Books - "literary criticism"
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Happiest Days: The Public Schools in English Fiction
First edition, super octavo, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, iii + 319pp, VG+ (foxing, esp to eps & page edges) in d/w. VG+ (foxing to interior, price label residue to front flap)
PUBLISHER: Manchester University Press 1988
KEYWORDS: first editoin Jeffrey Richards English public schools education literary criticism history British culture society fiction genre Thomas Hughes Frank Richards Kipling Dean Farrar EM Forster PG Wodehouse James Hilton literature
Rome: The Book of Foundations
Octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 282pp, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (slight rubbing & tanning to edges)
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 1991
KEYWORDS: Michel Serres history of Rome Livy literary criticism sociology social science philosophy
Gurdjieff and Mansfield
First edition, octavo, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, xvii + 261pp, VG+ (v sl wear to boards, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (sl wear to covers, light tanning to upper edges and flaps, sl soiling)
PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1980
KEYWORDS: first edition James Moore Katherine Mansfield George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff biography literary criticism
Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America
Super octavo, illus light card covers, xiii + 419pp, VG (fading to spine, slight bruising to cover corners & edges, owner's ex libris label to title page, foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1993
KEYWORDS: Doris Sommer Latin South America politics history literature literary criticism fiction narratology psychoanalysis social history
Satyr Square
A Year, A Life in Rome
Ex-library Hardcover super octavo (VG) in d/w (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Leonard Barkan memoir biography literary criticism travel travelogue Italy Rome
Vergil's Italy
First edition, super octavo, grey/green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 356pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing to spine, some pencil annotation) in d/w, VG (browning, bruising to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Adams & Dart 1971
KEYWORDS: First edition Alexander G McKay history Vergil poetry literature literary criticism
The Nature of Roman Comedy: A Study in Popular Entertainment
With a Foreword and Bibliographical Appendix by Richard Hunter
Super octavo, illus light card covers, xiii + 509pp, VG+ (slight creasing to covers)
PUBLISHER: Bristol Classical Press 1994
KEYWORDS: George E Duckworth classics Roman literature comedy Plautus Terence Menander Latin literary criticism text analysis
From Myth to Icon: Reflections of Greek Ethical Doctrine in Literature and Art
Super octavo, maroon cloth boards with silver lettering to spine & blind lettering to front board, frontispiece, 281pp, illus, VG+ (v slight staining to front board) in d/w, VG+ (bruising to spine extrems, 1cm closed tear to upper front/spine fold)
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1979
KEYWORDS: Helen F North Ancient Greece Greek literature art literary criticism ethics Plato politics society
Auctor & Actor: A Narratological Reading of Apuleius's Golden Ass
Super octavo, illus light card covers, illus title page, xi + 340pp, nr fine (v slight foxing to page fore-edges)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1991
KEYWORDS: John J Winkler Apuleius classics literary criticism Greco-Roman literature religious history Latin
A Companion to Homer
Super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xxix + 593pp, illus, VG (bruising to spine extrems, rubbing to spine, cellotape residue stains to prelims, light foxing to page edges), in d/w, VG- (heavy bruising & creasing to spine extrems & corners, nicks & tears to front corners, light soiling to front flap)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1967
KEYWORDS: Alan JB Wace Frank H Stubbings classics literary criticism Homer Iliad Odyssey Greek
Pindar's Pythian Odes: Essays in Interpretation
First edition, super octavo, blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, viii + 202pp, VG+ (foxing to eps & page edges) in d/w, VG- (browning to spine & edges, foxing, cellotape residue stains internally, 2cm closed tear with 13cm diagonal crease to lower front edge)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1962
KEYWORDS: first edition RWB Burton Pindar Pythian odes Greek literature poems poetry classics literary criticism
The Male Characters of Euripides: A Study in Realism
First edition, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 267pp, VG (light bruising/discolouration to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sl foxing to pgs sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (moderate chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, moderate soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand University press 1952
KEYWORDS: first editoin EM Blaiklock Euripides Greek literature literary criticism text analysis male characters
Weissenborn's Homeric Life
Translated & adapted to the Needs of American Students
Ex library, octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board & blind rule to front board, maroon eps, frontispiece, 144pp, illus, VG- (fading to spine, fraying to spine extrems & board corners, relatively light library markings, label residue damage to front pastedown, three owners' names in pencil & ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: American Book Company 1903 (?)
