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Perseus and the Gorgon


Hulst, Cornelia Steketee

Hardcover. La Salle, IL, Open Court Publishing, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Heavy gilt on front cover and lettering on spine. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to edges.

Record # 2233327


Price: $15.00 

 

Philistines, The : Their History and Civilization


Macalister, R. A. S.

Hardcover. Chicago, Argonaut, Inc., 1st Am, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 136 pages, b&w illustrations. Light foxing to top edge. Dust jacket slightly soiled w/ light edgewear. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851555


Price: $18.00 

Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, The: Volume 2 - Mythical ThoughtCassirer, Ernst

Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, The: Volume 2 - Mythical Thought


Cassirer, Ernst

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press , reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 269 pages, paperback. Clean.

Record # 407714


Price: $50.00 

 

Pindar's Victory Songs


Nisetich, Frank J.

Softcover. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st Edition, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages. Softcover with bright covers, black & white printed titles & decoration to cover & spine. Title page b/w illustration, Inside of red-figured cup showing a running figure in bronze, Musee de Louvre, Paris. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750378


Price: $15.00 

Plays of Menander, TheCasson (Ed.), Lionel

Plays of Menander, The


Casson (Ed.), Lionel

Hardcover. New York , New York University Press , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 154 pages in a dust jacket with light wear, clean.

Record # 406269


Price: $15.00 

 

Porcelain


Patterson, Jerry E.

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages, b & w and color photos, part of The Smithsonian Illustrated Library of Antiques, prepared by the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 800834


Price: $6.00 

 

Pre-Columbian Art from The Ernest Erickson Collection at the American Museum of Natural History - June 15-August 15, 1988


Couch, N. C. Christopher

Softcover. New York, American Museum of Natural History, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 612398


Price: $13.00 

 

Prehistoric England


Cavendish, Richard

Hardcover. London, English Tourist Board, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 152 pages. Dj price clipped

Record # 60411


Price: $18.00 

 

Prehistory of New Zealand, The


Davidson, Janet

Hardcover. Auckland, New Zealand, Longman Paul Limited, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Pink endpapers. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Previous owner's name and a small note on front flyleaf. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, slightly faded spine (see image), excellent. Presents an authoritative review of what is known about life in New Zealand before the coming of the European.

Record # 32194


Price: $63.00 

 

Quatre Pieces / Five Ancient Odes / Two Lieder


Brahms / Busch / Strauss

CD. 1995-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Case with minor wear and scuffing. Disc and booklet in excellent condition.

Record # 490277


Price: $31.00 

Ramesses the GreatFreed, Rita E.

Ramesses the Great


Freed, Rita E.

Softcover. Boston, Boston Museum of Science, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 215 pages illustrated in color, illustrated wrappers.

Record # 406287


Price: $13.00 

 

Reading Ancient Greek, part II: Appendices, Vocabulary


Ellsworth, J.D.

Lawrence, KS, Coronado Press, Inc., 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. 173 pages. Soiling to covers. Light edgewear.

Record # 506507


Price: $33.00 

 

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (2 vols in 1)


Percy, Thomas

hardcover. NY, T.Y. Crowell, Rep., n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Edited by J. V. Prichard. 257., 236 pages. 3/4 leather. Front fly leaf loose, spine worn, internally VG.

Record # 64386


Price: $23.00 

 

Remarkable Remains of the Ancient Peoples of Guatemala


VanKirk, Jacques and Parney Bassett-VanKirk

Norman, OK, University Press of Oklahoma, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages. Color and black & white photography. Clean, tight copy with light shelf-wear to dust jacket.

Record # 205858


Price: $6.00 

 

Riddle Of The Pyramids, The


Mendelssohn, Kurt

NY, Praeger, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos and illustrations. Dust jacket with edgewear, soil and rubbing.

