Richmond, VA: Normand White, 1826. Edition not stated. Octavo (22cm); full dark brown calf, gilt titling on spine, pale yellow edgestains; 444pp. Leather moderately scuffed and scratched, with scattered small bumps and gouges, abrasions, edgewear; spine creased, somewhat tanned. Textblock comprehensively foxed, with dampstains and soiling throughout; pastedowns torn along..... More

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. First Edition. Modern translations into English of two Greek plays. First Printing. Octavo (20cm); light pink paper-covered boards, with title label mounted to spine, and decorative elements embossed to front cover; dustjacket; [iv],118,[2]pp. Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dustjacket, with gentle..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1871. Reprint. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's sheep, maroon morocco gilt spine label, all edges marbled; vii,[3],349pp. Boards quite rubbed and worn with brief peeling of leather to upper cover and spine ends, upper cover starting to separate; contemporary student's ownership bookplate to front pastedown and pencil..... More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First Thus. Octavo (23.75cm.); original cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; [2],304pp. Fine. More

[Woodstock, VT: Elm Tree Press, n.d., ca. 1920]. First Thus. Small octavo (20cm.); original green pictorial stitched wrappers; unpaged. Light wear from handling, faint dampstain to bottom edge of upper wrapper, else Very Good. Forms part of the series "Horatian Reprints," providing verses by Horace in both the original Latin..... More

Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1856. First Edition. Large octavo (25cm); three quarter brown leather with marbled paper covered boards; spine in six compartments, gilt-stamped title in second, others stamped in black; marbled endpapers, all edges dark red; XIV, 544pp. Boards rubbed, with some chipping and surface loss to..... More

Paris: Librairie de Firmin Didot Frères, Fils et Cie. 1859. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo (21.5cm.); contemporary red morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt spines in five compartments, all edges speckled brown, marbled endpapers; [4],vi,[2],386; [4],391pp. Boards quite heavily rubbed with exposure to corners, textblock uniformly foxed throughout. About Very Good only..... More

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. First Edition. Wrapper issue. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); xxix,516pp. Mild spotting to top edge of text block; mild corner-creases to covers; still a tight, unmarked, Near Fine copy. There was a simultaneous hardcover issue. More

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, [1942]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's staplebound card wrappers in grey decorative dust jacket printed in red and black; 30pp. Somer wear to jacket extremities including some chipped splitting along spine edge, ownership bookplate of American ambassador Wymberley Coerr and his wife Janet to half title..... More

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1968]. First Thus. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in pale blue-grey pictorial dust jacket; v,[3],203pp. Jacket spine toned and slightly chipped at crown, bottom corners lightly bumped, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the Persian Heritage Series. More

New York: George H. Richmond & Co., 1896. First Edition. Octavo (18cm); one quarter light grey cloth, with brown paper sides, stamped in gilt; TEG; 58pp. Boards soiled and worn; rubbing and abrasions about extremities. Textblock lightly toned and smudged, especially to deckled edges; illustrated ex libris on front pastedown;..... More

Hanover: C. & W.S. Spear, 1809. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); removed; 15pp. Extremities a bit chipped, stock rather dust-soiled, else Good and sound. Funeral oration of one of Dartmouth's earliest graduates who quickly assumed the role of professor of learned (i.e. classical) languages, a position he held until his death..... More