Abelard, Peter

The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1903. Hardcover. Brown board covers with gilt lettering. 115 pages. Translated from the original Latin and now reprinted from the edition of 1722, together with a brief account of their lives and work ; designed by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. VG/G+, covers have nornal wear, corners bumped. Pages are clean and tight. An excellent copy.

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Book number: 184589

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old, Love-Letters. ; Love-Letters ; ;

Aiken, Conrad

Among the Lost People

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards, gilt spine lettering; 4 preliminary leaves, 292 pages. Contents: O how she laughed!--Mr. Arcularis.--Bow down, Isaac!--The night before prohibition.--Impulse.--Silent snow, secret snow.--The fish supper.--No, no, go not to Lethe.--Pure as the driven snow.--The bachelor supper.--Gehenna.--Thistledown. Good+ (light shelfwear to boards, aging to text block and pages, binding is secure and pages are otherwise clear, inscribed and dated by author to previous owner on ffep from 1934) .

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Book number: 189727

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; Fiction ; ;

Albrecht, Michael Von

Roman Epic: An Interpretive Introduction

Leiden/ Boston, Brill, 1999. Hardcover. Light blue boards with gilt lettering; dark blue dj, mylar cover; x, 371 pp. This book discusses some works of these poets: Livius Andronicus, Naevius, Ennius, Virgil, Ovid, Albinovanus Pedo, Cornelius Severus, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius, Silius Italicus, Claudian, and Corippus. Contents include: I. Introduction: Intertextuality and Rhetoric. Roman Epic Poets and Their Readers -- II. Livius Andronicus: Inuentio. The Rediscovery of the Odyssey and the Invention of a Poetic Language -- III. Naevius: Dispositio. The Clash of Myth and History -- IV. Ennius: Elocutio. A Horse Simile or A Clash of Two Cultures. A Hellenistic Poet in an Archaic Society -- V. Virgil -- 1. Prooemium. The Poet and His Reader. The Iliad and the Odyssey as Subtexts to the Proem of the Aeneid -- 2. Narratio. Aeneas' Account of his Flight -- 3. Inuentio I. Virgil's View of History in the Catalogue of Heroes (Aen. 6. 679-899) -- 4. Inuentio II. Turnus, a Tragic Hero? Virgil and Aristotle -- 5. Dispositio. Double Inversion and the Rhetoric of Silence -- 6. Elocutio I. Virgil's Similes and the Genesis of the Aeneid -- 7. Elocutio II. On the Use of Tenses in the Aeneid -- VI. Ovid -- 1. Inuentio. Ovid and His Readers -- 2. Prooemium. Ovid's Arachne and Human Creativity -- 3. Elocutio. Similes in Ovid's Metamorphoses and Their Functions -- 4. Clash of Genres. Gods and Religion in Ovid's Metamorphoses with Special Regard to Venus and Elegy -- 5. Clash of Systems of Values. The Daughters of Anius -- VII. Albinovanus Pedo: Elocutio and Defamiliarization. The Thrill of a First Experience -- VIII. Cornelius Severus: Death and Poetic Survival of Oratory -- IX. Lucan: The Revival of Epic through Science and Rhetoric -- X. Valerius Flaccus: Elocutio. The Myth of Io or the Magic of the Present Participle -- XI. Statius: The Futility of Rhetoric. Achilles under the Spell of Beauty (Achilleid 1. 242-396) -- XII. Silius Italicus -- 1. Intertextuality as Guiding Principle of Invention -- 2. From Elegy to Epic. Claudia Quinta: Beauty under False Suspicion -- XIII. Claudian: Poetic Rhetoric and Intertextuality. Proserpina's Tapestry -- XIV. Corippus: Transformation of Epic Imagery. VG/VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.) .

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Book number: 186168

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; Epic Poetry ; ;

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Death of Oenone. Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems

New York and London, Macmillan And Co, 1892. Hardcover. Forest green boards with gilt spine lettering. vi, 113 pp. Contents: June Bracken and Heather, To the Master of Balliol, The Death of Oenone, St. Telemachus, Akbar's Dream, The Bandit's Death, The Church-Warden and the Curate, Charity, Kapiolani, The Dawn, The Making of Man, The Dreamer, Mechanophilus, Riflemen Form!, The Tourney, The Bee and the Flower, The Wanderer, Poets and Critics, A Voice Spake Out of the Skies, Doubt and Prayer, Faith, The Silent Voices, God and the Universe, The Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avon-Dale. VG .

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Book number: 175769

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old, Alfred Lord Tennyson ; Alfred Lord Tennyson ; ;

Alighieri, Dante; Paul Pochhammer

Dante's Divine Comedy; in German Punch Free

Leipzig, BG Teubner, 1913. Hardcover. German language text. Off white leather boards with gilt lettering and design elements. xcvi, 462 pages frontispiece (portrait) illustrations, 2 folded plates. Edit by Paul Pochhammer, with a Dante picture after Giotto, by E. Burnand, book decorations by H. Vogeler-Worpswede and ten sketches. Very Good, Cover has general wear, discoloration, some damage along cover hinge. Front end page partially loose from binding, Internal pages have minor age toning.

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Book number: 189909

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old, Dante ; Dante ; ;

Alighieri, Dante

La Divina Commedia

Milan, Italy, Carlo Sironi, 1921. unbound. pgs 9-1104 w/ bw tissue-guard plates. A rebinding and reading copy only. Opening pages missing; textblock begins at page nine, Canto I, line 85. A very rough copy of Carlo Sironi's renowned edition. Approximately 19lbs for shipping. Fair- (boards missing. sewn & paper spine binding material remains intact, though paper is peeling; numerous splits to textblock; textblock is holding. pgs 1089 through 1104 detached from textblock, yet remain intact as their own packet. pgs remain fairly bright w/ instances of smudges, marks & occasional foxing.) .

