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Charles, Gerda (introduction) (Homer; Herodotus; Apollonius; Phaedrus; Pliny the Younger; Geoffrey of Monmouth; Sir Thomas Malory; Robert Greene; Daniel Defoe; Joseph Addison; Oliver Goldsmith; Oscar Wilde; Christian Gellert; E. T. A. Hoffman): GREAT SHORT STORIES OF THE WORLD: The Two Brothers; Setna and the Magic Book; Eumaeus' Tale; The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse; King Rhampsinitus and the Thief; Phineus and the Harpies; The Robbers of Egypt; Horatius at the Bridge, New York Gallery Books 1990
ISBN: 0831739800 Very Good+ Graham Potts;

(xvii) 876 pp. Actually a first thus. Glossy pictorial boards with a matching dustjacket; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners; no interior markings. Cover art by Graham Potts. This anthology contains: ANCIENT EGYPT: The Two Brothers: Anpu and Bata - Anonymous; Setna and the Magic Book - Anonymous; ANCIENT GREECE: Eumaeus' Tale by Homer; The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse by Aesop; King Rhampsinitus and the Thief by Herodotus; Phineus and the Harpies by Apollonius of Rhodes; The Robbers of Egypt by Heliodorus; ANCIENT ROME: Horatius at the Bridge by Livy; Orpheus and Eurydice by Ovid; The Shipwreck of Simonides by Phaedrus; The Matron of Ephesus by Petronius; The Haunted House by Pliny the Younger; The Dream by Apuleius; BIBLICAL LITERATURE: The Book of Ruth - Old Testament; The History of Susanna - The Apocrypha; The Prodigal Son - New Testament; Rabbi Akiva - The Talmud; The Jewish Mother - The Talmud; ANCIENT INDIA: The Ass in the Lion's Skin by Jataka; The Dove and the Crow by Panchatantra; The Story of Devadatta - Somadeva; The Jackal by Hitopadesa; PERSIA: Jamshid and Zuhak by Firdawsi; The Sailor and the Pearl Merchant - Anonymous; ARABIA: Khaled and Djaida by Al Asma'I; Abou Hassan the Way - Thousand and One Nights; GREAT BRITAIN: Grendel's Raid - Beowulf; Esyllt and Sabrina by Geoffrey of Monmouth; The Humbling of Jovinian - Gesta Romanorum; Lludd andLlevelys - The Mabinogion; Launcelot's Tourney by Sir Thomas Malory; Roberto's Tale by Robert Greene; True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe; The Soldier of an Heir by Joseph Addison; The Disabled Soldier by Oliver Goldsmith; The Bridal of Janet Dalrymple by Sir Walter Scott; The White Trout by Samuel Lover; The Queer Client by Charles Dickens; A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins; Squire Petrick's Lady by Thomas Hardy; Thrawn Janet by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde; Julia Cahill's Curse by George Moore; That Brute Simmons by Arthur Morrison; GERMANY: The Lay of Hildebrand - Anonymous; Siegfried and Kriemhild - The Lay of the Nibelungs; The Coming of Gandin by Gottfried von Strassburg; Bruin the Bear and Reynard the Fox - Reynard the Fox; Eulenspiegel and the Merchant - Eulenspiegel; Doctor Faust and the Usurer - The History of Dr. J. Faust; The Sick Wife by Christian Gellert; Little Briar Rose by The Brothers Grimm; The Story of Serapion by E. T. A. Hoffman; A Legend of the Dance by Gottfried Keller; The Fury by Paul Heyse; The Triple Warning by Arthur Schnitzler; A New Year's Eve Confession by Hermann Sudermann; FRANCE: The Divided Horsecloth by Bernier; The Priest and the Mulberries - Anonymous; The Lay of the Two Lovers by Marie de France; The Pios Lady and the Gray Friar by Marguerite de Navarre; He Who Married a Dumb Wife by Francois Rabelais; The Roast Meat Seller by Charles Perrault; The Four Friends by Jean de La Fontaine; Memnon the Philosopher by Voltaire; Lausus and Lydia by J. F. Marmontel; The Mysterious Mansion by Honore de Balzac; Mateo Falcone by Prosper