Literature & Literary
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The Iliad and The Odyssey
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Limited Edition.
27.5cm x 16cm. [ii], 927, [1], [ii], 757, [1] pages, 2 volumes. Full niger morocco leather, raised bands, gilt lettering, gilt top edge, other edges deckle, marbled endpapers, no slipcases. Text is bilingual, English and Greek.
Full leather limited and numbered editions of Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey in Greek from the Oxford Classical Texts with the English translated by Alexander Pope from the first (1715) edition presented in parallel. The Iliad is number 147 of 1,541 and The Odyssey is number 617 of 1,300. These copies once belonging to the Countess Berkeley of Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, and baring her colour armorial bookplates, together with an original purchase invoice dated 30 November, 1931, made out to her in pencil from John & Edward Bumpus, Ltd., Booksellers to His Majesty the King.
The Iliad leather is much lighter than The Odyssey as is usual, though the spine has further discolouration. Minor marks to the leather with a pin size hole to the leather on the lower panel of The Iliad. Very minor handling wear. Very Good Condition. -
Fallen Women: A Sceptical Enquiry into the Treatment of Prostitutes, Their Clients and Their Pimps, in Literature
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First Edition.
22cm x 14cm. xiii, 210 pages, [8] pages of black and white illustrations. Brown cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.
Very Good Condition in Good Jacket. Foxing to top edge, minor to other edges, and jacket verso. Very minor tanning to endpapers. Booksellers label, Foyles, London. Jacket shelf worn. Very Good Condition. -
Erasmus of Rotterdam
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 15cm. [x], 247 pages, black and white illustrations. Cream cloth, red lettering, top edge red, no jacket.
Binding soiled. Endpapers and edges foxed. Good Condition. -
Centenary Gift Book
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Limited Edition.
26cm x 19cm. 166 pages, illustrations, some colour, 18 plates. Two tone blue cloth, gilt lettering.
Limited to 200 numbered copies signed by Lady Huntingfield, of which 190 copies are for sale, and this being number 127. “Profits from the sale of this book will be devoted to the Fund for the Memorial to the Pioneer Women.” (from title page) The contents of the book: stories, poems and general articles are all written by women including Mary Grant Bruce, Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, Henry Handel Richardson, Katharine Susannah Prichard and Edna Walling. The illustrators include Ellis Rowan, Ola Cohn, J. C. A. Traill, Clarice Beckett, Violet Teague, Ide Rentoul Outhwaite and E. Hilda Rix Nicholas.
Soiling and discolouration to cloth, crown and tail of spine lightly pushed, fore-edge corners worn. Foxing to edges and endpapers, minor foxing to textblock. Previous owners’ names crossed through. Good Condition. -
Heat: Australia’s International Literary Quarterly (14 Volumes)
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Collecting issues 1-14 of Heat literary magazine, published 1996-2000.
Set is in Good Plus Condition, by which we mean it has moderate marks of age and is well worn from handling, but is still intact and good for reading. Good Condition. -
A History of Classical Greek Literature (4 Volumes)
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Third Edition.
19cm x 14cm. x, [2], 293 + [3], 279 + vii, [2], 219 + [3], 236 pages. Blue cloth, gilt decoration and lettering, blind to rear boards.
Volume I, Part I: The Poets, with an appendix on Homer by Prof. Sayce; Volume I, Part II: The Dramatic Poets; Volume II, Part I: The Prose Writers, from Herodotus to Plato; Volume II, Part II: The Prose Writers, from Isocrates to Aristotle. 4 Volumes in total.
Bolts unopened. Very minor to minor mottling, dampstaining, and wear to cloth, moderate cracking and small piercing to spine of Volume III, minor ringstain to front board of Volume IV. Previous owner’s inscription in ink, Volume I. Very minor to minor foxing. Good Condition. -
Great Books of the Western World (60 Volumes)
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Second Edition. Second Printing.
24cm x 16.5cm. 60 volumes + guide booklet. Black bonded leather, gilt lettering, gilt top edge.
Complete set of the Britannica Great Books of the Western World, being 60 volumes featuring 517 works by 130 of Western Civilization’s greatest literary, philosophical, political, religious, and scientific minds together with the two volume Syntopicon index and the saddle-stapled guide booklet. Works by Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripdes, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen, Euclid, Archimedes, Nicomachus, Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Plotinus, Virgil, Plutarch, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Calvin, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rabelais, Erasmus, Montaige, Shakespeare, Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Milton, Pascal, Moliere, Racine, Newton, Huygens, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Swift, Voltaire, Diderot, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Gibbon, Kant, American State Papers, The Federalist, J. S. Mill, Boswell, Lavoisier, Faraday, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Tocqueville, Goethe, Balzac, Austen, George Eliot, Dickens, Melville, Twain, Darwin, Marx, Engels, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Ibsen, William James, Freud, Bergson, Dewey, Whitehead, Russell, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Barth, Poincare, Planck, Einstein, Eddington, Bohr, Hardy, Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Dobzhansky, Waddington, Veblen, Tawney, Keynes, Frazer, Weber, Huizinga, Levi-Strauss, Henry Hames, Shaw, Conrad, Chekhov, Pirandello, Proust, Cather, Mann, Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, O’Neill, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Brecht, Hemingway, Orwell, and Beckett. International customers please contact for a shipping quote.
Set is in Near Fine Condition with minor foxing to edges and minor wear and marks to the leather on some volumes. Guide booklet is in Good Condition with some foxing and staining. Near Fine Condition. -
C. Suetoni Tranquilli De Vita Caesarum: Libri VII-VIII
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First Edition.22cm x 16cm. [viii], 662 pages. Green cloth, rubbed gilt lettering, no jacket.
Galba, Otho, Vitellius. Divus Vespasianus. Divus Titus. Domitianus. With introduction, translations, and commentary by Geroge W. Mooney. Text is in Latin and English
Slightly cocked. General wear to board edges. Minor foxing to edges and endpapers. Adhesive residue marks to endpapers. Bookseller label of Grahames, Sydney, previous owner’s signature. Good Condition.