Search Results: Classics from Minotavros Books

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Teal paper boards. xvi, 256 pp. [16] pp. B&W illustrations. Fine. "A work of comprehensive scholarship and acute intelligence that every Roman historian should read." - Colin M. Wells, Trinity University, San Antonio (from rear cover).

New York: Philosophical Library, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full turquoise paper boards. 409 pp. Rubbing to extremities, bruising to spine head. Dust jacket is edge worn, rubbed to covers and joints.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. xiii, 347 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Lightly sunned to rear cover. A few small spots of staining to fore edge of text block. Pencil marginalia and underlining.

Cambridge, MA: Journal Of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1975. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Issued as Vol. 104, No. 2 of the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Soft cover. 202 pp. Damp stained to tail edge. Front cover is curling. Spine sunned.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 16mo. Loeb Classical Library No. 69. Orig. olive green cloth, xxiii, 423 pp., 8 pp. ads. Light chafing to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, a few spots of rubbing to joints and spine ends. Two romances: Daphnis and Chloe by Longus and Romances of Parthinius and other fragments.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Soft cover. Fine. 18mo. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Soft cover. x, 244 pp. Light creasing to spine, offset panel to rear cover, else fine. This commentary fulfills the need for a student edition of Horace's literary epistles, which have recently been the subject of renewed scholarly interest.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full burgundy paper boards. Map endpapers. x, 449 pp. Acknowledgements laid in. Fine. European poetry takes its bearings from a brilliant constellation of classical writers, whose lives (legend or fact) and work (as it survives) continue to inform our writing and reading.

New York: Free Press, 2004. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 290 pp. Fine. Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary text in its own right. Acclaimed by critics and scholars, Stephen Mitchell's version allows us to enter an ancient masterpiece as if for the first time, to see how startlingly beautiful, intelligent, and alive it is.

Chicago: The Great Books Foundation. Soft cover. Very Good. 5" x 8.75" Eight paperback volumes in publisher's slipcase. 1966-1968. Volume 1: Henrik Ibsen - The Wild Duck, Epictetus - The Manual, Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales - xxii, 124, 24, 82 pp. Volume 2: Dante Alighieri - The Inferno - xxii, 296 pp. Volume 3: Euripides - Medea; Hippolytus, Bergson - Time and Free Will - xxii, 90, 65 pp. Volume 4: Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang - Faust, William James - Psychology Briefer Course, Spinoza - On the Improvement of the Understanding - xxii, 145, 102, 45 pp. Volume 5: Plato - Symposium, Kierkegaard - Works of Love - xxii, 79, 137 pp. Volume 6: Boccaccio - The Decameron, Immanuel Kant - Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals - xxii, 109, 78 pp. Volume 7: The Book of Genesis, Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species - xxii, 120, 178 pp. Volume 8: Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons - xxii, 261 pp. 0.

New York: New York University Press, 1967. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Fourth printing. Soft cover. xii, 234 pp. Toning to covers. A few light creases to front cover. Combining the convenience of a dictionary with the depth of a history of philosophy, this new reference book fills a great need and should prove exceedingly useful to students and scholars in classics, philosophy, theology, and linguistics.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage Series XI. First paperback edition. Soft cover. xxi, 524. Some sunning to covers, else fine and clean to interior.

New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1926. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. stiffened cloth. 96 pp. B&W illustration in text. Covers slightly bowed, rubbing to extremities.

Ottawa: Doverhouse Editions Inc, 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo (medium). Orig. blue cloth with gilt illustration on front cover, 336pp. Book label of the Centre for Reformation and Rennaisance Studies on ff/ endpaper. Light rubbing on edges, extremities o/w near fine. With an introduction and criticism on the life and works of English author and soldier Barnabe Riche.

Amtelaedami: Henricus Wetstein. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo. (1676-1727?) Vellum, lettered spine and red edges. With separate title pages and pagination: 271 pp., [16] (A-S8), 192 pp., [8] (A-M8, N4), [6] 328 pp (3*, [1] A-V8. X4). Illustrated with title engravings. The title page of the third book lists the printer as Elzevir. However, in 1681, printer Henricus Wetstein purchased part of the Elzevir catalogue from Daniel Elzevir. Wetstein was known to have printed some of these books under the Elzevir name (Digital Library for Dutch Literature). Some staining to vellum, cracking to inner hinge at title page. Light foxing, with some trimming to top edges (text not affected), early name on first title page, some underlining and notes, o/w very good. Quintus Curtius Rufus was a 1st century Roman historian. His Historarium on Alexander the Great, was a popular text during the middle ages. Sallust, or Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86-35 C) was a Roman Historian and politician. His work discsses the… Read More

Oxford: Oxford at the Claredon Press, 1997. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Special edition for Sandpiper Books Ltd. xii, 494 p.p. Black cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Dust jacket has some light bumping to spine ends and edges of flaps, else fine. The first of Raby's two great works on medieval poetry, this study was intended for historians of medieval culture as well as students of literature. It uses a wealth of quotation (in Latin) to trace the process of formal development of Christian-Latin poetry and to offer an appreciation of its poetic achievement. Raby describes the origins of the early church, the decline of Greek influence, and the adoption of Latin as the language of Western Christianity before looking at the progress of Latin poetry and the works of individual poets.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Paperback. x, 178 pp. Creasing to spine, rubbing to extremities.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. First paperback edition. Soft cover. xvi, 363 pp. Fading to spine, bumping to corners, else fine.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. First paperback edition. Soft cover. xvi, 363 pp. Fading to spine, bumping to corners, else fine.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Orange paper boards. x, 285 pp. Fine.

San Diego: Canterbury Classics, 2011. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Full mustard yellow leatherette, vignette to front board. Pictorial endpapers. xiv, 639 pp. Red ribbon marker. Fine.