Songs on Bronze (THE GREEK MYTHS MADE REAL)
FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, January 2005. Trade Paperback. More
FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, January 2005. Trade Paperback. More
Reeves and Turner, January 1892. Hardcover. No jacket. Cover is suuned toward the spine and spine's gilt lettering is rubbed. Former owner's bookplate on front paste down endpaper. Starting after front endpapers, but pages are clean, foxing limited to front and back endpapers. More
Oxford University Press, USA, July 1999. Trade Paperback. Apuleius's Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel--the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his..... More
Doubleday, January 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Some minor dust staining in the edges of the print block. More
Harper, 1962. Trade Paperback. More
Abu Hasan, January 1995. First Edition. Paper Back. Folio. First edition; paperback original. More
American-Scandinavian Foundation, January 1959. Cloth. In dustjacket with darkened spine & margins with chipping at corners & especially (about 1/8th inch from edges) at top & bottom of spine. Blue boards with gold lettering along spine & upon front board. There is fading at edges of boards & bruising with..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), September 1970. Trade Paperback. More
N/A, September 1990. Trade Paperback. More
Random House Inc, June 1994. Paper Back. A tale of chivalry and doomed, transcendent love, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult is one of the most resonant works of Western literature, as well as the basis for our enduring idea of romance. The story of the Cornish knight and the..... More
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Hardcover. More
Facts on File, January 1984. First Edition. Cloth. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Two very lightly bumped corners on the boards. More
Penguin Classics, July 2007. Paper Back. Widely read and beloved for more than a thousand years, the Hitopadesa (Book of Good Counsels) is an anthology of folk wisdom that offers humorous and profound reflections on human lives and loves, philosophies and follies. Drawing on traditional sources, Narayana presents classic tales..... More
Modern Library, April 2001. Trade Paperback. Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story..... More
Penguin Classics, July 2007. Paper Back. Enduring and profound, among the earliest and most popular of all books of fables First recorded 1500 years ago, but taking its origins from a far earlier oral tradition, the Pancatantra is ascribed by legend to the celebrated, half-mythical teacher Visnu Sarma. Asked by..... More
Chelsea Publishing Co. Leather. No date, but was possibly printed in 1930s. Author not listed, but Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736 – 1794) was German writer credited with this classic adventure tale, and Rapse is discussed at length in Thomas Seccombe's introduction. The translator is unnamed. Navy blue leather cover deeply..... More
University Books, January 1961. Cloth. Orange cloth with black lettering on spine. Tanning & foxing to end pages. Heavy foxing to textblock edges. Price clipped jacket with heavy foxing & two inch tear at bottom of front fold. Two half inch tears at top edge. More
Penguin Classics, July 2007. Trade Paperback. Half-mythical, heroic and sagacious, the emperor VikramOaditya is widely regarded as India's greatest monarch. This collection of stories tells of the ruler's fabled encounter with a vetOala, a genie who inhabits the body of a corpse." Clean, sound, gently read. More
The Citadel Press, December 1973. Paper Back. Exterior user wear. Stains to textblock fore-edge. Red-marker remainder dot bottom edge. Interior text without markings, underlining or side-notes. Decent reading copy of classic study of Werewolfs by Augustus Montague Summers, an English clergyman, scholar and believer in Werewolfs and Vampires. Summers wrote..... More
Modern Library Giant, January 1942. Hardcover. In tattered jacket torn in two parts. Navy blue cloth with some mild discoloration. Tanning to end pages. More
Penguin Classics, February 2007. Trade Paperback. Warrior-prince Rama is about to be crowned Young King, when he hears the devastating news that his father, King of Ayodhya, has been tricked into banishing him to the forest. His devoted wife Sita insists on accompanying him in exile, but the evil ten-headed..... More