Catullus, Signed (31 results)

Blue card cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition thus. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 21pp. Signed and dedicated by Anthony Astbury on fep.

Affectionately inscribed to the poet Marie Harris by the translator and fully signed. Near fine illustrated stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 18 pages, inscribed and signed by the translator, a very good+ paperback. Signed by Author(s).

Wraps. Condition: Fine. [Fullerton, California]: Lyceum Press, 2006. First edition, #109 of 200 copies signed by Whiteman. Designed, printed, and bound by Wm Erik Voss at the Lyseum Press as a keepsake for the Joint Meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs planned for the fall of 2006 in San Diego, California, but scrubbed out of accidia. Original red paper wrappers, with a printed paper title label on the front. A fine copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Rare. Signed by translator Mario Petrucci, 8 clever and lively "contemporary adaptations with the originals facing" of poems by Catullus: (70) Lesbia would rather, (32) Call me, (69) I am amazed, (23) Furius the way you talk, (5) Live and Let Love Lesbia!, (48) Honey - when it comes, (7) Lesbia why inquire and (11) May each adulterer. A 24-page pamphlet, nicely printed on high-quality paper, with a pleasingly tactile cover. As it says on the copyright page: "Some of these adaptations first appeared in Agenda and have been broadcast on Resonance FM". So there's the right mix of highbrow gate-keeping and entertaining crowd-pleasing. "Mellitos oculos tuos Iuuenti / siquis me sinat usque basiare", for example, is faced with "Honey - when it comes to kissing / we'd outscore Juventus. That goal / of love is in your eyes!" In very good condition, with just a few specks and smudges of shelf wear, close overall to being Near Fine. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. Red wrappers with printed label; 12 mo.Translations of Catullus. Number 4 of 200 numbered and signed (by Whiteman) copies; attractively printed and bound by Wm Erik Voss at the press.lightly wrinkled edge, but still Fine. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Bilingual. ***Signed by Author*** Very good 1st edition hardcover with navy blue cloth to boards and silver lettering to spine. Very good dust jacket with wear to the head and tail of the spine and light toning to the top of the inside jacket. Clean text free of marks or underlining. Author's signature on title page. Book is from the personal library of Professor Green. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Catullus, who lived during some of the most interesting and tumultuous years of the late Roman Republic, spent his short but intense life (?84-54 B.C.E.) in high Roman society, rubbing shoulders with various cultural and political luminaries, including Caesar, Cicero, and Pompey. Catullus's poetry is by turns ribald, lyric, romantic, satirical; sometimes obscene and always intelligent, it offers us vivid pictures of the poet's friends, enemies, and lovers. The verses to his friends are bitchy, funny, and affectionate; those to his enemies are often wonderfully nasty. Many poems brilliantly evoke his passionate affair with Lesbia, often identified as Clodia Metelli, a femme fatale ten years his senior and the smart, adulterous wife of an arrogant aristocrat. Cicero later claimed she poisoned her husband. This new bilingual translation of Catullus's surviving poems by Peter Green is fresh, bawdy, and utterly engaging. Unlike its predecessors, it adheres to the principle that the rhythm of a poem, whether familiar or not, is among the most crucial elements for its full appreciation. Green provides an essay on the poet's life and literary background, a historical sketch of the politically fraught late Roman Republic in which Catullus lived, copious notes on the poems, a wide-ranging bibliography for further reading, and a full glossary.

Original publisher's paperback, pictorial dustyjacket, 8vo: [52]pp., 20 lithographed pages with colouring, 24 verses translated into German. Very fine copy - as new. Printed in 500 signed & numbered copies. This is nr 441.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo, pp 18. Signed to adman John Yeoman, small loosely inserted note about his wife (the dedicatee) spotting a misprint. Very good indeed. Signedes.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Wraps. pp 18. Signed presentation copy: 'H. D. C./ with all good wishes to an old/ friend/ J. A. B. Harrisson.' Fine. Signedes.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Wraps. pp 18. Signed presentation copy: 'John Yeoman all good wishes J. A. B. Harrisson.' John Yeoman was an avertising executive married to the cartoonist 'Anton' Very good indeed. Signedes.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Wraps. pp 18. No. 45 of an unstated number. Signed presentation copy: 'Dennis, for old times/ sake, and for now and the future/ too! Tony 26.3.81/ J. A. B. Harrisson.' About fine. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Ellis, Lionel (illustrator). Limited Edition. Title Page is worded "The Complete Poetry of Gaius Catullus translated by Jack Lindsay with decorations engraved on wood by Lionel Ellis and an essay by the translator about Catullus Clodia and their circle including a full version of Cicero's speech for Caelius and numerous contemporary verses now published by the Fanfrolico Press of London two thousand and thirteen years after the birth of the poet". This is hand-numbered No. 84 and signed by the Translator John Lindsay on the last page. Bound in brown leather with gilt title on thes pine, some scuffing, some wear at spine foot and corners, an ink stain on the back, but remaining strong neat and robust. Hinge and text-block tight, book square. Paged edges darkened. Neat ink inscription inside the front. Some light pencilled notes on the back page. A front end paper may be absent. Pages smooth and clean, very little spotting, with several lovely illustrations within text. A very sound neat and handsome book. May incur additional postage charges overseas. Signed by Author(s).

