Theocritus, Signed (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed and inscribed by Judith Haber (as Judy) on the title page. Text is unmarked; pages are bright. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket shows some wear and the dust jacket spine is a little faded. 218pp. Inscribed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Critical introduction by David Moore Robinson. Limited edition: this copy is number 214 of 500 copies. SIGNED by the translator. Unopened pages. Very good in tan and green cloth with gilt lettering and design. No dust jacket. ; 338 pages B002E61QSI.

First edition, in original cloth . Worn spine and split at hinge with front cover detached. Internally VG. Initialled gift inscription from the author 'J.H.H.' to 'E.M.M.' at fep.

Reprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. pp. 1-15. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With author's dedication to Jeff [Henderson]. - A very good and clean copy. - From the text: One of the many important advances in Pindaric criticism in the last twenty-five years has been the growing appreciation of his peculiar use of first-person future verbs of singing, praising, or testifying, which all seem to refer to the present activity of performing the ode in which they appear.1 Thus, for example, when Pindar says nyn . . . keladisómetha (OI. 10.78-79), nyn . . . keladíso (OI. 11.11-14) or égó . épaskíso (Nem. 9.9-10), he is not promising to sing another poem at some future time, but rather he is talking about the poem he is in the process of performing. In recent years scholars have noted that this peculiar use of the future is not, in fact, limited to the epinician genre, but occurs regularly in parthéneia, paeans, other literary and cult hymns, and in choral passages of Attic tragedy that mimic or evoke special ritual songs like the thrinos, or the paean. - Wikipedia: Christopher A. Faraone (* 1955) ist ein US-amerikanischer Gräzist. Faraone wurde 1988 an der Universität Stanford zum Ph.D. promoviert und gehört seit 1991 der Fakultät der University of Chicago an, wo er als Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities und Professor of classical languages and literature tätig ist. Seine Schwerpunkte sind die archaische und hellenistische griechische Dichtung, die antike Magie und die griechische Religion sowie die orientalischen Einflüsse auf die griechische Kultur. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Reprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. p. 1-20. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With dedication by the author to H. Temporini. - Binding light-margined, 2 staple holes top right, otherwise very good and clean. - From the text: Virgils fourth pastoral and the Idyll of Theocritus that is usually printed fourth have sixty-three lines each. The product of nine and seven figures also in the first Idyll, which is formed in sections of sixty-three lines plus sixty-three lines and nineteen of refrain plus seven lines : 63 + 63(19) + 7. In the second pastoral of Virgil, the passionate singer, Corydon, has sixty-three lines, enclosed within two five-line sections that establish the context of nature and of ordinary, productive work from which love tends to detach the singer: 5 + 63 + 5. The name of Corydon is a direct, obvious link between the fourth Idyll and the second pastoral. Other relations between the first and fourth Idylls and the second and fourth pastorals would be the matter for a longer discourse. Number is more perplexing than revealing to the average reader of ancient poetry, who admits its function grudgingly in Dante and Villon, where the thirty-three of the years of the life of Christ assumes undeniable importance, but would not have it that the ancient poets could be so calculating. The present essay then will limit itself to a brief account of the relation between theme and number in two ancient poems. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Condition: Gut. pp. (129)-148/(1)-20. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With dedication of the author. - Author's name underlined on cover, binding a bit rubbed, lightly light-margined, lightly dog-eared, otherwise good and clean. - From the text: Virgils fourth pastoral and the Idyll of Theocritus that is usually printed fourth have sixty-three lines each. The product of nine and seven figures also in the first Idyll, which is formed in sections of sixty-three lines plus sixty-three lines and nineteen of refrain plus seven lines : 63 + 63(19) + 7. In the second pastoral of Virgil, the passionate singer, Corydon, has sixty-three lines, enclosed within two five-line sections that establish the context of nature and of ordinary, productive work from which love tends to detach the singer: 5 + 63 + 5. The name of Corydon is a direct, obvious link between the fourth Idyll and the second pastoral. Other relations between the first and fourth Idylls and the second and fourth pastorals would be the matter for a longer discourse. Number is more perplexing than revealing to the average reader of ancient poetry, who admits its function grudgingly in Dante and Villon, where the thirty-three of the years of the life of Christ assumes undeniable importance, but would not have it that the ancient poets could be so calculating. The present essay then will limit itself to a brief account of the relation between theme and number in two ancient poems. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Reprint, stapled in cardboard cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. Limited/Numbered Edition#482/500 copies; Signed twice by Miller; octavo; 338 pp (including bibliography with frontispiece); no dustjacket; Very Good green cloth boards with gilt stamped beige cloth spine; slightly sunned and soiled; else clean tight copyHardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Translated with introductions by Anna Rist. (illustrator). First Edition. "The recent surge of interest in ancient pastoral poetry has prompted this first modern English translation of the Idylls of Theocritus, founder of the pastoral genre. Rist's translation captures fully the dignity of Theocritus' hexameters, and her individual prefaces to the Idylls contribute to modern interpretation and are perceptive regarding character analysis, comparisons with other poets" Clean crisp copy with autographed note by the editor- in Latin- on ffep. 264p. bibliography, index. DJ has a tiny tear and a slight stain on the front., else fine. Signed by Translator. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Center for Hellenic Studies, D.C., & Harvard University Press, Cambridge. First edition. First printing. A near-fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A copy with clean text and price ($5.00) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Previous owner's neat stamp on front endpaper and lower edge of an otherwise fine copy. Jacket has fading at spine and a couple short closed tears (see front flap joint and rear panel), as pictured. This copy has been SIGNED by Lawall on the title page: "With many thanks and best wishes, Gil." (as pictured). F1800A. Signed by Author(s).

