European / 2. Classical / Greek from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Sotheby's, 1991. Cloth, [401] pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Sale code: 6147 "TWINS". Auction held June 20, 1991. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Corners lightly bumped. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. 1066 lots. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

New York: Rizzoli, 1981. Cloth, 567 pages, chiefly illustrations; 22 cm. Translated from the French. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Basic Books; Perseus, 2010. vii, 566 pages, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to boards, age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "Song of Wrath tells the story of Classical Athens' victorious Ten Years' War (431-421 BC) against grim Sparta -- the first… Saber más sobre este artículo

Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1963. Cloth, 107 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed and warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Age toning, light soiling. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. Freely adapted from the Hippolytus of Euripides by Leighton Rollins. Illustrated by Carolyn Huff Kinsey.. SIGNED. 1st. Hardcover. Very… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Basic Books; Perseus, 2006. xvi, 656 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome once dominated the world, and they continue to fascinate and inspire us. Classical art and… Saber más sobre este artículo

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. Cloth, x, 358 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture, Volume 24. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket, with surface rubbing, protected in a mylar cover. "Erotic sensibility pervaded the art, literature, and social mores of the ancient Greeks. Early religious figurines emphasize sexual features, and written documents confirm that the people… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Thames and Hudson, 1985. 180 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. First paperback edition. "The image of Sparta as a repressive warrior society that shunned the arts has been the accepted view well into our own century. Drawing on contemporary written evidence and archaeological finds, L. F. Fitzhardinge portrays… Saber más sobre este artículo

London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Cloth, xiv, 225 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Plato's legend of Atlantis has become notorious among scholars as the most absurd lie in literature. Partially dismissed because of the philosopher's eclipsing reputation in the twentieth century in conjunction with Nazi adoption of the Atlantis allegory,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002. 157 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's name,, barely visible/title page, otherwise unmarked. Light edgewear. "What is a pyxis? Who was the Amasis Painter? What is Six's technique? This illustrated book presents definitions and descriptions of these and many other Greek vase shapes, painters, and techniques encountered… Saber más sobre este artículo

Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1959. [32] pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Excavations of the Athenian Agora, Picture book, no. 3. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dogeared a couple of times. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. "Small sculptured figures of humans and animals have been found all over the Agora, ranging in date from the earliest… Saber más sobre este artículo

San Bernardino, CA: California State University, 1989. 86 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Exhibition held at the University Art Gallery, California State University, San Bernardino, May 5 to June 2, 1989; and the Art Galleries, California State University, Northridge, February 26 to March 30, 1990. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. . 1st.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1971. 1 volume (unpaged), illustrations; 22 cm. Excavations of the Athenian Agora, Picture book, no. 12. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. "As well as being a political center, the Agora was the focus of a noisy and varied commercial life. This booklet illustrates the archaeological,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Athens and New Rochelle, Ny: Ekdotike Athenon S. A.; Caratzas Brothers, Publishers, 1977. Cloth, 418 pages, colour illustrations; 32 cm. Firm binding, unmarked. Expected browning, edges & endpapers lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.

Athens: Hesperos Ediitons, 2004. 96 pages, colour illustrations; 24 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. . Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1968. Cloth, 223 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour); 34 cm. Translation of Gela; destin d'une cite grecque de Sicile. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top right corner bumped. Age toning. Dust jacket price-clipped on the front flap, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly… Saber más sobre este artículo

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xv, 240 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. First paperback edition. "The classical human body is perhaps the single most important and wide-ranging legacy bequeathed to the modern world by antiquity. Not only has it directed the evolutionary trajectory of western art; it has also saturated almost every… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Viking Press, 1981. xii, 278 pages, [5] leaves of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Front free endpaper (blank) removed, age toning. Dust jacket with a slightly sunned spine. On the archaeological dig at Knossos, revealing the wealth of the Minoan civilization, and its central character Sir Arthur Evans (1851-1941).. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London and New York: Thames and Hudson; World of Art Ser., 1996. 304 pages, illustrations (some colour), map; 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Remainder mark/tail edge. CONTENTS: The beginnings and geometric Greece; Greece and the arts of the east and Eygpt; archaic Greek art; classical sculpture and architecture; other arts in classical Greece; hellenistic art; Greek arts and… Saber más sobre este artículo

Athens: Ekdotike Athenon S. A.; Greek Museums Ser., 1976. 96 pages, 95 colour illustrations; 24 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean text. Half-title page lightly soiled, age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Guidebook.

New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press; World of Art Ser., 1978. 252 pages, illustrations, diagrams, maps; 21 cm. 481 plates. Tight, clean copy. Browning.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.