1st Limited Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper in slipcase. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance; the critic and poetry activist Charles Tomlinson's copy; signed and inscribed by the author to him & his wife, Brenda. Physical description: 283 pages; 25 cm. Subjects: Catullus, Gaius Valerius Translations into English. Epigrams, Latin; Translations into English.Elegiac poetry, Latin. Epigrams, Latin. Love poetry, Latin. Latin literature Classical. 3 Kg.

1st Limited Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper in slipcase. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance; the critic and poetry activist Charles Tomlinson's copy; signed and inscribed by the author to him & his wife, Brenda. Physical description: 283 pages; 25 cm. Subjects: Catullus, Gaius Valerius Translations into English. Epigrams, Latin; Translations into English.Elegiac poetry, Latin. Epigrams, Latin. Love poetry, Latin. Latin literature Classical. 1 Kg.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good (-) (covers soiled).

Condition: Gut. 26 Blatt, eine beiliegende Originalgraphi (Siebdruck) Gutes und sauberes Exemplar. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 230 Broschur, Blockbuchbindung, ca. 23,2 x 14,2 cm Vorzugsausgabe Ex. 7/100 (gesamt 500 Ex.), mit signierten und numerierten farbigen Siebdruck.

46 nn S., illustrierter engl. Broschureinband, Blockbuchbindung. Erste Ausgabe. Mit farbigen und ganzseitigen Offsetlithographien von Pütz. Nr. 115/400 (Gesamt 500) der Normalausgabe, von der Künstlerin signiert. Nicht bei Spindler. Gutes Exemplar, das Buch wirkt ungelesen. Good copy. Handsigned by the artist. Actually it is not possible, sending books to the USA. Aktuell können keine Bücher in die USA versandt werden. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

(Bremen), Carl Schünemann, (1968). 140 S. Mit ganzseit. Illustr. u. 1 Original-Radierung als Beilage. (= Sammlung Dieterich, Sonderausgabe). OHPgt. mit Orig.-SU. (dieser im Rückenbereich leicht gebräunt). [Carmina, dt.]. - VORZUGSAUSGABE: Nr. 55 von 190 numerierten Exemplaren mit beiliegender, vom Künstler SIGNIERTER Original-Radierung. - Otto Bachmann (1915-1996), Schweizer Maler u. Graphiker. - Gutes, sauberes Exemplar.

Hardcover. Condition: poor to vg. First edition. Signed Ernst Hohenemser on front free endpaper. Quarto. (2) 84 (1)pp. Original plain stiff wraps. Possibly a proof copy of the 1920 publication of Catull's poetry published by the famed Berlin handpress Officina Serpentis, founded 1911 by Eduard Wilhelm Tieffenbach. The dedication poem on page one is girded with a decorative frame based on a design by Marcus Behmer, printed in red and black. Text in German. Binding with light staining, missing spine and some tears and creasing in upper left corner of back cover. Front free endpapers barely attached. Page 3/4 creased, pages 3-6 loose. Due to the loose binding the block is starting at various places. Back free endpapers exposed to water along foredges. Pages 73-76 with creases at corner and pencil mark in margin of page 76. 75-78 torn along gutter and loose. Binding in overall poor, interior in fair to good- condition. Ernst Hohenemser was a story teller and writer of aphorisms. He studied law, philosophy and art history and received his doctorate at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He is known for his 1918 publication "Aphorismen" and various translations Catull and Ovid.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 4to. pp 73. Original publisher's cream cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. Latin and English on opposite pages. Two hundred copies have been printed, this being no. 37, each signed by the author ( Arthur Symons). Slight tanning at spine, otherwise bright, very good indeed. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Copy No. 7/15 of A.P. and signed by Michael Tomaszewski, the photographer, and Michael Norman, the binder. Only defect the book has is some bubbling on back board where it may not have been glued down properly. Signed by Author(s).

