Published by New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966, 1951, 1966
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 489 p. ; LC: D52; Dewey: 930 ; similar to OCLC: 8647664 ; stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: History and historians : Greek and Roman -- Mesopotamia and Syria -- Egypt -- Hellas before the Persian War -- Hellas in the fifth century -- Alexander and the hellenistic age -- Early Rome and Italy -- Rome and the Mediterranean world -- The Roman revolution -- The age of Augustus -- The early Roman Empire -- The later Roman Empire ; writers include Aeschylus, Alcaeus, Appian, Apuleius, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Arrian, Augustus, Bion, Caesar, Cassius Dio, Cicero, Claudius, Cleanthes, Cleomedes, Demosthenes, Diocletian, Dionysius of Helicarnassus, Epicurus, Euripides, Herodotus, Hesiod, Homer, Horace, Isocrates, Josephus, Juvenal, Lactantius, Livy of Patavium, Lucan, Lucretius, Marcus Aurelius, Nepos, Plato, Pliny the Elder, Plutarch, Polybius, Pseudo-Xenophon, Sallust, Sophocles, Sozomen, Strabo, Suetonius, Tacitus, Thucydides, Tyrtaeus, Virgil, and Xenophon ; marks on first page ; foxing ; flyleaf edge-clipped; slight knock, slight edge wear; else G. Book.
Published by Easton Press 1999-2004, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1999
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Condition: As New. Richard Sparks (illustrator). Collector's Edition. Virgin copies in publisher's shrink wrap. All in handsome black leather boards with gilt Greek key cartouche bordered particulars and titles to boards and spines. Moire endpapers; silk ribbons; smyth sewn. Image one shows another set without publisher's original wraps (i.e. not this set) 6.75 x 9.5 in.
Published by Easton Press, 1998
Seller: Fine Binding Books, Barker, TX, U.S.A.
Full-Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Richard Sparks (illustrator). Uniform black leather binding, featuring comprehensive introductions, exclusive full-color frontispiece art by Richard Sparks. Bound in premium full leathers, hubbed spine, distinctive cover design, beautiful illustrations, permanent satin ribbon page marker, gilded page edges, moire endsheets, thread-sewn pages for durability and strength. List of titles: 1. THE ILIAD, by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles, introduction and notes by Bernard Knox. 2. THE ODYSSEY, by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles, introduction and notes by Bernard Knox, Frontispiece by Richard Sparks. 3. THE ETHICS OF ARISTOTLE: The Nicomachean Ethics, translated by J A K Thomson, Revised with notes and appendices by Hugh Tredennick, introduction and bibliography by Jonathan Barnes. 4. THE LAST DAYS OD SOCRATES: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, by Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant, introduction and notes by Harold Tarrant. 5. THE THREE THEBAN PLAYS: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, by Sophocles, translated by Robert Fagles, introduction and annotations by Bernard Knox. 6. HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, by Thucydides, translated by Rex Warner, introduction and appendices by M I Finley. 7. THE BACCHAE AND MEDEA and Other Plays, by Euripides, translated by Philip Vellacott. 8. THE COMPLETE FABLES, by Aesop, translated by Olivia and Robert Temple, with an introduction by Robert Temple. 9. FOUR COMEDIES, by Aristophanes, translated by Dudley Fitts. 10. THE HISTORIES, by Herodotus, translated by Aubrey de Selincourt, revised with introductory matter and notes by John Marincola. 11. PLAYS AND FRAGMENTS, by Menander, translated with an introduction by Norma Miller. 12. THE ORESTEIA, by Aeschylus, translated by Robert Fagles, introductory essay, notes and glossary by Robert Fagles and W B Stanford. ** SHIPPING CHARGES: Domestic USA shipping is as quoted (almost free); International shipping requires extra (anywhere from $250-$350).