Record # 203492


Price: $15.00 

 

Rienzo - The Rise and Fall of a Dictator


Fleischer, Victor

Hardcover. London, Aiglon Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dj worn, chipped

Record # 53651


Price: $18.00 

 

Roman Empire and the Dark Ages (History of EveryDay Things Series), The


Caselli, Giovanni

Hardcover. US, MacDonald and Co., 1st, 1981-10-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Includes chronology and list of further reading. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 466665


Price: $15.00 

 

Roman Foreign Policy in the East, 168 B.C. to A.D. 1


Sherwin-White, A. N.

Softcover. Oklahoma, Univ of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1984, 352 pages. Softcover with only minor edgewear. Red wrapper with black lettering on spine. Small corner fold on bottom right of front wrapper. Former library sticker on back wrapper. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 470843


Price: $25.00 

 

Roman Forts of the Saxon Shore, The


Johnson, Stephen

NY, St. Martins, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated with b&w illustrations, photos, diagrams. 172 pages.

Record # 600971


Price: $20.00 

 

Roman Sacrificial Altars: An Archaeological Study of Monuments in Rome


Bowerman, Helen Cox

Softcover. Lancaster PA, privately printed, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages with 11 plates in b&w. Light blue paper wrappers, clean, a dissertation presented to the faculty of Bryn Mawr College.

Record # 406267


Price: $44.00 

 

Roman Shadows: A Novel


Burns, Ron

Hardcover. US, St Martins Press, 1st, 1992-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 261 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 466370


Price: $15.00 

Roman Stoicism: Being Lectures on the History of the Stoic Philosophy with Special Reference to Its Development within the Roman Empire Arnold, E. Vernon

Roman Stoicism: Being Lectures on the History of the Stoic Philosophy with Special Reference to Its Development within the Roman Empire


Arnold, E. Vernon

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, reprint, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 468 pages. First published in 1911, this is the 2nd edition. Cloth covers with light spotting, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 412099


Price: $156.00 

 

Roman Theatre and Its Audience, The


Beacham, Richard C.

Paperback. Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ., Rep. wraps, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 267 pages. Paperback.

Record # 66671


Price: $15.00 

 

Royal City of Susa, The - Ancient Near-Eastern Treasures in the Louvre


Harper (Ed.), Prudence

NY, MMOA, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 76 color, many black & white photos. 280 pages.

Record # 69729


Price: $40.00 

 

Sacred Landscapes - The Threshold Between Worlds


Davis, Lynn

Hardcover. New York, Sterling Publishing Corporation, First Edition, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover. Peat cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Dime sized bump to front board corner, small blemish to gutter of front flyleaf. Otherwise very clean & unmarked. Stunning full page photography in black & white, beautifully presented to accompany text. Dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. A very nice copy.

Record # 751102


Price: $63.00 

 

Scandinavian Races, The: The Northmen, the Sea-Kings andVikings


Sinding, Paul C.

Hardcover. New York , privately printed, 2nd, 1877, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 493 pages, b&w frontispiece with tissue guard. Brown cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine.

Record # 900129


Price: $32.00 

 

Seafarers, The (18 vols.)


Time-Life

New York, Time-Life, 1st, 1970s-l980s, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 18 of the 22 volume set. (Missing: Northwest Passage, Great Liners, Ancient Mariners, Pirates). Color, B&W illustrations, approximately 170 pages per book. Excellent condition.

Record # 304785


Price: $188.00 

 

Seattle Art Museum Treasures: Four Decades of Collecting


N/A

Softcover. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, 1st, 1973, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial, stapled wrappers. Exhibition commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum. 28 pp., b/w illustrations. Documents five basic categories: Asiatic; Ancient Near East and Classic; Western Art; 20th Century & Northwest Art; and Tribal Arts. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 805908


Price: $8.00 

 

Secret of the Hittites, The


Ceram, C. W.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, The discovery of an ancient civilization. Dj spine badly faded. Black & white photos, illust.

Record # 54783


Price: $18.00 

Selections from HerodotusBarbour, Amy L. (ed.)

Selections from Herodotus


Barbour, Amy L. (ed.)

Hardcover. Boston, MA, University of Oklahoma Press, Reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 388 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Slight fading to spine and small point of water damage to lower covers, light wear to cover edges. Very tight copy with small pencil notations between pages 49 and 58.

