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1997Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Light ding along bottom back edge. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. Includes scholar's handwritten pencil review notes tipped in. ; 534 pages; This book explores the ways in which legal disputes were settled out of court in fourth-century BC Athens and in second-century BC Rome. After examining pretrial scenarios in the Attic orators and comparable ones in Roman legal sources, the author turns to the plays of Greek New Comedy and their later Roman adaptations. There she identifies similar scenarios, especially in disputes concerning sexual violations, the marriages of heiresses, and divorces, and shows that recognition of legal scenarios aids interpretation of New Comedy texts.
1997Scholar's name to DJ flap (R. E. Fantham). Corners are a little bumped. Very light soiling to textblock. A few pages have light pencil notes. Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping and creasing along top edge. ; 534 pages; This book explores the ways in which legal disputes were settled out of court in fourth-century BC Athens and in second-century BC Rome. After examining pretrial scenarios in the Attic orators and comparable ones in Roman legal sources, the author turns to the plays of Greek New Comedy and their later Roman adaptations. There she identifies similar scenarios, especially in disputes concerning sexual violations, the marriages of heiresses, and divorces, and shows that recognition of legal scenarios aids interpretation of New Comedy texts.
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1947pp. xviii, 533, (8) [Publisher's catalogue]. Penciled notations in margins of publisher's catalogue. 12mo. 180mm. Original full cloth binding, soiled and stained. First Modern Library Edition. MOD LIB BX 1
1977In 1959 an archaeological dig unearthed the complete text, written on papyrus, of Menander's comedy The Dyskolos; this was the first complete work ever found by Menander, the a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. A verse translation -a "superb modern rendering" of a lost Greek comedy recovered from thr papyrus. Book
1963An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 74 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: Simon Sez 'Sex" - advice; Some Guys Got It - fiction; Fifty Miles a Day for J.F.K. - satire; The First Daze of Vacation - humor; Mirror, Mirror... - photos of Lupe Lopez; "Dear John's" First Date - fiction; The Car of Kings - "La Royale" built by Ettore Bugatti; Beyond Words - humor; He Plays With Dolls - photo essay on French cartoonist Peynet who had a love affair with a doll named Damour (of which he sold two million copies!); The Most Passionate Professions - Survey; Pooling Her Resources - photo essay of Paula Angelo; The Man Who Felt Persecuted - fiction; Festival Girls - The Movie That Out-Dolces "Vita" - pictorial essay; George Q. Lewis's Comedy Workshop in New York, a College for Comics - article with photos; Going Up - pictorial essay on Angela Jones; In Training For What? - fiction; Ah! La France! - pictorial essay on Lena France of Boston; Hue and Cry - correspondence; Sound On - records; Checkmate - shopping; Back cover color-photo ad for Mr H. Esq. features young man in black sweater with red and grey trim. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
18468vo., text in double column; contemporary marbled boards, later dark blue cloth back lettered in gilt, brown endpapers, expertly recased, a bright, clean copy. Hunt's edition was first published in 1840. Includes The Rivals, St. Patrick's Day, The Duenna, A Trip to Scarborough, The School for Scandal, The Camp, The Critic, Pizarro.
1999ref. B7-COQ3-TRFR1999. Paperback. 1999 Music Sales Ltd out of print paperback edition. Some reading wear and creasing else good condition. paperback
192632 pages. Features: Interesting photos of unusual work and play inside front cover; Public demands that Congress suppress (Radio) Pirates of the Air; The Divine Comedy of Newspapers; The Rise of an American Race - What Effect Will the 'Old Stock' Have on the People of the Future?; With General Gouraud in the Land of the Crusaders; The Birthplace of the Quaker Poet - the Whittier homestead; Henry Ford's Page - the American home, in its economic aspect, is a business proposition; Editorials - Merchant Mr. Nathan Strauss and his allegation of "the campaign of slander against the Jewish People", the Hall-Mills murder trial, Wooden houses in Britain; The Adventure of Mrs. Farbman; The Cheapest Thing in Europe - Human Beings; Fantastic photo-illustrated centerfold illustrates Where Santa Claus Lives and What He Does; The Boston Tea Party's Last Survivor - David Kennison died at the age of 115; Who Discovered America?; How Victoria Trained King Edward VII - the Queen thought Prince Albert the model of perfection, but Young Wales did not respond. Chats with Office Callers; Q & A; I Read in the Papers - Senator William E. Borah rated highly by Chinese, Iowa Women can now be Legislators, Newspapers train convicts in crime, Dayton, OH druggists rid their stores of salacious and suggestive magazines. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
176772 p. + Frontis. Title page printed in black and red. 155mm. Virtually disbound. This perhaps should best be considered a candidate for rebinding. VERIA BX 1
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1901143p. Illustrated with 75 original drawings by F. Obber. Pictorial title page. Uncut. Top edge gold. 8vo. Original full white stamped green cloth binding. HUMOR 5 / HUMOR 8 = XLib. red worn cloth, decorated title page.