Merimee; The Mummy's Foot by Theophile Gautier; The Torture of Hope by Villiers de L'Isle Adam; The Last Lesson by Alphonse Daudet; The Fairy Amoureuse by Emile Zola; The Substitute by Francois Coppee; Our Lady's Juggler by Anatole France; The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant; ITALY: The Bell of Atri - The Hundred Ancient Tales; The Galcon by Giovanni Boccaccio; Galgano by Ser Giovanni; The Two Ambassadors by Franco Sacchetti; The Cavalier of Toledo by Masuccio (Guardato;) Belphagor by Niccolo Macciavelli; A King in Disguise by Matteo Bandello; The Friar of Novara by Agnolo Firenzuola; The Greek Merchant by Giovanbattista Giraldi Cinthio; The Venetian Silk Mercer by Carlo Gozzi; Cavalleria Rusticana by Giovanni Verga; The Peasant's Will by Antonio Fogazzaro; Medicant Melody by Edmondo de Amicis; Lulu's Triumph by Matilde Serao; The Hero by Gabriele d'Annuzio; Two Miracles by Grazia Deledda; SPAIN: The Miracle of the Jew - Chronicle of the Cid; The Son and His Friends by Juan Manuel; How Lazaro Served a Bulero by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza; Guzman and My Lord Cardinal by Mateo Aleman; Rinconete and Cortadillo by Miguel Cervantes; The Tall Woman by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon; Maese Perez the Organist by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer; Adios Cordera by Leopoldo Alas; CHINA: The Story of Ming-y - Marvelous Tales; A Fickle Widow - Marvelous Tales; JAPAN: The Forty Seven Ronins - Anonymous; The Pier by Mori Ogwai; HUNGARY: The Invisible Wound by Karoly Kisfaludi; A Ball by Maurus Jokai; RUSSIA: The Snow Storm by Alexander Pushkin; St. John's Eve by Nikolai Gogol; The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev; The Christmas Tree and the Wedding by Feodor Dostoievsky; The Long Exile by Leo Tolstoy; The Old Bell Ringer by Vladimir Korolenko; The Signal by Vsevolod Garshin; The Bet by Anton Chekhov; One Autumn Night by Maxim Gorky; Silence by Leonid Adreyev; POLAND: The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall by Henryk Sienkiewicz; The Human Telegraph by Boleslav Prus; Forebodings by Stefan Zeromski; ICELAND: Baldr's Bale by Snorri Sturluson; Regin's Tale - Volsunga Saga; DENMARK: The Shepherdess and the Sweep by Hans Christian Andersen; Henrik and Rosalie by Meyer Aron Goldschmidt; Two Worlds by Jens Peter Jacobsen; NORWAY: The Smith Who Could Not Get Into Hell by Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe; The Father by Bjornstjerne Bjornson; Skobelef by Johan Bojer; SWEDEN: Love and Bread by August Strindberg; The Eclipse by Selma Lagerlof; BELGIUM: The Mysterious Picture by Charles de Coster; The Massacre of the Innocents by Maurice Maeterlinck; The Soul of Veere by Camille Lemonnier; One Night by Emile Verhaeren; CZECHOSLOVAKIA: The Vampire by Jan Neruda; Foltyn's Drum by Svatopluk Cech; COSTA RICA: Chivalry by Ricardo Fernandez Garcia; BRAZIL: The Attendant's Confession by J. M Machado de Assis; PERU: The Legend of Pygmalion by Ventura Garcia Calderon; UNITED STATES: Mrs Bullfrog by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe; Journalism in Tennessee by Mark Twain; The Man and the Snake by Ambrose Bierce; The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte; The Story In It by Henry James; Supply and Demand by O. Henry; The Lost Phoebe by Theodore Dreiser; Sophistication by Sherwood Anderson; A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather; and A Brown Woman by James Branch Cabell. Scans are available for all books. First Printing Very Good+ Hard Cover 8vo

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Solomon Jon: Ancient World in the Cinema, US A S Barnes 1978
ISBN: 0-498-02032-0 Fine

