P. TERENTII [TERENCE] [PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER]

Comoediae Sex, Cum Interpretatione Donati E/T Calphurnii, Et Commentario Perpetuo Curavit Arn. Henr. Westerhovius

The Hague, Holland, Isaacum Vander Kloot, 1732. Hardcover. pp. 1322, 46. Very thick 8vo. Title page printed in red and black with vignette. This volume is bound in contemporary mottled calf with gilt decorated spine and boards. Rear hinge is weak but still intact. Front hinge cracked: now close to detaching from text block. Overall, the binding is scuffed and rubbed. Marbled endpapers with old armorial bookplate on front pastedown, the bookplate being that of the Rev. Jasper Hume Nicolls (1818-1877) who, in 1845, was appointed the first Principal of Bishop's College (now Bishop's University) in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Contents clean, with slight age-darkening and a few early marginal notations. It would be a simple matter for a competent bookbinder to strengthen the joints and repair the hinges, while retaining the original binding. Terence (died 159 BC?) was a Roman writer of comedy. He wrote six plays during his short life: 'Andria', 'Hecyra', 'Heauton timorumenos', Eunuchus', 'Phormio' (from which the expression 'fortis fortuna adiuvat' is derived ['fortune favours the brave']), and 'Adelphoe'. They were widely known and studied in the Middle Ages, and much read in England in the sixteenth century. Terence's influence can be traced in early English comedy and again in the comedy of manners of the Restoration (Oxford Companion to Classical Literature). Ill.: copper plate frontispiece.

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Keywords: Comedies;Plays;Drama;Rome;Romans;Classics;Latin;; copper plate frontispiece

Ahmad, Aamina

The Return of Faraz Ali

New York, Riverhead Books, 2022. Hardcover. pp. 339. 8vo. Lightest shelfwear; near fine in near fine dustjacket. .

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AINSWORTH, W. Harrison

Jack Sheppard; a Romance

Paris, France, Baudry's European Library, 1840. Hardcover. pp. 382. 8vo. Modern cloth re-bind. Contents slightly darkened, there is some spotting to the text: very good. 'J. C. Allsopp 1848' in ink across top of title page. First published in book form in England in 1839, this is one of several editions published in Paris the following year (this copy printed in English). It is probably pirated, and lacks the Cruikshank illustrations. .

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Akhtar, Ayad

Homeland Elegies

New York, Back Bay Books, 2021. Paperback. pp. xxii, 346. 8vo. Lightest shelfwear, bumping to bottom edge of textblock; very good-. .

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Akkad, Omar El

American War

New York, McClelland and Stewart, 2018. Paperback. pp. 413. 8vo. Light shelfwear and soiling; good+. .

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El Akkad, Omar

What Strange Paradise

New York, McClelland and Stewart, 2022. Paperback. pp. 235. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good+. .

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Alarcon, Pedro Antonio De

The Three-Cornered Hat

London, Hesperus Press, 2004. Paperback. pp. 100. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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Alcott, Louisa May

Hospital Sketches from the CIVIL War

London, Arcturus Publishing, 2020. Paperback. pp. 112. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good+. .

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Alenyikov, Michael

Ivan and Misha; Stories

Evanston, Illinois, TriQuarterly Books / Northwestern University Press, 2010. Paperback. 8vo. Light shelfwear, one page dog-eared; very good. .

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Book number: 057173

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Alexis, Andre

Despair; and Other Stories of Ottawa

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1998. Paperback. pp. 229. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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Book number: 087475

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Ali, Ayaan Hirsi

The Caged Virgin; an Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam

New York, Free Press, 2006. Hardcover. pp. 187. 8vo. Light shelfwear, marker dot to bottom page edge; very good+ in very good dustjacket. .

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Ali, Monica

In the Kitchen: A Novel

New York, Scribner, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. .

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Ali, Tariq

Night of the Golden Butterfly

London, Verso Books, 2010. Hardcover. pp. 275. 8vo. Light shelfwear, bookplate to ffep; very good+ in very good dustjacket. .

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Book number: 094111

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Allison, Dorothy

Trash

New York, Penguin Books, 2018. Paperback. pp. xvi, 219. 8vo. Light shelfwear, some creasing; very good+. Including a new introduction, and two stories "Stubborn Girls and Mean Stories", and "Compassion.

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Book number: 093280

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Ambler, Eric

Journey Into Fear

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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