Record # 2230961


Price: $23.00 

 

Seneque: Questions Naturelles (Volume 1, Books 1-3)


Oltramare (edited and translated by), Paul

Softcover. Paris, Societe d'Edition "Les Belles Lettres", 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages. Translated into French. Previous owner's signature on front cover and title page. Light sun-fade and soiling to spine. Minor creasing on rear cover. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 856394


Price: $38.00 

Seven Daughters of Eve, The: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic AncestrySykes, Bryan

Seven Daughters of Eve, The: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry


Sykes, Bryan

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st , 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 306 pages. Illustrated end papers and fly leafs. Gilt titles on spine. Shelf wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468013


Price: $10.00 

 

Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World: The Great Monuments and How They Were Built


Scarre, Chris

Hardcover. US, Thames & Hudson, rep, 1999-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461148


Price: $19.00 

 

Sexual Life in Ancient Rome


Kiefer, Otto

New York , Barnes & Noble, 7th printing, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 379 pages, 16 B&W plates. Ex-lib with stamping to edges, pages. Rear hinge partially cracked.

Record # 305313


Price: $20.00 

 

Ship and Boat Models in Ancient Greece


Johnston, Paul Forsythe

Hardcover. Annapolis, Naval Institute Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 187 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and reproductions. Previous owners embossed stamp on front endpaper. Dust jacket spine sunfaded. Clean tight copy.

Record # 603880


Price: $16.00 

 

Silk Road, The: La Ruta de la Seda


Meniconzi, Alessandra (Photography), Bertram Job (Text)

Hardcover. Berlin, Germany, Feierabend, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. Vibrant color illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean. In beautiful condition. Looks barely read and nearly new. Photo essays of the ancient trade routes from the Mediterranean to China.

Record # 31899


Price: $50.00 

 

Social Aspects of Greek Life in the Sixth Century B.C.


Brandt, Lida Roberts

Softcover. Philadelphia , T.C. Davis and Co., 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 108 pages, light blue paper wraps with light edgewear. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover.

Record # 405969


Price: $38.00 

 

Social History of Ancient Ireland, A (Two Volume Set)


Joyce, P. W.

Hardcover. Dublin, M. H. Gill & Son, Ltd, Second Edition, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover two volume set. Green cloth boards with embossed celtic decoration & gilt printed titles to cover & spine. Vol. 1 - Light foxing to preliminary page & endpages. Black & white illustrations & light toning throughout. Small tears to spine edge, small scuff mark to corners. Otherwise clean, unmarked. Vol. 2 - Small tear to top spine edge. Moderate foxing to preliminary pages & endpaper. Elsewhere, light toning. Decorative illustrations in bw. Clean, crisp copy. A very nice set.

Record # 750833


Price: $125.00 

 

St. John's Lodge - Ancient Free & Accepted Masons - Boston, Massachusetts - Bound Notices for the Years 1926 and 1927


St. John's Lodge A. F. & A. M., Boston, Massachusetts

Hardcover. Boston MA, Privately Bound, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Leather bound collection of lodge notices from St. John's Lodge of Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, Boston, Massachusetts 1926-1927. SIGNED LETTER TO DAVID M. CLAGHORN (EXITING MASTER) FROM LODGE SECRETARY WALTER F. W. TABER AS DEDICATION PAGE - DATED CHRISTMAS 1927. October 1926 notice is missing 2 pages, with closed tears to November 5, 1926 - "Special Communication". Gilt decoration on spine and cover edges.

Record # 70592


Price: $200.00 

Stoic StudiesLong, A.A.

Stoic Studies


Long, A.A.

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, Reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 309 pages. Softcover. Minor agewear to covers. Marking and annotations only on pages 136-138. Otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230993


Price: $25.00 

 

Stories In Stone from the Roman Forum


Lovell, Isabel

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1902, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 258 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Black & white illustrations. Red covers with gold lettering and decoration. Gilt top edge. Related newspaper clippings laid in. Front hinge cracking. Darkened spine. Corners bumped. Light soiling to covers.

