Search Results: Classical Literature from Adagio Books

Milano: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 1955. Soft cover. Very Good. Italian text in very good condition. Text and cover tanning. Minor shelfwear including a sticker stain on front cover. Size: 4 x 6

Beijung, China: Foreign Language Press, 1983. Soft cover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8. Feng Zikai. In very good, clean condition; shows light wear; price stamped on title page. Provides one hundred and twnety-one of the best ancient Chinese fables, mostly from the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. The source of each fable, and introductions to the authors and the original dates of publication are given in the notes following the text.

Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company. Paperback. Fair. In clean, unmarked condition. Light blue cover is tanning around edges with a 1/2" tear on the bottom edge. Otherwise minor shelfwear. Text block tanned. 95 pages. Size: 3 1/2 x 5

Grove Press, 1961. First Edition. . Soft cover. Very Good. Stated First Edition in very good, clean condition with very slight shelfwear. Remainder mark along top edge. Uncreased spine. Evergreen Profile Book 22. Photographs, drawings, prose and verse selections from Baudelaire with incisive biographical and critical text. Size: 4 1/2 x 7

Spain: Liber, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good. 8 1/2 x 11. Glossy pictorial hardcover. No D/J. Text is in English. Translated by J. Peter Tallon. In very good clean condition. Along with chapter synopis, presents a fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript edition of the reknown Italian Renaissance work.

The Modern Library. In good condition with bumped corners and head/heel of spine. Outer edge of text block has a 1/2" smudge on the bottom which does not penetrate into margins. Text block tight and bright. Size: 6 x 8 1/2 . Good. Hardcover. 1950.

Henry Holt & Co, 1988. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. 9 x 11. Reg Cartwright. First American Edition. First printing. An unused glossy pictorial hardcover book. No dust jacket. Presents a selection of stories from the Canterbury Tales including The Knight, The Wife of Bath, The Miller plus others. All beautifully illustrated.

New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Pub. Co, 1993. Soft cover. As New. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. Willy Pogany. This is a new, unused school-issued edition of The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy retold in prose by Padraic Colum for young readers. Illustrated.

New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Pub. Co, 1993. Soft cover. As New. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. Willy Pogany. This is a new, unused school-issued edition of The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy retold in prose by Padraic Colum for young readers. Illustrated.

New York: American Book Company, 1895. Hardcover. Good. 5 x 7 1/2. In good, clean condition. Previous owner's name inked on front endpage. Otherwise unmarked. Both cover and outer edges of text tanning. Cover shows edge/shelfwear. Both Latin and English text.

New York: Sterling Press, 2007. Hardcover. As New. 5 x 7 1/2. Brief Insights series. New with minor shelfwear to cover. Examines the significance of myths in different times and explores how myths are used and understood in different cultures. Illustrated.

Whitefish, Montana, U.S.A.: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 1999. Soft cover. Good. In good, clean, unmarked condition with minor shelfwear and smudging along lower outer edge of text block. Does not penetrate into margins. Size: 8 1/2 x 11

Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company. Paperback. Fair. In clean, unmarked condition. Light blue cover is tanning around edges with one small 1/4" tear on bottom edge and multiple creases on one corner. Text block tanned. 127 pages. Size: 3 1/2 x 5

Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company. Paperback. Good. In clean, unmarked condition. Light blue cover is tanning around edges with one 1/2" tear on the top edge and one light corner crease on the rear cover. Text block tanned. 128 pages. Size: 3 1/2 x 5

Citta di Castello: Edimond, 2011. Soft Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good. Italian text in very good, clean, unmarked condition with minor shelfwear. Il testo di Campanella inquadra, con uno stile sobrio, preciso e chiaro, Dante Alighieri ponendolo in rapporto con il contesto letterario e storico, la sua concezione della religione, della letteratura, della politica e in ultimo del mondo. Size: 6 x 9 1/2

Rowohlt, 1996. Soft cover. Good. German text in good, clean, unmarked condition with minor shelfwear and text beginning to tan. Size: 3 1/2 x 6

Chicago: Encycolpaedia Brittanica, Inc., 1952. Hardcover. Like New. Translated by Charles Eliot Norton. #21 in the 1952 set of Great Books of the Western World, University of Chicago. Tan cover with green title bands and gold lettering. Contains the entire three books of the Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. Text is clean. Size: 6 1/2 x 9 1/2

The Modern Library. Translated by Samuel Putnam. Front end page neatly cut out. Otherwise book has minimal wear. Dust jacket has a couple of small creases on the front bottom edge. Text bright and tight. Size: 6 x 8 1/2 . Very Good. Hardcover. 1988.

New York: Standard Book Company, 1930. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. This book is in good, clean, unmarked condition. Foxing inside covers. Black leatherette covers show edgewear and bumped corners. Fading on spine. Spine slightly cocked. Pages yellowing. Size: 5 x 7 1/2

Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1924. Paperback. Fair. In clean, unmarked condition. Light blue cover is tanning around edges with a 3/4" tear on the spine edge resulting in tears in the pages beneath it (cover to page 25) . Text block tanned. 57 pages. Size: 3 1/2 x 5