Terence Afer (140 results)

Paperback. Condition: VG-. 398pp. Corners & ends of spine lightly chipped; stickers on covers & spine. Notes & appendix. Good reading copy.

Condition: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. iFirst Edition, Thus; ncludes all six comedies. 398 clean, unmarked pages.

Condition: Good. DJ is clean and complete with little wear. Boards are slightly bowed. Pencil markings to endpaper. Contents are clean and reasonably bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Bound in black cloth with gold titles to spine - some wear and rubbing to cover edges - cloth is chipping at crown and foor of spine - former owner's name on inside cover and title page - mild foxing to page edges - pencil scribbles on title page - approx 25% of the pages have some underlines, or marginalia. - a few page corner tips are bent - Overall, a fair to good copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Someone in Latin Club needs to knock it off with the stamp, but the book remains in solid condition. Clarendon Press reprint of Terence?s Adelphi, edited by Rev. A. Sloman, issued as the Second Edition and printed in 1963 per the reprint history. Bound in red cloth with black ornamental borders, this copy is in Very Good condition for a former school text: the boards remain bright with only moderate rubbing and mild corner wear; interior hinges are strong; and the text block is clean and solid. Institutional Latin Club stamps appear on the endpapers and rear board, and there is scattered but neat pencil annotation in the text, consistent with careful academic use. Pages are fresh with light toning only, and the binding is tight with no loosened gatherings. A surprisingly well-preserved and highly usable copy of this long-respected Oxford classical school edition. Publius Terentius Afer (Terence) was a North African-born Roman playwright of the second century BCE whose refined, elegant comedies shaped the development of Western drama and Latin style. Drawing from Greek New Comedy, he crafted plays noted for realism, psychological insight, and balanced dialogue. Adelphi remains one of his most studied works for its portrayal of education, family morality, and differing philosophies of childrearing.…

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Independently published collection , 2023. 1 volume format In-8 bon.

Condition: New. In English.

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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. xxxiii, 224 pp. Text in Latin and English. Slight rubbing to the cover edges. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. "Manuscript reproduction, facing transcription, edited Latin text, notes, vocabulary." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Support Small Business by buying this book! An edition of Terence deemed of some merit, as it has now been reissued by Routledge. This is an older, second edition (first edition copright 1962 by Roturman; this is 1968 by Frederick Ungar). Nice hardback, now protected in archival mylar. No marks noted in text. Binding sound. Some chipping and tearing to the top of the dust jacket, which is still generally good. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. New Edition. Pp.lxii, 495. Illustrated with engravings. Vol. 1 only of 6. Full calf. Marbled pastedowns & endpapers. Ex-priory lib.Covers worn & scuffed. Tears to one plate, but no loss. Dewey classification number on lower spine. Worm hole right through the book from f.f.e.p. to the end restricted to lower margin. Text unaffected.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 2nd edition, third printing ; brick red cloth ; covers worn ; front hinge starting ; name on ep ; penciling, heavy in Adelphoe ; slight foxing ; old book store stamp ; FAIR. Book.

DUAL ENGLISH LATIN TEXT, THIS VOL ONLY, sm octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Scuff in backstrip at foot of spine. With the ownership inscription of R.J.G. Mayor, Eton College.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. A collection of 12 comedic plays by Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), the Second Century BC Roman playwright. Likely born in Carthage (in present-day Tunisia), Terence was brought to Rome as a slave where he became educated and excelled at writing comedies. Per Wikipedia, "His plays were heavily used to learn to speak and write in Latin during the Middle Ages and Renaissance Period, and in some instances were imitated by William Shakespeare." Six of the plays are written in prose, literally translated by Henry Thomas Riley with notes, the rest in blank verse translation of George Colman. An entry in Harper's New Classical Library series. --- In full violet cloth-covered boards with elaborate decorations in blind to covers & spine; gilt-stamped spine titling. --- With pronounced sunning to spine, dulling to spine gilding (making titling virtually unreadable), and with the sticker or rubberstamping of three prior owners to front endpapers, else a tightly-bound, well-preserved copy.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; [6], 609 pages.…

Brossura. Introduzione, traduzione e note di Giuseppe Zanetto. Bur L835 Numero di tavole: 0 pp.184 9788817168359 altezza 18 larghezza 0 Esemplare in condizioni molto buone.Lievi tracce di polvere e di ingiallimento alla copertina.Pagine brunite ai bordi.Testo latino a fronte.Testo in Lingua Italiana.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Modern Library Edition. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Slight creasing to first few pages, mainly introduction.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall.

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Methuen & Co, London 1964. VII+182 pages. Orig. cloth. With notes. Good. * With the name of the danish professor and classical scholar Johnny Christensen on flyleaf.

Volume III. of 3. Nouvelle Edition. 12mo. (16cm. tall x 10cm.). pp. ii, 369. With 11 plates engraved on copper. Red letter title. In full contemporary leather. 5 raised bands to spine. Lacks the leather title label. The boards are well rubbed and a little worn at the corners. Worn at head and tail. The free endpapers and first and last blanks are browned on the outer margins. The text shows light browning of the outer edges of the margins, but is otherwise clean and free from foxing. A very good sound copy. …

Volume II. of 3. Nouvelle Edition. 12mo. (16cm. tall x 10cm.). pp. ii, 417. With 16 plates engraved on copper. Red letter title. In full contemporary leather. 5 raised bands to spine. Lacks the leather title label. The boards are well rubbed and a little worn at the corners. Worn at head and tail. The free endpapers and first and last blanks are browned on the outer margins. The text shows light browning of the outer edges of the margins, but is otherwise clean and free from foxing. A very good sound copy. …

Aris and Phillips Ltd, Warminster 1990. 170 pages. Original white, soft cover. Spine, top of cover and top edge yellowed. Small fold to front cover. Owner's name to halftitlepage. Very good-. * Edited with translation, introduction and commentary by S. Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp xii, 304. Frontis illustration. Signed presentation copy from John Benson Rose to Henry Lee Gray whose bookplate is on the pastedown. Also tipped in at prelims is an obituary notice and a good 4 page signed autograph letter to Henry Lee Gray from J B Rose discussing the comedies and their performance at Westminster school and literature and translation. Original publisher's brown pebbled cloth lettered gilt at the spine and lined in gilt on covers. Apart from a couple of neat stamps of the Dominican Fathers (Edinburgh) the book is in clean vg condition. Signedes.…

Two parts in one volume. Edited with introduction and notes by Sidney G. Ashmore. Oxford University Press American Branch, New York 1967. Eight printing. 289+340 pages. Publisher's brown cloth. Boards with some stains. * With the name af the danish professor and classical scholar Johnny Christensen.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 358 pp. Two volumes bound as one. 6.5" x 4.25". Attractive full red morocco binding, but front board detached. An attractive edition, with nice little engraved plates of masks preceding the plays. Contemporary ownership signature of a "Mary Finch".