Record # 508519


Price: $75.00 

 

Story of Architecture in Mexico, The: Including the Work of the Ancient Indian Civilizations and that of the Spanish Colonial Empire


Sanford, Trent Elwood

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 363 pages, 105 b&w illustrations. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped.

Record # 405455


Price: $25.00 

 

Suzhou - Shaping an Ancient City For the New China


Kaplan Prentice, Helaine

Paperback. Washington DC, Spacemaker Press, 1st wraps, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Paperback. Color photographs and sketches.

Record # 204117


Price: $30.00 

 

Suzhou: Shaping an Ancient City for the New China


Prentice, Helaine Kaplan

Cambridge MA, Spacemaker Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Afterword by I.M. Pei. An Edaw/Pei Workshop. Color photographs. Rubbing on covers.

Record # 603507


Price: $30.00 

 

Tale of Athens, The


Bosanquet, Ellen S.

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 201 pages, b&w illustrations, maps on endpapers, previous owner's inscription, clean, tight copy.

Record # 801106


Price: $10.00 

Tales of LoveKristeva, J

Tales of Love


Kristeva, J

Softcover. United States, Columbia University Press, rep, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 414 pages. Faint pencil markings to a handful pages. Light shelf-wear to wrappers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460550


Price: $19.00 

 

Tarquinia and Entruscan Origins


Hencken, Hugh

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages, hardcover. Volume 62 in the series Ancient Peoples and Places. Red toning to top text block. Mild edgewear to boards. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light fading to prelim pages. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951931


Price: $15.00 

 

Technique & Personality


Mead, Margaret, Junius B. Bird and Hans Himmelheber

Hardcover. New York , Museum of Primitive Art, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 80 pages, 36 b&w plates, 2 color. Three lectures given at The Museum of Primitive Art.

Record # 406855


Price: $15.00 

Temples of ancient EgyptN/A

Temples of ancient Egypt


N/A

Hardcover . Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 335 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Some foxing to edges, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469353


Price: $10.00 

 

Textiles of Ancient Peru and their Techniques


D'Harcourt, Raoul/Grace G. Denny/Carolyn M. Osborne

Softcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, Reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 186 pages of text followed by 117 black & white plates. Slight fade to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611786


Price: $25.00 

 

Textiles of Ancient Peru and their Techniques


D'Harcourt, Raoul

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press , 1st US, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 186 pages of text + 117 pages of b&w plates. Severe rubbing and wear to dust jacket with several tears along edges and tape-repair to spine. previous owner's stamp on front end paper. Reading copy only.

Record # 856755


Price: $31.00 

 

Thalassocracies, The


Miller, Molly

Hardcover. New York, State University of New York Press, 1st, 1971, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 185 pages with bibliography and list of ancient sources. Very good in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket.

Record # 512316


Price: $10.00 

The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan AgeLevine, Joseph M.

The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age


Levine, Joseph M.

Softcover. US, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 428 pages. Softcover. Light normal age wear to covers.

Record # 2231079


Price: $23.00 

The Cambridge Companion to the StoicsInwood, Brad (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics


Inwood, Brad (ed.)

Softcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 438 pages. Softcover. Normal light age wear to covers. Crease along length of spine. Name of former owner in pen in front end papers. Very light pencil marking, but otherwise tight copy.

Record # 2231053


Price: $23.00 

The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in EnglishVermes, Geza

The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English


Vermes, Geza

Hardcover. New York, NY, Allen Lane/Penguin Press, Reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 648 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows light wear, fading on spine. Name of former owner in pen in front end paper, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2231084


Price: $31.00 

 

The Cultures of Mankind (4 vols)


Von Hildebrand (ed), Alice, Gary Wills, Ruth Brantl, Jilian Mates and Eugene Cantelupe

New York, Braziller, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Titles include: Greek Culture - The Adventure of the Human Spirit, Roman Culture - Weapons and the Man, Medieval Culture - The Image and the City, and Renaissance Culture - A New Sense of Order. Spines sunned. 380 pages each. Black & white photography and art. Box sunned with light wear.

