item

Connecticut: Grolier Enterprises Corp. . The World's Great Classics edition. 364pp. Attractively bound in brown simulated leather with decoration to front board in gilt. Rust-red title block, gilt print and horizontal gilt bars to spine. All edges gilt. Previous owner sticker affixed to ffep. A very desireable copy.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Boston,: Estes and Lauriat, 1883. Thackeray's Complete Works, The People's Edition. This book contains two seperate volumes in one, each with 15 illustrations. The first volume - 402pp, the second volume 401pp. Brown cloth boards beautifully designed. Print on front board and spine in gilt. Tissue guard protecting frontispiece. Moderate edgewear.Name to half title page. A section loose but… Read more about this item

New York: The Modern Library (Random House). (1911) Book Very Good in a Poor Dust Jacket. This chronicle of the five towns and France during the seige of Paris is a literary undertaking of heroic proportions. This is a classic among twentieth-century novels. Green boards with black title blocks to front and spine. Name… Read more about this item

New York: P.F. Collier& Son Corporation (c1937) . With introductions and notes. The Harvard Classics Deluxe Edition. Registered Edition. Dark green simulated leather boards. Gilt embossed decoration to front board and spine. Gilt print to spine. No ownership markings. A beautiful copy.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

London: MacMillan and Co; Limited 1926 (1926 Reprint) The Globe Edition. Offsetting to fep and rep. Gentle crease to title page. Green cloth boards remain bright....the gilt title print bright as well. A most serviceable copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Dodd,Mead & Company, 1925. The life of Byron in the form of a novel. Biography is touched with imagination and the essential truth presented. The author had consulted the best sources of information. Letters, though often condensed are all authentic. Tissue-guard frontispiece is a portrait of Lord Byron. Attractively bound in silky blue cloth. Blind-stamped decoration to… Read more about this item

Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1958. This book unlocks with sensitive and discerning keys the world and thought of Dante Alighieri, second only to Homer among poets of the Western World, first among Christian poets. It is the distillation of over thirty years of imaginative teaching and creative scholarship. Here is a gracious classroom without walls for readers diverse in… Read more about this item