Xerxes, First Edition (45 results)

1st edition. Poems that lay bare the soul of an introspective modern man. Bright tight clean unread copy, with unopened CD of the author reading his poems. 6 x 9, 128 pp, audio CD in unopened rear envelope. VG+ unmarked, bottom of one page clipped but no words cut. Trade paperback in sepia-photo wraps.

Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Fall of Xerxes: A Novel of King Leonidas of Sparta.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Signed by author on half-title page. Book is square and binding is tight. Contents are generally clean throughout except for the last few pages which have some waves from damp. Boards are covered with vinyl polyester laminate for protective purposes. Former library book with usual library stamps, labels and markings. (Please note any images provided in our listings are stock photos supplied by AbeBooks and do not match the cover of the actual item.). Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by author on half-title page. Book is square and binding is tight. Contents are clean throughout. Although a library item, it was only circulated once. Former library book with usual library stamps, labels and markings. (Please note any images provided in our listings are stock photos supplied by AbeBooks and do not match the cover of the actual item.). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ex-library copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Used Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Used Like New. 1st. Black cloth to boards with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket has minor scuffs. 1st edition with full number line. 8vo. (9.4 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W photo plates and illustrations. Includes a list of illustrations, appendices [3], abbreviations, notes, bibliography and an index. 288 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The first full-scale account of a Persian king vilified by history Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at Thermopylae is a byword for courage, while the failure of Xerxes' expedition has overshadowed all the other achievements of his twenty-two-year reign. In this lively and comprehensive new biography, Richard Stoneman shows how Xerxes, despite sympathetic treatment by the contemporary Greek writers Aeschylus and Herodotus, had his reputation destroyed by later Greek writers and by the propaganda of Alexander the Great. Stoneman draws on the latest research in Achaemenid studies and archaeology to present the ruler from the Persian perspective. This illuminating volume does not whitewash Xerxes' failings but sets against them such triumphs as the architectural splendor of Persepolis and a consideration of Xerxes' religious commitments. What emerges is a nuanced portrait of a man who ruled a vast and multicultural empire which the Greek communities of the West saw as the antithesis of their own values.

Ohlwd. 276 S. -Leicht schief gelesen, gebräunt, NaV. 360 gr.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This is the epic story of the Great Persian War of 481-479 BC, the major land and sea Persian invasion of Greece under Xerxes. Starting from the Persian decision to avenge the outrage caused to imperial prestige by the battle of Marathon, this book details the policy, diplomacy and religion as they intermingle with matters of strategy and tactics. It includes detailed coverage of the legendary Battle of Thermopylae, immortalized in literature and film as the ultimate defiant last stand. There is similarly in-depth coverage, in terms of events, tactics, methods and intentions, afforded to the relatively unknown sea battles off Cape Artemisium, only recently dramatized for the Big Screen; a naval engagement that primed the Battle of Salamis. Special attention has been paid to the events following these two battles, leading to the bloody conquest of Athens and the implementation of vengeance by the Persian Empire, which for a brief time stood triumphant, victorious and awesome as never before, but also sowed the seeds of eventual defeat. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This is the epic story of the Great Persian War of 481-479 BC, the major land and sea Persian invasion of Greece under Xerxes. Starting from the Persian decision to avenge the outrage caused to imperial prestige by the battle of Marathon, this book details the policy, diplomacy and religion as they intermingle with matters of strategy and tactics. It includes detailed coverage of the legendary Battle of Thermopylae, immortalized in literature and film as the ultimate defiant last stand. There is similarly in-depth coverage, in terms of events, tactics, methods and intentions, afforded to the relatively unknown sea battles off Cape Artemisium, only recently dramatized for the Big Screen; a naval engagement that primed the Battle of Salamis. Special attention has been paid to the events following these two battles, leading to the bloody conquest of Athens and the implementation of vengeance by the Persian Empire, which for a brief time stood triumphant, victorious and awesome as never before, but also sowed the seeds of eventual defeat. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

paperback. Condition: New. 1st.

hardcover. Condition: New. 1st.

