New York: Random House, 1972. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, gilt and silver titled red cloth, 308pp, gold endpapers, black top-edge. #34 of 300 copies of the first edition that have been specially bound and signed by the author. A winner of the National Book Award winner comprised of three.....
New York: Weybright and Talley, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 6-1/4 x 8-1/4", 1/2 purple cloth, off-white paper over boards, 121pp. Presentation inscription signed by the author on first free endpaper - "For Stanley, my very dear Friend, whose ideas are close to mine, & mine to Stanley's, with love &.....
Harper, 2021. Hardcover. "With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War."--Madeline Miller, author of Circe Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, a gorgeous retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of the many women involved.....
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1976. Leatherbound. 5-7/8" x 8-7/8", 664pp, 552pp, gilt decorated blue full leather, raised spine bands, all edges gilt, moire endpapers, ribbon markers. From the Franklin Library limited edition series "100 Greatest Books of All Time." In contemporary verse by Robert Fitzgerald. An attractive and collectible.....
Penguin Books, 2015. Paperback. The remarkable but neglected story of Aristotle's founding role in the scientific study of nature Both a travelogue and a study of the origins of science, The Lagoon shows how an ancient thinker still has much to teach us today. Aristotle's philosophy looms large over the.....
New York Review of Books, 2019. Paperback. "The role of the critic," Daniel Mendelsohn writes, "is to mediate intelligently and stylishly between a work and its audience; to educate and edify in an engaging and, preferably, entertaining way." His latest collection exemplifies the range, depth, and erudition that have made.....
Harper, 2020. Hardcover. Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in our country. -- James Mattis, General, U.S. Marines (ret.) & 26th Secretary of Defense...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5-3/4 x 8-3/4", red cloth, xiii, 397pp, notes, Who's Who, appendix. A bilingual collection of the work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson.Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630 b.c......
Pasadena: Abbey Garden Press, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, red cloth, xvii, 282pp. With Abridged English-Classical Supplement, Bookplate first paste-down endpaper, very good.