LONDON, Guild Publishing - 1987 - 3 volumes In-8, sous emboîtage - Reliure toile à la Bradel, décorée 2 couleurs bleues, décors et titre dorés - Gravure-frontispice et illustrations T. I - Pagination sur 2 colonnes - 1432 pages - Ex. comme neuf En langue anglaise
1989ref. 007152New York : Pantheon Books 1989 1989. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. 2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm ; ISBN: 0679726470 v. 1; 9780679726470 v. 1; 0679726489 v. 2; 9780679726487 v. 2 LCCN: 89-8614 ; LC: PN1992.77.M583; Dewey: 791.45/72 ; OCLC: 19776021 ; "Forty-five classic episodes of the most entertaining writing to have gone into television anywhere. The minister of silly walks the dead parrot banter in a cheese shop - here is every silly satirical skit every snide insult every saucy aside." ; Contents: Whither Canada ; Sex & violence ; How to recognize different types of trees from quite a long way away -- Owl-stretching time ; Man's crisis of identity in the latter half of the twentieth century ; It's the arts -- You're no fun anymore ; Full frontal nudity ; The ant an introduction -- Untitled ; The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra goes to the bathroom ; The naked ant ; Intermission -- Face the press ; The Spanish Inquisition ; Déjá vu -- The Buzz Aldrin show ; Live from the grill-o-mat ; It's a living -- The Attila the Hun show ; Archaeology today ; How to recognize different parts of the body -- Scott of the Antarctic ; How not to be seen ; Spam ; Royal episode 13 -- Whicker's world ; Mr. & Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford popular ; The money programme -- Blood devastation death war and horror ; The all-England summarize Proust competition ; The war against pornography -- Salad days ; The cycling tour ; The nude organist -- E. Henry Thripshaw's disease ; Dennis Moore ; A book at bedtime ; Grandstand -- The golden age of ballooning ; Michael Ellis ; The light entertainment war -- Mr. Neutron ; Party political broadcast ; FINE New York : Pantheon Books, 1989 paperback
ref. 1334052891.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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1977Light foxing. Light creasing to spine. ; Ancient Culture And Society; 168 pages
1977['Ancient Culture and Society Series] 168p + 2 p. of plates. bibliography. index. Clean crisp text, l0oks almost unread. Book
1983No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked lightly rubbed/indented boards and no bumping to corners. 160pp. 'The complete illustrated scripts of the five Channel 4 films plus the one that got away' - Five Go Mad in Dorset, War, the beat generation, Bad News Tour, Summer School and Back to Normal with Eddie Monsoon. Stars Adrian Edmonson, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Rik Mayall, Robbie Coltrane, Danny Peacock and Peter Richens. Very well illustrated.
1982Near fine/Fine (fine clipped dj, a very crisp bright copy in fine conditon but small white label neatly pasted over small ownership signature on front free endpaper) octavo 224pp. First British edition. Tour of Mel Brooks' work on television and records, and all of the films. 8pp b/w plates of film stills.
ref. 33858Nottingham Sutton Printer N.D. 1803. 12mo drop-head title 4pp. disbound. Relates to 1803 contested Nottingham election between Daniel P. Coke and J. Birch. In the form of a drama set in the house of D. P. Coke at Derby. University of Nottingham copy only on Copac. [Nottingham], Sutton, Printer, N.D., [1803] unknown
1994A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Small spots on gray cloth cover. Edge wear to dust jacket. 5 1/2"w x 8 1/4"h. 1104 pages. Includes all fourteen comedies along with notes and glossary: The Tempest; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Measure for Measure; The Comedy of Errors; Much Ado About Nothing; Love's Labour's Lost; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Merchant of Venice; As You Like It; The Taming of the Shrew; All's Well That Ends Well; Twelfth Night; or, What You Will; The Winter's Tale.
18952 vols. 8vo. First Edition thus on laid paper with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present) titles in red and black free endpapers very lightly browned; original green buckram gilt backs uncut AND LARGELY UNOPENED boards and b NCBEL II 751.
1846Former owners name to titlepage. Book has been rebound in 1/4 green cloth spine (spine a bit sunned) with cream colored boards. Some chipping to edges of a few pages. Some foxing. Else VG and attractive copy; Latin text with English introduction and notes and commentary. Xxiii, 554 pp; 554 pages
1910Small tears to first 3 pages. Pages tanned. Corners a little edgeworn. Spine ends are a little frayed and chipped. ; Latin text with English introduction and notes. ; P. Terenti Afri Comoediae; 340 pages