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Book number: 192083

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old, la Divina Commedia, the Divine Comedy, Carlo Sironi ; the Divine Comedy ; ;

Alighieri, Dante and Sandro Botticelli

La Divina Commedia Di Dante Alighieri Coi Disegni Di Sandro Botticelli: Cantica Terza

Berlin, Germany, Ex Officina Serpentis, 1925. Hardcover. grey boards w/ black printing. approx 76 unpaginated pgs w/ red, tissue-guard frontispiece & 30 bw woodcuts, many red typographic. Text in Italian. Many unopened pages. Parchment pages remain fairly bright with some darkening to fore-edges and instances of speckled foxing. "Dante's Divina commedia was completed in the years 1921 to 1925 as a hand press print of the Officina Serpentis in 265 copies. The text was revised according to the latest Dante research by Professor Carl Weber Halle. The hand drawings by Sandro Botticelli were photographically transferred to wood from the surviving leaves of the Codex Hamilton .. photographically transferred to wood."--WorldCat. Good- (boards scuffed, scratched, foxed & darkened; spine missing w/ tattered edges. textblock/spine split; three binding joints holding boards/textblock.) .

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Book number: 192802

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old, Divine Comedy, Sandro Botticelli ; Alighieri, Dante ; ;

Andersen, Hans Christian

Fairy Tales

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1907. Hardcover. Black full leather binding on flexible boards. 5 compartments, gilt lettering and border on spine. 403 pp. A collection of fairy tales gathered by Danish folklorist Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875). G+, case chipped and worn, previous owner's inscription, interior clean .

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Book number: 178721

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old, Children's Books, Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen ; Fairy Tales ; ; Children's Books

Anderson, Sherwood and Georg Theo Hartmann

Dark Laughter

New York, Boni & Liveright, 1925. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with yellow lettering on front and spine; black and yellow illustrated end papers; 319 pp. A Good Books circular from Fall 1925 is laid-in. Novel about the new sexual freedom of the 1920s. VG- (light shelfwear to boards, pages lightly age toned but very clean and clear, small tear to top corner of ffep) .

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Book number: 189760

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; American Fiction ; ;

Anonymous

Posterity: Its Verdicts and Its Methods, or, Democracy A.D. 2100

London, Williams and Norgate, 1897. Hardcover. Navy cover with gilt borders and spine lettering. 171 pp. An imagining of a capitalist fantasyland framed as a discussion between a man of the late 19th century and one living in the 22nd. A crude sketch of classical liberalism as well as its proponents' criticisms of socialism at this stage in history. A look into the ideology that helped popularize various other ideas that were in vogue at the time, such as eugenics and imperialism. VG+, minimal shelfwear .

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Book number: 178421

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Capitalism ; Science Fiction ; ;

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Zone

Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1972. Hardcover. Black boards with white spine, gilt spine lettering; black and white dust jacket; 23 pp. Text in French with English translation on facing page. English translation by Samuel Beckett. VG/Fair (boards and pages are very clean and clear. Dust jacket has heavy wear with curling, tears and large pieces missing) .

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Book number: 180881

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; Poetry ; ;

Ariosto, Ludovico and Alfons Kissner (Translator)

Kleinere Werke; Komodien, Lyrische, Gedichte (Rime), Satiren

Munich, Georg Muller, 1909. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Vellum boards with 4 raised bands on spine, metal clasp on cover and decorative endpapers. XII, LIII, 660 pp. Mounted BW illustrations. Text in German. VG- light soiling and wear to boards. interior clean and tight.

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Book number: 173443

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old, Ariosto Ludovico ; Ariosto, Ludovico ; ;

Aristophanes and Alan H. Sommerstein

Birds

Wiltshire, England, Aris & Phillips Ltd, 1987. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; white dj with black lettering, orange illustration; xv, 311 pp. A comedy by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed in 414 BC at the City Dionysia where it won second place. It has been acclaimed by modern critics as a perfectly realized fantasy remarkable for its mimicry of birds and for the gaiety of its songs. Includes bibliographical references (pages viii-xv). VG/VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.) .

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Book number: 185663

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; Drama; Greek Comedies ; ;

Ashford, Faith

Things Unseen; a Book of Verse

Ditchling, Sussex, S. Dominic's Press, 1924. Softcover. Tan wraps with black lettering; 2 preliminary leaves; 28 untrimmed pages. 20th century, English religious poetry. Good (overall chipping and wear to wraps, pages are clean and clear.) .

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Book number: 186501

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; English Poetry; Religious Poetry ; ;

Balzac, Honore de and Paul Avril

Le Peche Veniel

Paris, Charles Bosse, 1901. Hardcover. 3/4 brown leather and blue marble boards; marble decorative end pages; bw frontispiece by Edouard Leon with tissue guard; 67 pp; bw illustrations with tissue guards throughout. Text is in French. 400 copies total printed, this being number 293. This style is 1 of 200 copies on Arches Vellum. Compositions by Paul Avril. Engraved with etchings by Edouard Leon and Raoul Serres. VG- (weak and worn binding, front page is loose, pages have age toning as expected with age but are otherwise clean and clear.) .

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Book number: 181022

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; Literature ; ;