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Ancient Greek Drama:

Aristophanes . THE WASPS OF ARISTOPHANES AS PERFORMED AT CAMBRIDGE 26 NOVEMBER - 1 DECEMBER 1909
Cambridge 1909 Bowes and Bowes. With the verse translation of Benjamin Bickley Rogers. 12mo., 119pp., wraps. VG. (a41090)
$35.00Gravina, Gio. Vicenzo. DELLA RAGION POETICA LIBRI DUE
Venezia 1829 Alvisopoli. On Artistophanes, Catullus, Religion and Morality in Dante, Madame Colbert, etc. 12mo., 239pp., Nice copperplate portrait of author as frontispiece, papercovered boards with vellum spine. (Paper on boards is later and not original; vellum backstrip is original and in excellent condition but no title is present on spine.) Complete in one volume. Fairly Good, front inner hinge cracked, rear hinge tender but not yet cracked; end papers toned and brittle and chipping on edges; very light foxing throughout text. Binding secure. (a42567)
$85.00 (drama) . THE CARLETON DRAMA REVIEW - VOLUME 1 NUMBER 1 THROUGH NUMBER 3 1955-1957
Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. This is Volume One of the journal which later became the Tulane Drama Review. Three issues bound in one octavo hardcover volume. Articles: Evolution of Tragic Hero by George Boas and a Symposium on Sophocles Electra with Eugene Falk, Leon Reisman and Robert Corrigan and many others. 66p. 60p, 64p.. Owner signed (Edward F. Kook). Good, light cover wear, corners and spine ends a bit worn, no DJ. (original book, not a reprint) (a51113)
$39.00 Nicolau de Olwer, Luis . EL TEATRO DE MENANDRO
Barcelona 1911 1st L'Avenc. Text in Spanish and in Greek. Menander 343?-291?BC, Athenian writer of more than 100 comedies of which only fragments remain. Hardcover 4to., 332pp., index. 1/2 leather with leather spine labels. Nice binding, attractive book, finely bound. VG, a few minor spots in text. (a5305)
$165.00