Search Results: daphnis and chloe by george thornley

New York: Rarity Press, Inc.. Good with no dust jacket. 1931. Hardcover. Some fading to spine. Wear to spine top. Owner name. Top page edges lightly soiled. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 199 pages .

Harvard University Press, 1989. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, May 13 (Mother's Day Sale item)* 384 pp., hardcover, fine in a very good dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Harvard & William Heinemann, 1962. hardcover. Good. . Ex-library copy with usual markings. Pages are clean and intact.

Loeb Classical Library, 1916-01-01. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, 1962. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Dust jacket detached and torn, but present and laid in. Ink underlining and highlighter markings throughout.

Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, 1978. Hardcover with dust jacket. VG/VG. Corner-clipped dust jacket.

William Heinemann; Harvard University Press, 1935. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Very good; slight foxing. Previous owner's stamp.

London: Richard Lesley & Co. Ltd., 1947. [xvi], [195]pp [some roughly opened page edges, but wide margins so no text or illustrations affected; old ink price on front free endpaper; chip to top dust jacket spine; some tears and edge wear to jacket]. First Edition thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. Illus. by Decorations by Webster Murray. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 16mo. Loeb Classical Library No. 69. Orig. olive green cloth, xxiii, 423 pp., 8 pp. ads. Light chafing to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, a few spots of rubbing to joints and spine ends. Two romances: Daphnis and Chloe by Longus and Romances of Parthinius and other fragments.

Privately Printed for Rarity Press, 1931. First RP Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. John Austen. Translated out of Longus by Thornley in 1657, and long out of print. Superb color plates by Austen. An unusually well preserved copy in a Brodart jacket cover.

Cambridge, Harvard University Press / London, William Heinemann, 1989. xxiii+423 pp. the lesbian pastorals of Daphnis and Chloe; love romances by Parthenius; Longus was a sophist living about 200 AD; Parthenius was brought to Rome in 73 BC as a prisoner of war, and settled as poet and teacher; parallel Greek text and English translation; very good condition (almost unused)

Paperback / softback. New.

NEW YORK NY: RARITY PRESS, 1931. hard cover no dj. Good for its age, minor fading

New York: Rarity Press. 1931. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. All three volumes Very Good+ in boards. Owner inscription on front pastedown of each Comedies volume. Lightly sunned spines. .

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1925. Small Quarto. Unopened. 199(1) pp. signed by the illustrator John Austen on the half-title, Translated out of the Greek of Longus by George Thornley in 1657. Beautifully illustrated throughout in color and in black and white. This considered the first pastoral prose romance. The story of two foundlings who are brought up by shepherds and who fall in love at an early age. Bound in cream cloth stamped in gilt, covers soiled, spine darkened, corners bumped, closed marginal tear to page 55. A good copy.

London: A. Zwemmer 1937. Small 8vo. 212 pp. Publisher's stiff vellum binding with gilt lettering to spine. No. 218 of 250 copies, with a note on blue letter paper of presentation from the artist, Aristide Malliol. Uncut, 52 woodcut illustrations and 4 initial letters. A few spots to the edges of the pages, otherwise internally clean. Slipcase is tanned around the edges, with some spots. Garvey, The Artist and the Book 174. . Near Fine. Full Vellum. Limited Numbered Edition. 1937.

London: A. Zwemmer, 1937. Signed by Aristide Maillol; Numbered 209 of 250. Hardcover. Good (Slipcase is worn, peeled, foxed and smudged, with the top open; vellum boards are heavily smudged and darkened; textblock edges are smudged and foxed; interior is super clean; binding is solid.). Maillol, Aristide. Full white vellum boards with gilt lettering on the spine in a personalized white slipcase that says, "for Marion; from Ted 1938." 211 pp. (unopened and untrimmed pages); richly illustrated; signature of Maillol in pencil on the final engraved page. Signature page reads "Aristide Maillol engraved with his own hand the wood-cuts which illustrated this book. The text is that of Thornley's translation of 1657, revised and augmented. Philippe Gonin of Paris undertook the achievement of this work, and printed it on his hand-press, for A. Zwemmer, London." Extremely rare. Numbered 209 of 250 numbered, signed by Maillol and printed on hand made paper.