The Satyricon of Petronius by Gaius Petronius Arbiter / Paul Dinnage (Trans.) - 1953

NY. Modern Library nd. HARDCOVER. VG/no jacket. (light cover soil, paper aged. previous owner's signature on endpaper else a clean/unmarked/tight copy) Small 8vo. Undated Modern Library Reprint. Full red-violet cloth covers.

NY: Modern Library, 1950. no date given (circa 1950?); dj w/clipped price, lite wear, in mylar; red Blumenthal binding; (#156 in series, lists to 322 titles on dj reverse); 238 clean, unmarked pages. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12 vo.

New York. Book Collectors Association, Inc. (ca 1934). HARDCOVER.. VG+/VG dj. Estate acquisition. Pages 80-81 tanned from a related newspaper clipping: no text loss. No names or writings; no spine creasing. UNCOMMON jacket limp, small edge chips in places o/w complete/bright for 1934. Small octavo. 258pp. Green cloth covers. Gilt stamped spine. SEWN signature binding. Deckle edge. Jacket subtitle: 'A True Record of Roman Pro-fligacy in the Reign of Nero. With the last drops of his life-blood...etc. Book Collectors Association. UNCOMMON with a Jacket. Former owner's old plastic wrap removed. Meager tape 'ghosts' on endpapers. NOT a former library copy.

NY: Modern Library, 1929. no date given (circa 1929?); red flexible c w/gilt titles; Rockwell Kent end papers; lite sunning of spine; (#156 in series, lists to 284 titles on dj reverse); 238 clean, unmarked pages+catalogue. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12 vo.

New York: Privately Printed. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 1930. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Slight abrasion to head edge of front pastedown. Slightest rubbing to spine ends. Ink stamp to rear endpaper. Lacks the publisher's slipcase. Dust jacket chipped at head and tail edges, split along spine, but together in a paper-backed mylar jacket.; This is Gaius Petronius Arbiter's classic satire of the extremes of amoral 'bro culture' in ancient Rome. Copy 625 of 1200 of this edition, "privately printed" during a time of US censorship. The origins of the text are vague, but are believed to be the work of Gaius Petronius Arbiter, Roman Emperor Nero's advisor on matters of taste, fashion, luxury, and extravagance. This book is his satirical retelling of the self-indulgent extremes of immoral living. The manuscript was fragmented, not contiguous, and there are only assumptions about what fragments may be missing and how they linked the known fragments. This… Read More

Ann Arbor: University Of Michigan Press, 1959. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Xxiv, 218 Pp. Orange Cloth Printed In Black. A Scholarly Edition, Dedicated To Saul Bellow. Book Is Fine, No Damage; Dj With Faint Traces Of Rubbing, No Browning But Spine Very Slightly Faded.

Liveright, New York: 1932., 1932 8vo. 269p. DJ. The vivid, elegant, and mildly erotic Satyricon is usually attributed to Nero's friend, Gaius Petronius Arbiter. The surviving portions of the text detail the misadventures of the narrator, Encolpius, and his lover, a handsome sixteen-year-old boy named Giton. Throughout the novel, Encolpius has a hard time keeping his lover faithful to him as he is constantly being enticed away by others. Encolpius's friend Ascyltus (who seems to have previously been in a relationship with Encolpius) is another major character. It is one of the two most extensive examples of the Roman novel, the only other being fully extant Metamorphoses of Apuleius, which is quite different in style and plot. It is also extremely important evidence for the reconstruction of what everyday life must have been like for the lower classes during the early Roman Empire. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W121 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Good Hardcover w/ Fair Dustjacket; red, white and blue spine with black lettering; DJ has discoloration, considerable creasing and tearing to top and bottom edges of spine and corners; boards show some fading and light shelf wear, else clean; binding tight; text block clean; 302 pp. 1348442. FP New Rockville Stock.

Privately Printed, NY?: 1928., 1928 8vo. 236p. Limited to 1200 copies. The vivid, elegant, and mildly erotic Satyricon is usually attributed to Nero's friend, Gaius Petronius Arbiter. The surviving portions of the text detail the misadventures of the narrator, Encolpius, and his lover, a handsome sixteen-year-old boy named Giton. Throughout the novel, Encolpius has a hard time keeping his lover faithful to him as he is constantly being enticed away by others. Encolpius's friend Ascyltus (who seems to have previously been in a relationship with Encolpius) is another major character. It is one of the two most extensive examples of the Roman novel, the only other being fully extant Metamorphoses of Apuleius, which is quite different in style and plot. It is also extremely important evidence for the reconstruction of what everyday life must have been like for the lower classes during the early Roman Empire. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W121 Language: eng. Full Cloth. Hardcover. Very Good.