8vo. pp. 64. Original publisher's stapled red thin card covers cream paper label on upper cover lettered black. Errata slip pastedown on inside cover. Corrigenda slip loosely inserted. Presentation copy: ' Dan, magna cum co-auctions gratia (v. p.6, para. 2), Donald.' The reference states that Donald Hope is grateful to three writers for 'their valuable encouragement and instruction and good critical advice: Tony Harrison, Dan Jacobson and Patrick Creagh'. Dan Jacobson (1929 2014) the South African-born writer, novelist and critic became a professor at University College London. Latin text and English translation. Small paperclip mark on upper cover. VG. Very good indeed.

First edition. Translated with commentary and notes by Jack Lindsay, together with an essay on Clodia and a translation of Cicero's funeral oration for Caelius. Royal octavo. pp [252]. Decorated with 28 wood engravings by Lionel Ellis. Full brown morocco, top edge gilt. Number 256 [of 325 copies]. Some copies were signed by Jack Lindsay; this is one of the many that weren't.A bit of faint mottling to spine. Endpapers very slightly spotted. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. With three divisional title pages, all featuring the Aldine dolphin and anchor device. Bound in contemporary blind-tooled pigskin (lightly soiled, corners bumped, small hole in pigskin at head of spine, wear at extremities), signed "A.S.K." and dated 1562 on the upper board. Title page lightly soiled, intermittent mild foxing, light marginal staining in places. A few manuscript notes and underscores. The binding: decorated with blind-stamped images of Apollo (with harp)and the Muses: Caliope (with zither), Thalia (with lute), Euterpe (with horn), Terpsichore (with viola). The Euterpe stamp is signed "S.N.", that of Terpsichore is dated "1549". The binding is probably the work of the Wittenberg binder Conrad Neidel (active 1542-15602), see Haebler, Vol. I, p. 308. This edition marks the second appearance of the celebrated commentary of Marc Antoine Muret, "the most important commentary on Catullus since that of Parthenius in 1485."(Gaiser). Muret, who had fled France to avoid trial for homosexuality, prepared his commentary while taking refuge in Italy with Paul Manutius. Muret was the first commentator to pair Sappho's Greek poem "Phainetai moi kênos îsos theoisin"(Sappho 31) with Catullus' poem 51, "Ille mi par esse deo videtur", which Catullus based on Sappho's poem. "In 1552 Muret lectured on Catullus and other Latin poets in Paris, perhaps at the College du Cardinal Lemoine or the College de Boncourt. Included in his large and enthusiastic audiences were several poets of the Pléiade -most notably Ronsard, his friend and near contemporary. Muret's lectures created a fashion for Catullan poetry. His own neo-Latin collection, Juvenilia (1552), contains several Catullan imitations, but Catullus is still more important in the poetry of the Pléiade, much of which appeared close on the heels of his lectures."(Gaiser) Late in 1553 Muret was forced to leave Paris, where he was persecuted for being a homosexual. Earlier in the year he had been accused of "unnatural vice" and imprisoned at the fortress of Châtelet "and would have died of starvation had his friends not intervened to secure his release. Disgraced at Paris and reduced to poverty, he fled to Toulouse, where he eked out a living by giving lessons in law. He was accused a second time of having committed sodomy, in this instance with a young man named L. Memmius Frémiot, and on the advice of a councilor he absconded once more. He was sentenced to death in absentia and burned in effigy with Frémiot in the Place Saint-Georges as a Huguenot and sodomite. He crossed the Alps in disguise and was warmly received for a time in Venice, while in France his memory was ceaselessly vilified." (Warren Johansson) Soon after arriving in Venice, in May 1554, Muret was befriended by Paul Manutius, who, learning of his enthusiasm for Catullus, persuaded him to produce a commentary. Muret went to work and completed the task in a little less than three months, as he says in the dedication, dated October 15, 1554. "Since Muret had been in Venice only a few months, his commentary on Catullus was no doubt largely drawn from the Paris lectures. His notes display a combination of learning and poetic sophistication that would have appealed to the Pléiade. More than any of his predecessors except Valerianus, he discusses the artistic qualities of Catullus' work and the details of vocabulary and meter that work together to secure an effect. He appends a poem of his own in galliambics to his discussion of the meter in Cat. 63, discusses the appropriateness of the similes in Cat. 68 (which he regards as perhaps the most beautiful elegy in Latin) and discourses on the delight of studying Catullus' 'translations' in close conjunctions with their Greek models. He is the first commentator to print Sappho's poem with Cat. 51 (see folio 57), and he laments the loss of Callimachus' 'lock of Berenice' in the discussion of Cat. 66 and prints all the fragments of that poem known to him. "Muret is interested in the text, but he is cautious about emendations and adamant in refusing to admit modern conjectures and supplements, no matter how apposite. Muret's commentary was the first to be published since that of Guarinus in 1521 and the most important since that of Parthenius in 1485." (Gaisser, "Catullus", CTC Vol. VII, pp. 260-261) "Previous writers, Parthenius, Palladius, Avancius, Guarinus, had concerned themselves only with the elucidation of textual and grammatical difficulties. Muret pays far more attention to the literary and aesthetic side of Catullus' poems than any other commentator of the period. It is clear that he is professionally interested, as a poet himself and the teacher of poets, in Catullus' mastery of his art. He makes quite a number of literary and aesthetic judgements and these, sporadic and unsystematic though they are, form precious evidence of the sixteenth century attitude to Catullus "On Catullus LI, the translation of Sappho's ode, Muret remarks: 'What man is there, at least amongst those who have some feeling for literature and culture, who does not derive the keenest pleasure in comparing the lines of that woman who far surpasses all men in this genre, and those of the most voluptuous of all the Latin poets?' ("poetae Latinorum omnium mollissimi.") Similarly on Catullus' Coma Berenices (LXVI) he bewails the loss of Callimachus' elegy on the same theme, which deprives posterity of the pleasure of comparing the great Greek poet with Catullus 'Latinorum poetarum sine controversia politissmus'." (Fitzgerald, Catullus and the Reader, the Erotics of Poetry). SECOND EDITION WITH MURET'S COMMENTARY (1st 1554).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. TWO SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS. Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, lacking clasps but with the brass catches, with acorn tools and rolls of 3 of the Muses: Terpsichore, Euterpe (signed N.C.), and Calliope (signed M.A.). First title dusty, damp-stain in the first part of the Martial. Intermittent annotations in the margins of both works and some underscoring in the Tibullus. The three most famous Roman elegiac poets together with the great Roman satirist.