PLEASE EMAIL FOR SHIPPING RATES. 210 pages, size approximately 11 inches tall by 7 inches, with an index. "The magnificent, classical heroism and the mysteriously religious profundity of ancient Greece, Rome, Israel, Egypt, and Babylon have captivated film audiences from the earliest years of filmdom to the present day. Whether it be the birth of Jesus, the parting of the Red Sea, or the chariot race of Ben-Hur, the intense religion, miraculous spectacle, and exciting adventure of the ancient world have earned their laurels as some of the cinema's most filmable subjects. Beginning with the silent Italian spectaculars The Last Days of Pompeii and Quo Vadis?, Jon Solomon investigates some of the most significant and controversial films of all time-Ben-Hur, Cleopatra, The Ten Commandments, Intolerance, King of Kings, Fellini Satyricon, The Robe, Cocteau's Orphee, The Fall of the Roman Empire, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Hercules, and many, many others. Are the plot, characters, costumes, atmospheres, and sets in these films authentic? Was Fox's62,000,000 Cleopatra really a failure? How should Jesus or Moses appear on the screen? Did Charlton Heston really injure him self while filming the chariot race for Ben-Hur? Why did Italy produce almost 200 "gladiator" films in the early six ties? What are the major attractions of the ancient world? These are just a handful of the questions Mr. Solomon investigates. After a chronological survey of all the 400-plus films in the genre, the author then discusses separately the films about Greek and Roman history; Greek and Roman mythology; the Old Testament; the New Testament; Egypt, Babylon, and the ancient Orient; ancient Greek tragedy; comedies about antiquity; and the amusing Italian "muscle- man epics." This book offers a Herculean portion of illustrations-200 photographs that provide striking comparisons between these films and the remnants of the ancient world. They reveal that such films as Jason and the Argonauts, Solomon and Sheba, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Spartacus, and Samson and Delilah take their makeup, costumes, sets, and plots directly from archaeological remains and ancient literary evidence. Above all, they prove that studious historical and archaeological research lie behind every successful film about antiquity. The Ancient World in the Cinema is more than a pleasantly informative book about "ancient movies"; it is a fascinating search for a noble, dazzling, exotic, exciting, and challenging bygone age of mankind". Book - Fine - with just a small amount of creasing to the ends of spine. Dust Jacket - Near Fine - small closed tear and slight creasing to the bottom of spine, and a small patch of yellowing to the very bottom of the front flap where an old price label once existed. Near Fine Hard Cover

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Keightley, Thomas: The Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy: For the Use of Schools, London Whittaker and Co 1852
Fair Brooke, W. H.

A pocket size book of 232 pages + an 8 page listing of publisher's titles a frontis and woodcuts by W. H. Brooke. Internally tight with a very few small fox marks. The decoratively embossed black covers are in a poor state - there is 3/8" missing from the top spine end so that the text block backs are exposed. The bottom edge is worn just up to the text block edge. There are splits own the side of the spine cover, although neither covers are actually hanging free. All four corners are worn through. The gilt "Keightley's Mythology" and it's decorative surround are nice and bright. Seventh Edition No Dustjacket Hard Cover 18mo

[SW: Classics Mythology fables Myths Ancient Greece Greek Italy Rome Victorian School TextbookChildrens Fiction Psychology, Sociology, Education, Classics, Latin Greek]

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Davenport Adams, W. H. Famous Caves and Catacombs Described and Illustrated, London Edinburgh and New York T. Nelson and Sons 1886
Very Good

A tight hardback with the original pale green cloth covers with gilt titles and a figure of Rameses on the spine. The front cover has black and gilt titles and a picture of a grotto. The back cover has a centrally palce emblem of Egyptian/Assyrian style. The spine is darkened, although the titles are still discenible, and there are some splits in the spine ends. The cover corners are underturned with small splits in the cloth at the points. The covers are dustily soiled. The back hinge has an old sellotape repair. The book otherwise is tight. There is a Bishopwith Public School prize label dated 1885/86 attached to the inside of the front cover. xii, pp 9 -204 pages with 40 engravings. The text is generally pretty clean and crips with just a few page with tiny fox spots and the frontispiece and vignette decorated first title page with a little pale foxing and vague thumb smudges at the edges. The book is covers Ancient Egypt, Hindustan, Greece and Rome, and the last chapter is " The Modern World ". No Dustwrapper Pictorial Cloth Hardback 12mo

[SW: Topography Caves Catacombs Ancient Egypt Hindustan Greece Rome Grotto Salt Mines Temples War Habitation Underground Cave-Temple zUkuk Topography (British) Archaeology and History Topography (non British )]

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