William Petronius (106 results)

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A Mentor Classic / The New American Library, New York. c1959. Softcover / Mass Market Paperback. A Mentor Classic, MT716, 75˘. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; scant edgewear; small crease at spine from pressure of adjacent book. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 192 pp 12mo. This book is a classic of comedy, a superbly funny picture of Nero's Rome as seen through the eyes of Petronius, its most amorous and elegant courtier. This book recaptures all the ribald humor of Petronius' picaresque satire. The hilarious story of the pleasure-seeking, fortune-hunting adventure of an educated rogue turns every weakness of the flesh, every foible of the mind, to laughter. A clean very presentable copy.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Light shelfwear. ; Meridian Classic; 192 pages.

Flexible Boards. Condition: Good. Flexible cloth hardcover light green, the spine is faded. Inside there is a previous owner's bookplate, but otherwise very good. We ship fast.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Book- Good. All books are clean and unmarked unless stated.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Later Printing. Age discoloration and soiling to wraps. Size: Mass Market Paperback. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Minus. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Gd-. 1st Printing of the 1st Michigan Edition thus, translated, with introduction, by William Arrowsmith. Book has faint hint of cocking, 3" marking out on ffep and 1" soiling along half of rfep and fore edge (does not affect text pages), is securely bound and free of other blemishes and markings; color of dyed top edge is uniformly dark gray. Cover is clean and bright, with sharp corners, bumping to joints, head and tail, straight spine, hinges and edges, and boldly legible, crisply distinct lettering and illustration. No Dust Jacket. (Please see Seller images.) Pre-ISBN. ShiroBooks, independent bookseller, takes pride in accurate descriptions, careful wrapping and safe shipping. PLEASE CONTACT SHIROBOOKS PRIOR TO ORDERING for additional information, details or photos.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good Condition. Five star seller - Buy with confidence!

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Fifth Printing. A nice mass market paperback, with tight binding and an unmarked text.From a private smoke free collection.Shipping within 24 hours with a tracking number and delivery confirmation.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xxii, 218 pp. Introduction by Arrowsmith. Jacket frayed at extremities of spine, short tear mended.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No Edition, Printing Or Date Present. Probably Published In The 1940'S. The Book Is Bound In Brown Cloth With Gilt Lettering Within Black Fields On The Front And Spine. Hinges Sound And No Ownership Information Present. The Book Is Worn At The Edges And The Top Page Edges Are Dust Soiled.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. Sunning to spine and part of front wrap. Creasing to edges of a few pages and corner of rear wrap. Former owner's name on ffep. ; Ann Arbor Paperbacks; 218 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. An excellent, second-hand copy with some mild edge-wear. Professionally applield adhesive plastic protective covering to boards. Owner's name on ffep. Text clean and bright. Binding tight. [ Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine 2. Near Fine 3. Very Good 4. Good 5. Fair ] Size: 12mo. Book.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Good paperback, wear to cover.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Mentor Classic, Third Printing, 1964. Paperback in Good Condition. The wanton world of Nero's Rome caught by the satiric genius of its most cultured cynic, newly translated with an introduction by the brilliant classical scholar William Arrowsmith. A classic of comedy. a superbly funny picture of Nero's Rome as seen through the eyes of Petronius. 192 pp, 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" Tall, 1964, Mentor Classic/The New American Library Publisher, NY.

Leather Bound. Condition: Good. Limited Edition. Published exclusively for subscribers to The Franklin Library collection The 100 Greatest Books of All Time. Light shelf wear to dark blue leather binding with small bumps, a tiny chip to rear panel edge. Faint scratches to gilt edges, some patches of flaking to top edge. Text and images unmarked. 235pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Book has only the very very lightest wear. Slipcase has only very light wear. Very nice clean square copy.

Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. An excellent, second-hand copy with some mild edge-wear. Professionally applield adhesive plastic protective covering to boards. Owner's name on ffep. Text clean and bright. Binding tight. [ Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine 2. Near Fine 3. Very Good 4. Good 5. Fair ] Size: 12mo. Book.

Flex Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Modern Library Edition. Blown cloth covered flex cover with gold colored print on spine and gold colored Modern Library logo on front cover. Foreedge of cover and pages through 67 have water staining. Full foredge at front decreasing to edge spot on higher pages. . Some rub wear at tips and spine ends. Bottom edge of spine is slightly frayed. Brown head edge tint. Pages are unmarked. 238 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. 5.36 X 0.5 X 7.93 inches; 192 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reissue. 1931-39 printing of Toledano 156.1, binding 7, orange Rockwell Kent endpapers. Lacks jacket. Spine toned, hinges weakening, ink name and date on half-title page. xxii, 238, [4] pp. Translated into English by William Burnaby, introduction by C.K. Scott-Moncrieff. The Satyricon, Satyricon liber (The Book of Satyrlike Adventures), or Satyrica, is a Latin work of fiction believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius in the late 1st century AD, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as Titus Petronius. The Satyricon is an example of Menippean satire, which is different from the formal verse satire of Juvenal or Horace. The work contains a mixture of prose and verse (commonly known as prosimetrum); serious and comic elements; and erotic and decadent passages. As with The Golden Ass by Apuleius (also called the Metamorphoses), classical scholars often describe it as a Roman novel, without necessarily implying continuity with the modern literary form. The surviving sections of the original (much longer) text detail the bizarre exploits of the narrator, Encolpius, and his (possible) slave and catamite Giton, a handsome sixteen-year-old boy. It is the second most fully preserved Roman novel, after the fully extant The Golden Ass by Apuleius, which has significant differences in style and plot. Satyricon is also regarded as useful evidence for the reconstruction of how lower classes lived during the early Roman Empire.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Xxiv, 218 Pp. Orange Cloth Printed In Black. First Printing, A Scholarly Edition, Dedicated To Saul Bellow. Book Is Fine, No Damage; Dj Priced $3.95, Faint Rubbing, No Browning But Spine Very Slightly Faded.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good hard cover edition with very good dust jacket. 1st Edition. Clean. Tight binding. No markings. 218 pages.

Condition: New.