14 x 9, recently rebound in gilt lettered red buckram, 936 pp + index, covers a little worn and soiled, title page with shallow edge-chipping and ink inscription from 1760 and tiny x-ed out ink ex-lib statement, contents edge-toned and finger soiled with minor ink marginalia but still nice and clean and sharp. Scarce edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Format 8°. 139 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Blatt Zeichnungen, 1 Blatt Druckvermerk, 1 Blatt Verlagwerbung und 1 lose beiliegende signierte und numerierte Original-Graphik. Original-Halbpergament mit schwarzgeprägtem Rückentitel mit dem illustrierten Original-Schutzumschlag und dem Original-Pappschuber mit montiertem Deckeltitel. Sehr guter Zustand. Schönes Exemplar. Eines von 190 numerierten Exemplaren einer Vorzugsausgabe mit beiliegender numerierter und signierter Original-Radierung von Otto Bachmann in einer Deckellasche. Mit Frontispizzeichnung und 15 ganzseitigen erotischen Zeichnungen von Otto Bachmann. Mit einem Nachwort und Erläuterungen zum Text von Catullus und zu Otto Bachmann. Sonderausgabe der Sammlung Dieterich. Signatur des Illustrators.

Londini, apud P.H.L. Warner Mediceae societatis librarium, 1911.Un volume (16 x 23 cm) de 318 pages. Reliure plein chagrin lie de vin, dos lisse orné à faux nerfs dorés, titres dorés, sur les premiers plats blasons et devises dorés, toutes tranches dorées. Reliure signée Morley-Oxford. Bel exemplaire.Un des 1000 exemplaires numérotés sur beau papier. Livres.

20 cm 58 S. Oktn. Ill. Mit Widmung von Thomas Kling 'Für Gregor C von Dekorabsichten allseits ungeplagt' Raketenstation 9.6.98 + Gruß von Ute Langanky auf dem Titel. Ferner ein eigenhändiger Doppel-Brief 1 kariertes am Rand perforiertes Bl. , auf der einen Seite von Kling (15 Zeilen und Unterschrift), auf der anderen Seite von Langanky (12 Zeilen und Unterschrift) an besagten Gregor. Interessante Zeilen von Kling zum vorliegendes Büchlein, dass er sich in Zürich an der ETH mit Latinisten über Catull ausgetaucht habe etc. - Klings Übertragung des Catull wurde damals u. a. wegen der teils starken und angeblich sinnentstellenden Kürzungen kritisiert - tadellos (Autograph, signiert, Widmungsexemplar).