Von der Geschichte der Lebendigen und der Toten. Springe: zu Klampen Verlag (= Essay), 1. Auflage 2006. Illustr. hellblauer OHardc. 221 Seiten. - 19 x 11,5. * Erstausgabe aus dem Vorbesitz des bekannten Wiesbadener Bildhauers Prof. Wolf Spemann mit zahlr. Bleistift-Notizen von seiner Hand auf dem hinteren Vorsatz und beiliegendem FAZ-Zeitungsartikel zu diesem Buch.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 17 x 24 cm, 248 Seiten, 322 farbige Abbildungen - Silvia Gertsch (*1963) und Xerxes Ach (*1957) setzen in ihrem Werk unterschiedliche Medien, Materialien und Bildsprachen ein. Was sie jedoch verbindet, ist die Faszination für Farbe und Licht. Gertsch verarbeitet Schnappschüsse von jungen Menschen in alltäglichen Situationen etwa beim Schlendern durch die Strassen zu komplexen Hinterglasmalereien. Ach beschäftigt sich in seinen Gemälden mit den Phänomenen, die entstehen, wenn Licht auf unterschiedliche Materialien trifft. Beide Künstler gehen in ihrer Arbeit zunächst von Fotografien aus, mit denen sie die vergänglichen Momente und flüchtigen visuellen Reize festgehalten haben.

Condition: New. The first full-scale account of a Persian king vilified by history Num Pages: 288 pages, 40 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAP; 3D; BGH; HBJF1; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 166 x 33. Weight in Grams: 696. . 2015. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Early publication by the noted translator of Homer. Out of print.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine In A Near Fine Jacket Pp 275 Index Illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 326 pp.

1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT. 2 plates; 1 large fold-out plate. The plates are toned; there is very slight toning at the edges of the paper; minor. Very good condition. Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer as well as Lucasian professor at Cambridge and Astronomer Royal. Among "his many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian" (Wikipedia). Airy's discovery of a new inequality in the motions of Venus and the earth is in some respects his most remarkable achievement. Airy's abstract for this paper: "Till the beginning of the present century, neither the mechanical theory of the moon's motion, nor the numerical determination of her principal elements, nor the lunar tables founded on these, were sufficiently accurate for the computation of a distant eclipse. And (perhaps in consequence of the evident imperfection of these essential grounds of calculation) the mode of treating chronological eclipses was, in most instances, extremely lax. The general result of these deficiencies is, that in any point of the slightest delicacy, the calculations made before 1810 are absolutely worthless. 2. The extension and general improvement of the lunar theory by Laplace, and in particular the determination of the secular equations depending on the square of the time, very greatly altered the state of lunar and chronological science. Partly by the stimulation of foreign academies, partly by individual enterprise, lunar tables were soon produced which embodied the principal results of the new theory, and which were founded on more numerous and more carefully reduced observations than had been used before. The extensive tables by Burg, printed by the Bureau des Longitudes in 1806, and the smaller tables by Oltmanns from the same elements, printed in the fourth supplementary volume of the Berliner Jahrbuch in 1808, will long be remarked as important steps in lunar calculation.".

Condition: Poor. First Edition. Xerxes een koning die zijn grenzen niet kende; hoekjes kaft gesleten; aantekeningen en onderstrepingen in pen en potlood.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very Good in black cloth with gilt titles. A firm, clean copy of the First Printing. Fiction.

Oversize hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). Full colour graphic novel. First printing with ''10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'' on copyright page. Fine copy in pictorial boards, as issued without dustjacket (as new).

First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series; Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception. Physical description; 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Subjects; Xerxes I, King of Persia (519 B.C.-465 B.C. or 464 B.C.). Greece History Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C. Historiography. Iran Kings and rulers Biography. Iran History To 640. 3 Kg.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. First Edition. From the Library of Sidney Howard, screenwriter of Gone with the Wind. Narrow streak of fading, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Theodore Nadejen (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing. Translated by Frederick H. Martens. Light shelf wear. The spine is slightly slanted and sunned. Otherwise fine: unmarked and in a sound binding with hinges intact. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Out of print. Includes a monograph on Classical themes in early printers' marks. Binding is cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. THEODORE NADEJEN (illustrator). 1st Edition.

First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series; Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception. Physical description; 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Subjects; Xerxes I, King of Persia (519 B.C.-465 B.C. or 464 B.C.). Greece History Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C. Historiography. Iran Kings and rulers Biography. Iran History To 640. 1 Kg.

Cloth. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Blue cloth with gilt titles on spine. Cloth is bright and clean. Contents tight with foxing, particularly to prelims and page edges. Previous owner's name on front e/p. Dust jacket is faded, particularly on spine. Titles are affected. There is also quite heavy foxing to cover. It has been price clipped and covered. Sound copy but with foxing.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. erstausgabe. oktav goldgepr.-illustr. orig-halbl. sehr gutes exemplar. 276 seiten, zweifarbiger titel, reich ornamentieter und illustrierter halbleinenband; ecken gering bestoßen. ea.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. 1/2 inch open tear at top of front panel.