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PLATO translated by R. Hackforth.

Plato’s Philebus.
$25.00
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. First edition. 143 pp. Hole punched through the last blank leaf, else near fine in very good plus, double-clipped dust jacket. Translated by Hackforth with his introduction and commentary.
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PLAUTUS.

Menaechmi.
$22.50
Wauconda: Bolchazy-Carducci (1981). Second trade paperback edition. 200 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Edited with introduction and running vocabularies by Gilbert Lawall and Betty Nye Quinn.
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PLAUTUS.

The Comedies IV.
$20.00
Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press (1995). First edition. xi + 377 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket.
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PLAUTUS.

The Comedies Volume III.
$20.00
Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press (1995). First edition. xi + 400 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket.
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PRAWER, Joshua.

The History of the Jews in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.
$25.00
Oxford: Oxford University Press/Sandpiper (1996). First Sandpiper edition. xv + 310 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
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PROPERTUS.

Elegies II.
$25.00
Bristol: Bristol Classical Press (1997). Later trade paperback printing. x + 244 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Edited, with introduction and notes by W.A. Camps.
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PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO.

The Art of Love.
$20.00
London: Folio Society, 1993. First edition. Small 4to. 96 pp. Fine in full cloth with inset cover illustration. Fine publisher’s slipcase. English translation by James Michie. Illustrated by Grahame Baker.
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RAMAGE, E.S. with D.L. Sigsbee and S.C, Fredericks.

Roman Satirists and Their Satire: The Fine Art of Criticism in Ancient Rome.
$20.00
Ridge Park: Noyes Press (1974). First edition. 212 pp w/index. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with sunned spine and light overall edgewear and rubbing.
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RAWLINGS, G.B.

Ancient Medieval Modern Coins and How to Know Them.
$30.00
Chicago: Ammon Press (1966). First edition. xix + 360 pp w/index. Light discoloration to first leaf, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket.
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REARDON, B.P.

The Form of Greek Romance.
$30.00
Princeton: Princeton University Press (1991). First edition. xii + 194 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with lightly sunned spine.
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ROBERTSON, D.S.

A Handbook of Greek & Roman Architecture.
$35.00
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954. First edition. xxvi + 407 pp. Foxing along top edge, else near fine in very good only dust jacket with chipping along bottom edge, crown of spine, and a few stains to lower portion of front panel.
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ROOM, Adrian.

Room’s Classical Dictionary: The Origins of the Names of Characters in Classical Mythology.
$20.00
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1983). First edition. 343 pp w/appendixes & bibliography. Corners lightly tapped, else near fine in near fine dust jacket.
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ROSENBAUM, Julius.

The Plague of Lust.
$50.00
(np): Frederick Publications (1955). First printing of this reissue (originally published in 1901). 325 pp w/bibliography & index. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a chip to top edge of rear cover, and two short edge tears.
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SANDBACH, F.H.

The Comic Theatre of Greece and Rome.
$20.00
London: Chatto & Windus, 1985. First trade paperback printing. 168 pp w/index. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
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SANSONE, David.

Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport.
$25.00
Berkeley: University of California (1988). First edition. xv +136 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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SAPPHO translated by Richard O’Connell.

Sappho.
$65.00
Philadelphia: Atlantis Editions, 1975. First edition. [32 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 150 numbered copies. INSCRIBED by O’Connell on the front free endpaper, “To Edwin Honig / with regards, / Dick O’Connell.”
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SAPPHO.

Fragmenta Nova.
$350.00
Berkeley & Brookston: Arif Press/Officina Chartaria Twinrocker 1981. First edition. Folio. [18 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Hand-colored frontis by Cheryl Miller. One of 100 copies. Text entirely in Greek and Latin. Note on the text by Guy Davenport accompanies, as part of the original 8 pp prospectus. Six newly identified fragments to be added to the 1955 Oxford University Press edition.
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SARIANIDI, Victor.

The Golden Hoard of Bactria.
$75.00
NY & Leningrad: Abrams/Aurora Art Publishers (1985). First US edition. Folio. 258 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine publisher’s cardstock slipcase. Four hundred and twenty illustrations, including 166 plates in full color.
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SCHAUMANN, Herbert.

Odysseus and Calypso.
$35.00
Orange: Omnibus Studio Enterprises (1956). First edition. 4to. [34 pp]. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Edith Hamilton, illustrations by Richard Hall.
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SCHLESINGER, Alfred Cary.

Boundaries of Dionysus: Athenian Foundations for the Theory of Tragedy.
$25.00
Cambridge: Oberlin College/Harvard University Press, 1963. First edition. 145 pp w/index. Fine in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket with toned spine and one short tear.
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SCHULTZ, Ellen. ed.

Greek Art of the Aegean Islands.
$50.00
NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art (1979). First edition. Small 4to. 238 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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SEGAL, Charles.

Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides’ BACCHAE. Expanded Edition.
$35.00
Princeton: Princeton University Press (1982). First trade paperback printing. xiv + 364 pp w/index. Some light foxing along top edge, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
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SEGAL, Erich.

Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus.
$25.00
Cambridge: Harvard University Press (1960). Second printing. 229 pp w/index. Gift inscription to the front free endpaper, else very good plus in very good, price-clipped dust jacket that is rubbed and edgeworn.
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SENECA.

De Otio De Brevitate Vitae.
$25.00
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2003). Trade paperback printing. xiii + 271 pp. Fine in glossy printed wrappers. Edited by G.D. Williams.
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SIMPSON, Grace.

Britons and the Roman Army: A Study of Wales and the Southern Pennines in the 1st-3rd Centuries.
$25.00
London: Gregg Press, 1964. First edition. 190 pp w/index. Fine in full cloth, lacking dust jacket.
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SMITH, William.

Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology and Geography Illustrated by Antiquities and Coinage.
$75.00
London: B.A. Seaby (1972). First printing of this edition, a reprinting of the 1873 thirteenth edition. viii + 832 pp. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with lightly sunned spine.
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SMITH, William.

Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology and Geography.
$125.00
London: B.A. Seaby (1972). Later printing of the 1873 thirteenth edition. viii + 832 pp. Near fine in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket with sunning to spine.
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SOPHOCLES.

Selected Poems: Odes and Fragments.
$12.50
Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press (2008). Advance reading copy. 127 pp w/index of first lines. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
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SOREN, David. ed.

The Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates at Kourion, Cyprus.
$25.00
Tucson: University of Arizona Press (1987). First edition. xi +340 pp w/index. Hard erasure to front free endpaper, else near fine in full cloth. No dust jacket.
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SOUTER, Alexander. ed.

A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.
$35.00
Oxford: Oxford University Press/Sandpiper (1996). First Sandpiper edition. xxxii + 454 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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SPIVEY, Nigel.

Songs on Bronze: The Greek Myths Made Real.
$15.00
NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (2005). First edition. 255 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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SPRENGER, Maja and Gilda Bartoloni.

The Etruscans: Their History, Art, and Architecture.
$55.00
NY: Abrams (1983). First US edition. 4to. 176 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated by Robert Erich Wolf. Illustrated with photographs by Max and Albert Hirmer.
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