Record # 205936


Price: $35.00 

 

The International Scientific Series: Man and the Glacial Period


Wright, G Frederick

Hardcover. New York , D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1892, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 385 pages, b&w illustrations. Previous seller's sticker inside front cover, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Water damage, slightly warped, covers stained.

Record # 808999


Price: $20.00 

 

The Kogoshui or Gleanings from Ancient Stories


Kato, Prof. Genchi and Prof. Hikoshiro Hoshino

Softcover. Tokyo, Japan, Sanseido, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages, plates of manuscripts translated included, fabric softcover; foxing evident on front pages, wear to edges and corners of cover, ex-library copy with stamp on top page edges.

Record # 802437


Price: $38.00 

 

The Wonder that was India: A Survey of the Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent Before the Coming of the Muslims


Basham, A.L.

Softcover. New York, Grove Press, Reprint, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 568 pages. Softcover. Some wear, staining and foxing on text block and cover and spine. Previous crease in back cover and final 50 pages. "With More Than 200 Half-Tone Illustrations".

Record # 2230502


Price: $23.00 

 

Three Regions of Primitive Art


Kubler, George, S. Kooijman and Hallam Movius

Hardcover. New York , Museum of Primitive Art, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 77 pages, 42 b&w plates. Three lectures given at The Museum of Primitive Art.

Record # 406854


Price: $15.00 

Thumb of Knowledge in Legends of FinnScott, Robert D.

Thumb of Knowledge in Legends of Finn


Scott, Robert D.

Softcover. US, Kessinger Publishing Co, reprint, 2003-08-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 461222


Price: $25.00 

 

Tiryns, Mycenae, Ilios, Troy, Troja - 5 Volumes


Schliemann, Heinrich

Hardcover. New York, Arno Press, Reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 5 Volumes. Hardcover. Reprint editions. The 5 volumes are made up of: Tiryns - The Prehistoric Palace of the Kings of Tiryns. Ilios - the City and Country of the Trojans. Mycenae - A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenae and Tiryns. Troy and it's Remains - A Narrative of Researches and Discovies Made on the Site of Ilium, and in the Trojan Plain. Troja - Results of the latest researches and discovies on the site of Homer's Troy, 1882. All 5 volumes with black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copies.

Record # 611741


Price: $125.00 

 

Tragedy of Arthur, The (SIGNED)


Phillips, Arthur

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine, white cover boards and inside very clean. Dust jacket in good shape, covered in protective plastic. From the front flap: "The Tragedy of Arthur explores the tension between storytelling and truth-telling, the thirst for originality in all of our lives, and the act of literary mythmaking, both now and four centuries ago, as the two Arthurs -- Arthur the novelist and Arthur the ancient king -- play out their individual but strangely intertwined. ...Includes Shakespeare's (?) lost King Arthur play in its five-act entirety...."

Record # 30508


Price: $44.00 

 

Treachery in Crete


Palmer, Myron Tim, Illust. by: Myron Tim Palmer

Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Color, b&w illustrations by the author. Nice tight copy with previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. In an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket.

Record # 600148


Price: $40.00 

 

Treasures of Ancient Nigeria


Eyo, Ekpo and Frank Willett

Paperback. New York, Knopf, 1st wraps, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pges. Paperback. Black & white and color photographs.

Record # 204197


Price: $18.00 

 

Two Thousand Years of Oriental Ceramics


Koyama, Fujio & John Figgess

Hardcover. New York , Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 377 pages. 173 illustrations, with 54 tipped-in colorplates. Large, heavy folio. Edgewear, rubbing and tearing to dust jacket with chip missing from lower edge of front cover, and small strip missing from rear cover. Faint tanning to pages. Internally very good.

Record # 857042


Price: $100.00 

 

Umeni Ctyr Svetadilu: Z Ceskych Sbirek Mimoevropskeho Umeni-Vol. 1


Formanovi, W. a B.

Hardcover. Prague, Orbis, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 325 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Volume one only of two volumes. In an edgeworn dustjacket. Text in Czech.