KEYWORDS: Edmund Weissenborn Gilbert Scoggin Charles Burkitt Homer classics literature literary criticism
Aristophanes and the Comic Hero
Martin Classical Lectures Volume XIX
Super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & gilt Oberlin College motif to front board, iv + 333pp, VG+ (slight rubbing to boards) in d/w, VG (price clipped, bruising, nicks & dampstaining to upper spine extrem, bruising to corners, sellotape residue stains internally, soiling to rear)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1971
KEYWORDS: Cedric H Whitman Aristophanes classics literary criticism classicial Greek literature heroism comic hero
The Oresteia of Aeschylus
This Volume only, quarto, green cloth boards with black lettering to spine & black statue motif to front board, frontispiece, liii + 220pp, illus, VG- (browning to spine, light bruising to spine extrems, browning to eps, foxing & tanning to pages & page edges)
PUBLISHER: George Allen 1900
KEYWORDS: George CW Warr classics Greek literature dramatic poetry poets poems essays literary criticism Aeschylus Oresteia
Homer and His Critics
First edition, super octavo, grey/green buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, xii + 302pp, illus, VG (owner's name & year in ink to fep, browning to eps, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (browning & foxing to spine & rear, 4cm untidy tear to spine upper extrem, small nick to lower spine extrem, bruisng & nicks to corners, 2cm tear & creasing to rear upper corner, tiny hole to rear/spine fold, foxing & fading internally)
PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1958
KEYWORDS: John L Myres Dorothea Gray Greek literature classics Homer literary criticism archaeology anthropology first edition
Seneca
First edition, super octavo, red buckram boards with black lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, vii + 206pp, VG- (browning to spine, fading & soiling to boards, esp front board fore-edge, bruising & fraying to spine extrems, owner's name & year in ink to fep, tanning to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green and Co 1920
KEYWORDS: Francis Holland Seneca biography ethic physic philosophy literary criticism history classics first edition
Herodotus Father of History
First edition, super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, iv + 315pp, VG (heavy foxing to eps, cellotape residue stains to eps, tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG- (cellotape residue stains internally, browning to spine, tanning & foxing, bruising & nicks to rear upper edge & spine upper extrem)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1953
KEYWORDS: first edition John L Myres Herodotus classics literary criticism biography Greek literature history
Aeschyli Persae
Ad Fidewm Manusriptorum Emendavit Notas et Glossarium
TEXT IN LATIN & GREEK, book is re-bound & has four-page prospectus for something else bound in at front, super octavo, blue boards with green cloth spine with black lettering in white label to spine, xxxi + 228pp, VG- (heavy rubbing, bruising & soiling to boards & spine, owner's name in ink to fep, ex library stamp to page preceding originaal 1818 title page, heavy foxing & tanning)
PUBLISHER: Cantabrigiae 1818
KEYWORDS: Carol Jacob Blomfield Aeschylus Persians ancient Greece Rome literature poetry poems literary criticism classics TEXT IN GREEK & LATIN
Maps and Plans Illustrative of Herodotus
Containing The World, Northern Greece, Southern Greece, Coast of Asia Minor, Egypt, The Delta, Leythia, Battle of Marathon, Xerxes Bridge, Thermopylae, Salamis, Platoea, Samos, Mycale, Asia, Lybia, At
First edition (?), all plates present, super octavo, red cloth boards with title label to front board, 4pp adverts + unpaginated double-page maps, illus, VG- (plastic-covered boards, heavy fading & staining to boards, 2cm missing portion to rear board fore-edge, 3cm tear with loss to rear board/spine fold, sellotape residue stains to eps when plastic cover removed, creasing to Battle of Plataea map, foxing & tanning)
PUBLISHER: Oxford 1825
KEYWORDS: J Vincent Herodotus classics maps plans classical history literary criticism