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New York: Random House, 1983. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Large trade paperback. 403 pages. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald. First edition thus, first printing employing Random House practice of number line beginning with "2" but words "first edition" printed directly below [the words first edition were omitted for second and subsequent printings.] No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A lightly read copy, clean, tight and unmarked. Very good+. .

New York: Doubleday Book and Music Clubs, Inc., 1992. Hardcover in original pictorial dust-jacket. 469pp., Book club issue published for Guild America Books. Circa 1970. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, tightly bound copy in a complete dust-jacket with no chips and only one very minor closed tear to rear panel. A fine copy in a very good+ dust-jacket.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Cloth Spine Over Boards. Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harpercollins, 1991. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 270pp. First edition, first printing with number line intact on copyright page. Inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper --for Kerr, All good wishes, Diane 4-23-91. A retelling of ancient and medieval love stoies from Isis and Osiris to Tristan and Iseult. Also includes Inanna and Dumuzi [Summerian]; Shiva and Sati [Hindu]; The Song of Songs [Hebrew]; Psyche and Eros [Greco-Roman]; and Layla and Majnun [Arabic-Persian]. A clean, tightly bound, square book in a clean, complete dust-jacket. Very good in very good dust-jacket.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, black cloth in publisher's dust-jacket. 581 pages. Bibliography, Index of Words and Topics; Index of Proper Names. First edition. Purchased from the private library of John M. Cooper, Emeritus Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, albeit one of the few volumes thus that does not bear his name on the front end-paper [vol. one in paper-back does]. The chapter on Aristoxenus (pp. 120-150) shows mild pencil underlining and brief marginal notation in Greek in Dr. Cooper's hand. Overall a superior copy, but for pencil annotation mentioned above a clean, fresh, square and near as new volume. Very good+ in a fine dust-jacket. .

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Hardcover, olive green cloth, in publisher's green dust-jacket. 375 pages. Published as volume110 in the Loeb Classical Library, this is the third of four volumes, containing Books V and VI of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. Translated by C.F. Smith. Contains three maps, two being fold-out, as called for. An eight page Catalog of the Loeb Classical Library appended at rear. Bi-lingual edition with original Greek text on versos and corresponding English translation on facing rectos. Reprint edition. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh and unmarked copy. Dust-jacket complete with moderate darkening to spine and extremities of inner flaps. Near fine in a very good dust-jacket. .

Beirut, Lebanon: Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi (Arab Book House) Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Large trade paperback bound in boldly colored pictorial wrappers. Text entirely in Arabic. 397 pages. Illustrated with line drawings throughout the text. Edited by Asham Abu Al-Nasr. A mid twentieth century reprint edition, no date of publication given, though there is a note that this is a special edition derived from a manuscript copy. "Kalila and Dimna comprises a collection of moral fables and fables about birds and animals, Kalila and Dimna being the names of two foxes." The present story is actually the third iteration, the story having originated in India and later translated and added to, in Persian, until Al Manfaluti translated it into Arabic in the sixth century, further altering it. From then it was translated into Hebrew in the thirteenth century. The tale has be translated into Ethiopian, Malay, Mongolian, Greek, and many European… Read More

New York: Dover Publications, 1992. Trade paperback. 284 pages + Dover Catalog of Selected Titles appended. With Notes and Vocabulary. An extensive corrected republication of the original title, originally published by Bantam Books, 1961, [publisher's note of the Bantam edition omitted and new Preface added]. Selections of prose and poetry by eleven authors with Latin printed on versos and English on facing rectos. No previous ownership marks. A used copy with usual wear from reading and small stain on lower marginal corner of last dozen leaves, not affecting text. Else book is clean, no spine crease, no underlining or notes. A good copy. . Softcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Washington, D. C.: Mage Publishers, 2007. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, dark blue cloth lettered in gold in publisher's dust-jacket. 292 pages. Index of Headings. Translated by Dick Davis. Illustrated with 10 full page black and white drawings. Stated first hardcover edition. The story of Rostam, ancient Persia's greatest mythological hero, as recounted in the tenth-century Shahnameh (Book of Kings) by the poet Ferdowsi. Book condition: Spine crease from reading and very mild evidence of pencil underlining having been erased. Dust-jacket condition: complete and unmarked, like new. A very good copy in a fine dust-jacket. Scarce. .

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Hardcover, olive green cloth, in publisher's green dust-jacket. 527 pages. Published as volume 106 in the Loeb Classical Library. Translated by C.D. Adams. Contains an Index, Bibliography and an eight page Catalog of the Loeb Classical Library appended at rear. Bi-lingual edition with original Greek text on versos and corresponding English translation on facing rectos. Reprint edition. A clean, square, fresh copy, with no writing or underlining. Dust-jacket complete with only minor darkening to spine and several short tears. Near fine in a very good dust-jacket. .