Ancient World from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Amsterdam/Oxford/New York: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1976. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jackets. 204pp; 408pp. Near fine/very good. Both jackets faintly edgeworn, with lightly sunned spines. Surprisingly scarce first editions of BOTH volumes of these Neoplatonic critiques of Plato's famous fourth and final dialogue about Socrates' last days, also known as "On… Read more about this item

New York: Lippincott & Crowell, 1980. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and blue paper over boards, dust jacket. viii, 448pp. Maps. Near fine/near fine. Ownership signature on front/rear flyleaves and at top of couple text pages. Tight and sharp reprint edition of the sixth printing of this (to cite front jacket panel) "modern guide… Read more about this item

Verona, Italy: The Limited Editions Club, 1972. Hardcover. Introduction by Reginald H. Barrow. Illustrations by Salvatore Fiume. Small 4to. Purple patterned linen with black gilt-lettered spine label. xxvii, 299pp. Full-page color plates. Near fine. Lacks slipcase. The sixth title in the LEC's 40th series, this is a careful selection of the first century B.C. Roman statesman/writer/philosopher's work by noted… Read more about this item

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1967. Hardcover. Translation by John Ross. 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 441pp. Extensive illustrations, with many tipped-in color plates. Near fine/near fine. Touch of spotting to outer page edges; two small stars inkstamped on front pastedown. Lovely and tight first edition of this massive, outstandingly illustrated, six-plus pound… Read more about this item

New York: The Heritage Press, 1942. Hardcover. Translation by Alexander Pope. Illustrations by John Flaxman. Small 4to. Blue blind-ruled cloth with gilt spine lettering, slipcase. xi, 357pp. Numerous full-page illustrations. Very good/very good. Spine well sunned, else tight and internally fine; front flyleaf ownership signature; slipcase a bit age toned. Tight and nice edition, with relevant "Sandglass" issue laid… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. xii, 144pp. Near fine/near fine. Text block would rate fine but for a modest amount of pencilled and inked margin notes and front flyleaf inkstamped name/address. Tight and sharp reprint edition of the Wiles Lectures delivered at Queen's University in Belfast in 1963… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1979. Hardcover. Contemporary verse by Robert Fitzgerald. Illustrations by W.T. Mars, Small 4to. Dark brown leatherette with gilt spine lettering, rules and decorations. 502pp. All edges gilt. Full-page illustrations, map, decorative endpapers. Near fine. Poet and critic Fitzgerald's 1961 rendering of the classic epic poem is one of the most highly regarded, and… Read more about this item

San Diego: Canterbury Classics, 2011. Hardcover. Translation by Samuel Butler. Introduction by Stephanie Lynn Budin. Small 4to. Mustard leatherette with black lettering and black/gilt pictorial stamping. xiv, 639pp. All edges gilt. Sewn-in burgundy satin page marker. Pictorial endpapers. Fine. Small inked note on title page. Attractive and tight modern back-to-back edition. The English novelist and critic (1835-1902) best known… Read more about this item

New York: Dover Publications, n.y.. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. xlviii, 300pp. Extensive line drawings. Near fine. Superb and tight modern reprint of Dover's 1962 reprint of a title originall published as "Costume of the Ancients" in 1812. A great reference, chock full of line drawings.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. Hardcover. Translation by Rosario V. Munson. 8vo. Blue cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 186pp. Illustrations. Very good/near fine. First edition, tight and nice, of this volume in the "Ancient Society and History" series.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1960. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown and tan decorated cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 276pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn only. Superb, tight 'n' bright first edition.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 176pp. Color frontispiece, numerous illustrations (most color), maps, floor plans. Near fine. Superb and tight first edition of this in-depth study of ancient Roman art and architecture.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. viii, 183pp. Fine/very good. Faintest of jacket edgewear only. First edition, superb and tight.

New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1931. Hardcover. 12mo. Dark blue blind-ruled cloth with gilt spine lettering. 188pp, (6pp). Top edge gilt. Near fine. Front pastedown ownership signature. Superb, tight first edition of this Greek-focused survey -- and the last work by the noted Latin scholar and Harvard professor (1866-1931).

Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pictorial paper over boards. viii, 415pp. Tables. Fine. Tight, superb first edition.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1976. Hardcover. Translation by Richmond Lattimore. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. 527pp. Very good/very good. Outer page edges faintly speckled; jacket spine rather sunned. Just a book club edition of what's generally considered the greatest Iliad translation ever -- but super tight, clean, unmarked and nice.

New York: Dover Publications, 1968. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pale green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 127pp. Extensive illustrations. Very good/very good. Some foxing and faint dampstain to a few leaves, with jacket a but sunned. First English language edition of this 1961 study, with avast array of illustrations showing decorations from Greek vases, textiles, pottery, etc.… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1975. Hardcover. Small 4to. Mustard paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 200pp. Illustrations (some color), maps, floor plans, line drawings. Very good/near fine. Tight and quite nice, but portions of text are heavily, neatly underlined in pencil, red pen and orange grease pencil. First edition, tight and attractive despite noted… Read more about this item

London: Thames and Hudson, 1997. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 216pp. Frontispiece, map, numerous illustrations (some color). Near fine. Remainder mark on bottom page edges. Tight, handsome first edition of this well-illustrated volume in the "World of Art" series.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with black spine lettering, dust jacket. viii, 280pp. Fine/near fine. Jacket spine ever so faintly sunned. Handsome early (not first) printing, exceptionally tight and bright.