Robert Graves Translation (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Edge wear. Tanning along fore edges. Some rubbing and fading to covers. Spine creases.

trade paperback. Condition: used: good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDsm8vo; 315 pages; good trade paperback; ink front cover from previous owner; spine slanting; tanning pages; slight crease front cover; tips bumped; mclean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good in wrappers, a paperback. Later printing. Text clean. Corners rubbed. Readers crease on spine.

Condition: Good. Paperback, renewed, 8vo.; 1979 edition with black/red cover.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Second printing, 1967. Rare printing. Moderate cover, edge wear, discoloration. Pages good, no writing. Classic '60's cover design. A fresh and accessible translation of this first ever complete novel in recorded history. This unique translation by Robert Graves (1895-1985) a British poet, novelist, translator, and critic. His many books include the historical novels I, Claudius and Claudius the God, the autobiography Good-bye to All That, and the mythic/literary studies The White Goddess and The Greek Myths. In all of literature there are few books with the vitality of The Golden Ass. Boccaccio borrowed freely from it; and later it served both to amuse and to instruct Cervantes, Fielding, and Smollett. T. E. Lawrence carried it in his saddlebags all through the Arab Revolt, and it was Lawrence who first introduced the book to his friend Robert Graves. The story follows Lucius, a young man of good birth, as he disports himself in the cities and along the roads of Thessaly. Wonderful tale abounding in lusty incident, curious adventure and bawdy wit. 293 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

8vo, vi + 86pp. Original azure buckram in unbleached textured paper dustwrapper; open tear to lower corner towards spine reapired with archival tape. A charming copy in near-fine condition. First edition thus.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. The Twelve Caesars, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus; Robert Graves (Translation). Published by The Folio Society, 1990. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 318pp; illustrated with wood-engravings Raymond Hawthorn. Brick red cloth with gilt portrait medallions against a blue border; gilt spine titles, double page mapped endpapers. Housed in a blue slipcase. In fine, unread condition. The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire during the Principate. The subjects are Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian. It was written in 121 CE by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (called "Suetonius" by scholars) while he served as a personal secretary to the emperor Hadrian.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. 500 Pp, Including Large Index At Rear. Beige Cloth, Gilt. Illustrated Endpapers. First American Printing. Fine, No Marks Or Damage. Dust Jacket Priced $15.00, Wear, Tears And A Few Small Losses At Edges.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First edition in this translation, 238, (1) pp., pictorial stiff paper wrappers. Light wear at wrappers, age toning, good copy. 18 x 11 cm.

Stated 1st Edition. New more accurate translation from authenticated text. Nice bright tight copy in very good jacket. Scarce. 6-1/2 x 9-1/2, 86 pp, lemon endpapers, deckled fore-edge. Fine unmarked, in VeryGood+ price-clipped jacket in Brodart. Hardcover in white/black cloth boards, in white jacket.…