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LATIN TEXTS AND GUIDES GREEK TEXTS AND GUIDES
AESCHYLUS (The Complete Greek Tragedy Series)
Aeschylus II (The Suppliant Maidens / The Persians / Seven Against Thebes / Prometheus Bound)

VG- discoloured edges of wraps. $10 B/B [Item# 324 ANCLT] University Chicago Press 1991 second edition, softcover, vii 180pp. Greek drama. ISBN 0226307948

AESOP translated S A HANDFORD
Fables of Aesop

VG name to first page.

$8 A/B [Item# 231 ANCLT]

Penguin Classics 1973 paperback, xx 228pp, illustrated by Brian Robb. Ancient Greek didactic literature. ISBN 0140440437



ANDERSON J J (editor)  Patience Old and Middle English Texts series
VG VG sunend DW, neat rubber name stamp to fep, some minor age browning $10 B/A Manchester University Press 1969 first edition hard cover, viii 112pp + frontis. ISBN 0719003350 [# 1349 ancient literature]
APULEIUS retold by W H D Rouse
The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius including the Tale of Cupid and Psyche.

G ex-library with stamps, rubbed joints, and a patch of the lower board cloth trimmed away. $4 C/B [Item# 331 ANCLT] John Murray 1940 first thus edition, 16mo cloth, xi 116pp, illustrated with cuts by Kupfer-Sachs.


APULEIUS translated by Robert Graves
The Transformations of Lucius Apuleius otherwise known as The Golden Ass.

G+ taped head of spine, some wear and mild surface soiling, aged paper stock, name to fep, sewn sheets in printed wrapper. $5 C/B [Item# 332 ANCLT] Penguin 1951 third printing paperback, 298pp.


ARISTOPHANES translated Patric Dickinson
Aristophanes Plays; 1 (Acharnians / Knights / Clouds / Wasps / Peace)

VG- rubbed, soiled wraps. $10 C/C [Item# 327 ANCLT] Oxford University Press 1970 softcover, xi 274pp. Greek drama. ISBN 0192810545



BLISS AJ editor  Sir Orfeo second edition
VG sunned spine, small notation at head of contents page, name stamp to fep $20 B/B Oxford University 1966 paper wrappers, lx 79pp, includes comparison of the extent manuscripts. [# 1346 medieval literature]

CHAUCER edited by BREWER D S  The Parlement of Foulys Nelson's Medieval and Renaissance Library
VG VG name stamp to fep $20 C/B Nelson 1964 hard cover, 168pp. [# 1344 medieval literature]

EURIPIDES translated by Philip Vellacott  The Bacchae and other plays VG names to inside cover $7 A/A Penguin Classics 1982 paperback, 249pp. ISBN 0140440445 [PB# 367 anclt]
EURIPIDES translated by Gilbert Murray
The Alcestis of Euripides

VG

$7 B/B [Item# 323 ANCLT]

Allen & Unwin 1922 cloth, 12mo, xvi 82pp. Greek drama.


EURIPIDES translated Gilbert Murray
The Bacchae

VG- $4 A/A [Item# 329 ANCLT] Allen & Unwin 1957 paperback, 90pp. Greek drama.



EURIPIDES  The Bacchae and other plays Penguin first edition
VG- rubbed spine ends, small split at tail, light scattered foxing to wrappers $8 A/A Penguin [L44] 1954 first edition paperback, 234pp+ adverts. A new translation by Philip Vellacott. Ion / The Women of Troy / Helen / The Bacchae [PB# 605 ancient literature]

EURIPIDES translated by Philip Vellacott  Alcestis and other plays Hippolytus, Iphigenia in Tauris, Alcestis
VG names to first page $10 A/A Penguin Classics L31 1953 first thus sewn paperback, 165pp. [PB# 945 ancient literature]

EURIPIDES translated by Philip Vellacott  Alcestis and other plays Hippolytus, Iphigenia in Tauris, Alcestis
VG small bookseller stamps to first page and rear inside wrapper $7 A/A Penguin Classics L31 1959 sewn paperback, 165pp. [PB# 946 ancient literature]

GORDON E V editor  Pearl MS. Cotton Nero A. x, f. 37.
VG VG DW sunned, closed top edge foxed, name stamp to fep $10 C/B Oxford University 1966 hard cover, 167pp [# 1345 medieval literature]

HOMER translated by Rieu  The Iliad VG $8 C/B Penguin 1956 paperback (perfect bound) 469pp + adverts [PB# 355 anc lit]

LANGLAND William  Piers the Ploughman translated into modern English by J F Goodridge
VG small mark to cover $7 A/B Penguin Classics [L87] 1960 first reprint paperback, 366pp [PB# 856 medieval literature]

MALORY Sir Thomas  Le Morte d'Arthur - Tales Seven and Eight edited by Greg Waite; Otago Studies in English 3
VG- insect damage to first page $10 C/C English Department (University of Otago) 1993 soft cover xxxvii 187pp ISBN 0959791493[# 1535 medieval literature]
MALORY Thomas
Le Morte D'Arthur (Everyman Library vol 2 only)

VG light wear to covers, bookseller stamp to paste down.