Third Edition. Signed by the author. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xvi,161p. ; 22cm. Subjects: Greek poetry ; Translations into English. 3 Kg.

Ruari McLean Copy.* Quarter buckram gilt, illustrated boards, and with dws printed with text & illustration. Slim folio, c.pp60 uncut, endpapers darkened as always, some wear to edge of lower board at two places. With numerous woodcut illustrations & decorations by Vivien Gribble. 350 copies on hmp: numbered & signed by Gribble. Designed by Stanley Morison who finally chose the unusual Cloister Old Style types after some seven trial settings. Vivien Gribble's first book illustrations. Very attractive and rather uncommon book. This copy with the neat typographical bookplate of Ruari McLean , typographer and historian of book design. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.

Third Edition. Signed by the author. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xvi,161p. ; 22cm. Subjects: Greek poetry ; Translations into English. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). SIGNED, PRESENTATION COPY. Rendered Into English prose with an Introductory Essay by A. Lang, M.S. Lately Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. 12mo, original pictorial cloth. Not the first edition but the second edition under this title. A volume in Macmillan's "Golden Treasury Series". Presentation copy, inscribed by Lang on the verso of the front free endpaper: "Lady Napier with the translator's compliments." Covers lightly marked and worn, but in good condition. With a slip containing a copy of the inscription tipped to the front pastedown. Bookplate of Maurice Baring. Portions of this work were published in a rare privately printed pamphlet of 1879 with the title, Specimens of a Translation of Theocritus; the first edition under this title appeared in 1880. See Roger Lancelyn Green, Andrew Lang: A Critical Biography, p. 241 and NCBEL III, 1441. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Small 4to. English text (translation by R.C. Trevelyan). Original stiff tan wrappers stamped in blue. Very good. 160 pages. "Study score." Signed and inscribed on title page by Sessions to noted American music executive and radio broadcaster Carl Haverlin: To Carl, most cordially, from Roger, New York, Sept. 1957. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. Inscribed by the author on title-page, 'D.M. Main Esq', with the writer's kind regards. Aug. 1885.' Spine a trifle bumped, but a very nice copy. In 1877, while still an undergraduate at Oxford, but already a keen exponent of 'muscular christianity', Lefroy had inveighed against two of the candidates for the Oxford professorship of poetry, Walter Pater and J.A. Symonds, for what he regarded as their encouragement to 'the worst passions and most carnal inclinations of humanity'. It was only after Lefroy died in 1891, aged thirty-six, that Symonds encountered his distinctly 'Uranian' poetry and recognized its author's 'sympathy with youthful strength and beauty, his keen interest in boyish games and the athletic sports of young men'. The recipient above, David M. Main, was the editor of 'The Treasury of English Sonnets', published in 1880, and 'Three Hundred English Sonnets', in 1884. Books inscribed by Lefroy, who died at the age of thirty-six, are very scarce.