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A collection of Sonnets translated from portuguese.

xiii + 381 pp., including a "Cast of characters" and Appendix essay on "Virgil's Life and Times." Verse translation by Rolfe Humphries. Some underlining and marginal notes in early pages and in the Appendix. Binding tight. Cover scuffed but basically in good condition. Spine faded, with minimal creasing.

xi + 82 pp., plus b/w map of the region. Poetry from a couple of dozen Greek writers, translated by Richmond Lattimore. Underlining and marginal notes on many pages (much of it quite useful!). Binding tight. Cover somewhat brown with age, but clean and without creases or tears. Spine also in very good condition.

Jove, 1981. Paperback. Used:Good. 1 1/2 X 1 1/2" PIECE MISSING FROM COVER, CREASING

8" x 5.5", 267 pages. Clean copy, old new book - some minor scuffing from being on a shelf, but not read. "Great poet though he is, Propertius (born 50 B.C.) has been relatively little read. His chief subjects are love, death, and Roman life. This...edition offers an excellent, readable, poetic translation." Our book number 46035.

xxii + 426 pp., including index. Edited and with introduction by Moses Hadas. Miscellaneous translators. Pages clean, binding tight. Grayish cloth cover has minimal insect damage. Dust jacket has extensive insect damage to edges.

Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1999. Trade pb. Very Good/No DJ Issued. Very Good. No dust jacket, as issued. light front cover creasings, cover and pgs. clean and unmarked. Dover thrift editions. Unknown printing. xvi, 239 p. ; 21 cm. 8vo 7" to 9" tall. Stated First Dover Edtion,

xx + 412 pp. Edited and with introduction by Casper J. Kraemer, Jr. Numerous translators, detailed in the Acknowledgments (page v). Pages clean except for previous owner's name stamp on second page. Binding tight. Green cloth cover in fair condition with some insect damage. Dust jacket intact but with more significant insect damage. Basically, the interior of the books is in VG condition; the exterior, not so much,

Middlesex (England): Penguin Classics, 1983. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Former Owner Stamp & Signature. The famous and timeless Greek classic. The wanderings of Odysseus after the Trojan War, his adventures and heroic struggle against monsters, beasts, and the Gods themselves. Companion to Homer's "The Iliad". Translation by E.V. Rieu. Softcover, 365pp. A very nice copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Modern Library, 1964. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/fair. Modern Library Giant G89.1. C. 1965 printing. Book is fine in blue boards. Bright black, red & white dust jacket has the $3.95 price on the flap. Edgewear, tears and couple of 1" chips on the dust jacket.

Logan, UT: Utah State University, 2005. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 57pgs, beautiful copy

New York: Modern Library, 1936. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/very good +. ML 141.2. Late 1940s reprint. Green boards with gold titles on black boxes. Previous owner name on front pastedown endpaper and on verso of flyleaf. Bump on top board corner. Tan and brown dust jacket with price $1.25 on flap. Few creases on jacket. 120 odes and 42 longer poems, edited & intro by Casper Kraemer.

London: Phoenix Poetry, 2003 1st ed. thus. 117pp. + chronology. grey cloth 16mo w/sewn-in marker ribbon: Fine in a Fine dj. A handsome little volume of the poetry of Roman poet Ovid (43 BC-AD 17) selected by a British scholar.

Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1986. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 269, (4) pp. Rubbing to the cover edges; the binding is tight and square, and the text is clean; the spine is not creased.

Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Trade Paperback. Very Good. bumped corner

New York: W.W.Norton, 1975 Book. Illus. by Trans. Thelma Sargent). Very Good. Soft cover. Reprint. "The Homeric Hymns are a collection of poems in the oral tradition collected from around the 7th. century B.C that celebrate the gods and goddesses of the Greek Pantheon.The poems are simple narratives, the longer poems are straightforward narrative and have been so translated". 82p. .

Chicago: Phoenix/University of Chicago Pr., 1971 Book. Fine. Pbk. Reprint. "Enlarged edition with more than a hundred peoms and poetic fragments from the great age of Greek lyric potery - in robust and graceful modern translation." Pbk. 82p..

Modern Library, 1953, 1st . Hardcover . VG/VG. Trace of shelfwear; couple light bumps; spine tiny bit cocked. DJ w/ bit of edgewear/chips; 1in chip lower front; in new Brodart protector. A collection of Greek poetry from the earliest times to the fifth century A.D.

New York: The Authors Club, 1930. First, Limited edition. Hardcover. Good. Quarto, 35 pages, cloth sunned. One of 1100 copies. "Lovers of literature and widely known critics regard Professor Woodberry's 'Virgil' because of the profundity of its interpretation, the universal content of its philosophy, and the rare beauty of its language, as one of those writings which, critical in inception, belong to the realm of creative literature." "... the greatest of essays on Virgil ever written by an American scholar - Foreword."

New York: Macmillan, 1937. Cheap Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. 8vo; xxxvii, 373 pages, faded acquamarine cloth, some brown spots on some pages; nicked dj Butcher and Lang's prose translation here of THE ODYSSEY was widely used - including in THE HARVARD CLASSICS. It has been noted for its "archaic but attractive style, and is among Andrew Lang's earliest efforts. Scott was Professor of Greek at Northwestern University. This work is in the Royal Editions series by Macmillan.