$10 C/B [RM 194]

Dent Everyman 1912 cloth with gilt spine, 411pp. Vol 2 of 2.



MALORY retold by Keith Baines  Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur, King Arthur and the Legends of The Round Table VG $7 C/B Mentor Classic [MQ415] paperback 1962 first edition 512pp intro by Robert Graves[PB#133 anc hst]

PEARSALL D A (editor)  The Floure and the Leafe, and, The Assembly of Ladies Medieval and Renaissance Library
VG VG minor wear to DW fore edge fold, neat rubber name stamp to fep $15 C/B Nelson 1962 first edition hard cover, viii 191pp. [# 1350 ancient literature]
PETRONIUS (BALME M G)
The Millionaire's Dinner Party, an adaptation of the Cena Trialchionis of Petronius

VG+

$30 B/A [ANCLT 1]

Oxford Univ Press 1983 corrected edition softcover, 95pp, illustrated. Latin workbook on the ancient text. ISBN 0199120250


PETRONIUS translated Paul Dinnage
The Satyricon of Petronius

VG- G price clipped DW chipped and rubbed to edges and corners but generally intact, large chip to tail of spine.

$20 C/B [ANCLT 2]

Spearman & Calder 1953 first thus cloth, 162pp. Translation of BCE Roman satire on an opulent Roman feast.


PETRONIUS translated by Paul Dinnage
The Satyricon (unexpurgated)

G+ aged paper, rubbed wraps. $5 C/A [Item# 330 ANCLT] Panther 1964 paperback, 189pp.


PLAUTUS translated E F Watling
The Pot of Gold and Other Plays

VG

$10 A/B [Item# 189 ANCLT]

Penguin 1987 paperback, 268pp. The Pot of Gold/ The Prisoners/ The Brothers Menaechmus/ The Swaggering Soldier/ Pseudolus. ISBN 0140441492


PLAUTUS
The Pot of Gold and Other Plays

VG- light cover wear. $10 C/B [Item# 328 ANCLT] Penguin paperback, 268pp. The Pot of Gold/ The Prisoners/ The Brothers Menaechmus/ The Swaggering Soldier/ Pseudolus. Roman Drama. ISBN 0140441492



POGGIO ( Giovanni Francesco Poggio Bracciolini )  The Facetiae translated by Bernhardt J Hurwood
VG+ near fine $10 A/B Tandem [T178] 1968 first thus edition paperback, 219pp. First complete and unexpurgated English translation. Ribald Renaissance classic. [PB# 846 literature medieval renaissance]

SISAM Kenneth editor  Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose
VG minor edge staining, inscription to inside front cover, sunned spine $12 C/C Oxford University Press 1978 soft cover with sewn binding, xlvii 460pp. Includes a vocabulary by J RR Tolkien ISBN 0198710933 [# 1248 ancient literature]

SISAM Kenneth editor  Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose
VG name to first page, sunned spine $12 C/C Oxford University Press 1975 soft cover with sewn binding, xlvii 460pp. Includes a vocabulary by J RR Tolkien ISBN 0198710933 [# 1626 ancient literature]

SOPHOCLES translated by E F Watling  The Theban Plays King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
VG $6 A/A Penguin (L3)1956 sewn paperback, 168pp. [PB# 366 anclt]
SOPHOCLES translated E F Watling
The Theban Plays (King Oedipus / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone)

G- covers worn with edge tears, pages creased, bottom corner chipped, foxed wraps. $3 A/A [Item# 337 ANCLT] Penguin 1947 first edition, sewn paperback, 185pp. Greek drama. Penguin first edition.


SOPHOCLES (The Complete Greek Tragedy Series)
Sophocles II (Ajax / The Women of Trachis / Electra / Philoctetes)

VG

$10 B/B [Item# 325 ANCLT]

University Chicago Press 1969 softcover, 254pp. Greek drama. SIBN 0226307867


SOPHOCLES (The Complete Greek Tragedy Series)
Sophocles II (Ajax / The Women of Trachis / Electra / Philoctetes)

VG sunned spine

$10 B/B [Item# 326 ANCLT]

University Chicago Press 1969 softcover, 254pp. Greek drama. SIBN 0226307867



VIRGIL trsl C Day Lewis  The Aeneid World's Classics
VG $8 A/B Oxford 1986 paperback, xxvii 450pp. [PB# 876 ancient literature]

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