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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. "Rhetoric thoroughly infused the world and literature of Greco-Roman antiquity. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of rhetorical theory and practice in that world, from Homer to early Christianity, accessible to students and non-specialists, whether within classics or from other periods or disciplines." The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric. Edited by Erik Gunderson. With contributions by Nancy Worman, Robert Wardy, Malcolm Heath, Catherine Steel, James Porter, Joy Connolly, Jon Hesk, Victoria Wohl, John Dugan, David Rosenbloom, William Batsone, Simon Goldhill, Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele, Peter Mack, John Henderson, and Erik Gunderson. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic and author. His signature to first page, and includes some minor annotations by him in pencil. Please see our other listings for related works.  Published by Cambridge University Press. First edition, 2009. A near fine paperback with laminated covers. Very little sign of wear except from slight usage marks to edge of text block and William St Clair's pencil annotations. Soundly bound. The text is bright and clean throughout. Text in English. x + 358pp. Dimensions: Approximately 229mm high x 153mm wide x 21mm. Weight approximately 536g.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 492, 130pp. Red cloth, gilt spine. Small chip at the foredge margin of one leaf, foxing on endpapers, hinges cracked, spotting on boards, about very good. Includes: "Scientific Boxing Under Boston A.A. Rules," "A Review of the Football Season," "Yumi: The Japanese Long-Bow," "The New Jersey National Guard," "The Militia and National Guard of Ohio," "Shooting in Japan," "In Search of Paradise with Camera and Palette." Also included are works of fiction, poetry, and several articles about yachting, winter pastimes, travel, shooting, archery, lacrosse, hunting, fishing, and more.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Illustrated from black and white photographs, engravings by J.O. Davidson, Hy. S. Watson, Beard, and more. Quarto. Three quarter leather with marbled papercovered boards. March 1892 dampstained and water wrinkled, small piece of clear tape on front fly on topedge, boards are detached but are held in place with black tape all along the spine, thus good only. Containing multiple issues and they are October 1890 No. 1 (pages 3-80); November 1890 No. 2 (pages 83-160); May 1891 No. 2 (pages 83-172); September 1891 No. 6 (pages 434-506); October 1891 No. 1 (pages 3-88); March 1892 No. 6 (pages bound out of order 451-470,427-450, then 473-504 ), followed by supplemental advertisements xvii-xxi and then page 96 titled "Cycling For Women" by Grace E. Denison. The magazine published a range of fiction and nonfiction related to the sporting life, covering many popular activities of the day such as hunting, fishing, equestrian, and boating, as well as emerging sports such as ice hockey, football, and aeronautics, often with accompanying photographs and illustrations. Some of the contents in these volumes are "Rancho Del Muerto" by Charles King, Capt. U.S. Army; "My Winter Game Bag In Florida" W.E. Andrews"; "Wrestling" by E. Hitchcock, Jr. "The National Guard Of Minnesota" by Lieut. Edwin F. Glenn; "Sniping on the South Side of Long Island" by R.I. Brasher; "Turtling In Florida" by J. M. Murphy; "My Wheel" (poem) by Frederic Bierhoff; "Harry's Career At Yale" by John Seymour Wood; "The Meet Of the Wheelmen In 1890" by Chris. Wheeler; "On The Harlem, Up To Pawling And Beyond" by Ernest Ingersoll; "Saddle & Sentiment" by Wenona Gilman; A Study in Black" by Clarence B. Moore, "Recent Football At Harvard" by A. Longdrop; "A Marauding Leopard" by F. Fitz Roy Dixon; "Cycling in Mid-Pacific" by Chas. E. Trevathan, and many more.