Record # 403214


Price: $40.00 

 

Understanding Maya inscriptions: a hieroglyph handbook


Harris, John F.

softcover . Philadelphia, University Museum Publications, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2nd, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 247 pages. Softcover. Black and white illustrations. Light foxing, otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 469356


Price: $25.00 

 

Universe, The Gods and Men, The - Ancient Greek Myths


Vernant, Jean Pierre

hardcover. New York, H:arper Collins, 1st US, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Transl. from French by Linda Asher. 205 pages.

Record # 64503


Price: $23.00 

 

Varia: A Miscellany of Verse & Prose: Ancient & Modern


Brougham (Editor), Eleanor M.

Hardcover. London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1st, 1925, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages. Hardcover. Spine bound in red with gilt decoration. Covers show some foxing and a bit of soil. Pages show some age yellowing and slight foxing. Binding still quite tight. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf, dated August 1929. Previous bookstore price notation on back endpaper in pencil. Still in decent shape considering its age.

Record # 30801


Price: $25.00 

 

Vilnius: City of Strangers


Briedis, Laimonas

Hardcover. Vilnius Lithuania, Baltos Lankos Publishers, 1st English , 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. History of the ancient and present capital of Lithuania. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, mostly confined to top edge. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952129


Price: $38.00 

Virgil and the Augustan ReceptionThomas, Richard F.

Virgil and the Augustan Reception


Thomas, Richard F.

Hardcover. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 324 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. "Damaged" stamped on title page due to bump to bottom outside corner of covers and text block. Otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230825


Price: $38.00 

 

Voices In Stone -The Decipherment of Ancient Scripts and Writings


Doblhofer, Ernst

Paperback. NY, Collier, rep wraps, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 327 pages.

Record # 56060


Price: $15.00 

 

Wanderings Through Ancient Roman Churches


Lanciani, Rodolfo

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st Edition, 1924, Book: Very Good, 325 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with fraying to board edges & spine. Gilt titles to cover & top edge. Full page, black & white photographs throughout. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf and pages untrimmed. Foxing to preliminary pages and endpapers. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750245


Price: $25.00 

Will of Zeus, The: A History of Greece from the Origins of Hellenic Culture to the Death of Alexander (SIGNED)Barr, Stringfellow

Will of Zeus, The: A History of Greece from the Origins of Hellenic Culture to the Death of Alexander (SIGNED)


Barr, Stringfellow

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 496 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows some wear, chipping, punctures and fading. Inscribed on title page by author.

Record # 2230675


Price: $31.00 

 

Wings Over Hellas


Schoder, Raymond V.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages, color photographs. Edgewear to dust jacket. Else clean and tight.

Record # 454802


Price: $12.00 

 

Wisdom Tree, The


Hawkridge, Emma

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, First Edition, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 504 pages. Hardcover with fold out timeline tipped in to rear. Light tanning to spine. Tender front board hinge. Light toning to edges & profusely illustrated in black & white throughout. Very thin pages, small tears to 4 pages, & wrinkles to lower right corner of pages 305 - 318. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Otherwise clean & with beautiful illustrations.

Record # 751237


Price: $19.00 

 

World of Thought in Ancient China, The


Schwartz, Benjamin I.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 490 pages. Paint marking/underlining in pencil on a few pages, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Dust jacket worn with light rubbing, chipping to edges.

Record # 453827


Price: $15.00 

 

World Prehistory: In New Perspective


Clark, Grahame

Hardcover. US, Cambridge University Press, reprint , 1977-12-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 554 pages. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465972


Price: $25.00 

 

Year 1000, The - What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium


Lacey, Robert & Danny Danziger

Boston, Little Brown , 4th printing, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 230 pages. Dust jacket is really a belly-band.

Record # 305442


Price: $15.00 

Year One : Art of the Ancient World East and West, TheN/A

Year One : Art of the Ancient World East and West, The


N/A

Hardcover. US, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine.

Record # 466973


Price: $25.00 

 

Zakros - The Discovery of a Lost Palace of Ancient Crete


Platon, Nicholas

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 345 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket spine faded. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611739


Price: $15.00 


  

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