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New York: Benziger Brothers, 1955. Later Printing. Hardcover. Fine. An exceedingly bright, crisp copy.. 16mo. 4 x 6.5 in. 1,340 pp. Black cloth, titles in green, all edges red, with 5 ribbon markers; blue decorative endpapers. Edited by the monks of St. Mary's Abbey, Newark, N.J., Rt. Rev. Patrick O'Brien, O.S.B. Abbott. Profusely illustrated with color plates, as well as black & white vignettes. Text printed in black & red, in Latin & English. Approbations. For a brief moment in the post-war years, as Catholics came into the American mainstream, this curious & strangely attractive publication of Catholic Americana was the best-selling missal in the country. A sharp copy, inscribed by Abbott PATRICK M. O'BRIEN 'God bless you!' on the Feast of the Ascension, 1958.

Washington DC: Catholic University of America, 1934. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Moderate wear to extremities, with small, closed tear at foot of spine, some toning to spine; light spotting to top edge. Previous ownership stamp to upper cover, previous ownership signature to title page; text otherwise clean & bright.. 8vo. 6 x 9 in. xix, 209 pp. Plain printed wrappers. Published as Vol. 2 of 'The Catholic University of America Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Latin' series, edited by Roy J. Deferrari, Martin R.P. McGuire, and Brother Giles, C.F.X. Scarce.

Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 2001. Paperback. Good. Wrappers lightly worn, lightly soiled, lightly toned at extremities. Binding tight.. 8vo. 6 x 9 in. 369-465, [7 blanks] pp. Plain buff typographic wrappers. Articles by JAMES J. O'HARA, CASE DUE, ANDREW WOLPERT, and JAMES RIVES. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his marginalia to 'Vergilian Etymological Wordplay' by O'HARA.

London: J.M. Dent, 1919. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good. Ex-library, with several attractive Franciscan St. John the Baptist Cincinatti stamps and evidence of call-number removal to spine (no pockets); bookplate, previous ownership signature & stamp to front endpapers. Text otherwise clean & rather crisp, with a slight touch of toning to extremeties. Light edgewear, with some light toning to spine. Binding secure. A sturdy copy.. Royal 4to. 12.25 x 13 in. 178 pp. Deluxe edition. Green cloth, titles in gilt. Illustrated with 30 tipped-in color plates, from drawings by EUGÈNE BURNAND. This magnificent edition is limited to 700 copies for Great Britain & 500 for America. Fresh material from a Spanish version of the 'Fioretti' (Sevile, 1492), & from other sources, has here been translated for the first time into English.

Granada: Comisión Nacional de Cincuentenario, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Binding square & tight, text unmarked.. 8vo. 314 pp. Original glossy wrappers. Text in Spanish. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; unmarked.

[Milan]: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1972. First Italian Edition. Paperback. Light spotting to top edge, else fine in fine jacket.. 8vo. 5.25 x 7.75 in. 252, [12] pp. Blue wrappers, in brown & orange dust jacket. Page-facing translation, with text in Italian and English. A fresh, crisp copy. The scarce Italian issue of Olson's great poetic work.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good indeed. Very slightly cocked, with a touch of sunning to spine & hint of soiling to covers. Previous ownership signature in year of publication to front flyleaf. Binding tight, text clean & bright. Lacking dust jacket.. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.625 in. xi, 205 pp. Original burgundy cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Published as Vol. III of the 'Texts and Studies: Contributions to Biblical and Patristic Literature' series, edited by C.H. DODD.

Sheridan House, 1987. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very good in very good jacket.. 4to. 216 pp. Original red boards in light green pictorial dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in black & white; pictorial endpapers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; unmarked.

Leiden: Brill, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, as new. Without dust jacket (as issued).. Large 8vo. 6.25 x 9.5 in. 303 pp. Original glossy blue pictorial boards. Published as Volume 4 of the 'Historiography of Rome and Its Empire' series, edited by CARSTEN HJORT LANGE and JESPER MAJBOM MADSEN.

Editorial Maye, 2009. First Edition. Paperback. Very near fine.. Demy 8vo. 244 pp. Original french-folded pictorial wrappers. Text in Spanish. One of 1000 copies. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; inscribed by Nena Ossa in year of publication on title page. Scarce.

New York: Modern Library, 1930. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Very good in original cloth. Heavily spine-faded, with some light wear to extremities. Lacking dust jacket.. 16mo. 4.5 x 6.75 in. ix, 371 pp. Modern Library Binding Style 5.1, full seafoam-green cloth, titles and Kent torchbearer device in gilt, with Kent endpapers. Includes short stories by Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, D.H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, et al.