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  • The Songs of Sappho – Miller and Robinson – Fine Production 1925

    The Songs of Sappho – Miller and Robinson – Fine Production 1925

    A beautiful edition published by Frank-Maurice, New York in 1925.

    Longer Title … “the Songs of Sappho – Including the Recent Egyptian Discoveries – The Poems of Erinna – Greek Poems about Sappho – Ovid’s Epistle of Sappho to Phaon”. Translated by Marion Mills Miller (Editor of “The Classics – Greek and Latin”) with Greek texts prepared and annotated and literally translated in prose by David Moore Robinson, Professor in Classics, John Hopkins University.

    Large octavo, 435 pages, rough cut page edges as issued. Very good near fine copy, original green boards with quarter vellum to spine with gilt titles. Top edge richly gilt. A limited edition of 750 copies. Ten full page plates.

    Sappho (630BC – 570BC) was an archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Sappho is best known for her poems about love and women. Most of the poetry is now lost and surviving items are mainly in fragments, except for one complete poem “Ode to Aphrodite”. Little is known of Sappho’s life, although likely from a wealthy family. Sappho was exiled to Sicily around 600BC … legend surrounds her love for the ferryman Phaon.

    Sappho’s work has continued to influence writers. Beyond her poetry she is known as a symbol of love and desire between women.

    From “Old Love is Best”’ …
    “Whose soft footfall sets my heart a-bounding
    Wilder than when the clarions are sounding;
    Whose bright face hath power more to charm me
    Than Lydia’s army!”

    Finely bound beautiful Sappho – 1925

    $120.00

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  • Horace – Horatii Fiacci Opera – Munro and King – Bickers Binding – 1869

    Horace – Horatii Fiacci Opera – Munro and King – Bickers Binding – 1869

    A delightful copy of “Horace” illustrated by with well over 100 classical cameos or “gems” and bound in superb style by Bickers and Sons of London with their discrete stamp at the front.

    Published by Bell and Dalby, London in 1869. Large octavo, with 456 pages after preliminaries, the back section of the book being a lengthy and scholarly description of the said “gems”.

    The Latin text revised by Munro and the “gems” selected and detailed by King both Fellows of Trinity College Cambridge.

    Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65BC – 8 BC) known as “Horace” was a leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. This is a well-produced and scholarly edition and we learn in the preface that the “gems” are authentic, whilst earlier attempts to illustrate Horace have succumbed to using inappropriate “modernised” versions etc.

    The Bickers binding is full red morocco, spine panelled with raised bands, gilt lines to spine and boards, marbled endpapers with gilt rolled borders internally and to board edges, all page edges richly gilt. All a trifle rubbed … a solid a special binding. The shading on the right hand (front) board is our scanner not the board!

    Nice inscription on endpaper … a gift to the Rev Mayo M.A. by his “Horace” class at Fauconberg School in Beecles … the distinguished grammar school was formed by Dr Fauconberg in 1712

    Best Illustrated “Horace” in Bickers Binding

    $140.00

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  • The Long Voyage Home – Eugene O’Neil

    The Long Voyage Home – Eugene O’Neil

    Great Modern Library edition published 1946 in very if not better good condition, albeit with a simple ownership mark “H” on free end paper.

    Seven short plays by Eugene O’Neil. Includes … The Moon of the Caribees; Bound East for Cardiff; Ile; Where the Cross is Made; The Rope and our favourite “In the Zone” and of course the title play The Long Voyage Home.

    Nautical Plays for Salty Dogs

    $40.00

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  • “Somebody Loves You” – Music Score 1932 – Tobias and De Rose

    “Somebody Loves You” – Music Score 1932 – Tobias and De Rose

    Great 1930′s music score with a direct romantic message. Published by the Joe Morris Music Co, New York

    Words and music by Charles Tobias and Peter de Rose. Promoted by George Hall and his Orchestra.

    The highlight the stunning graphic cover designed by Cliff Miska.

    “I’ve learned a wonderful secret .. And you’re the one should know it too … I’ve yearned to tell you this secret … And every word I say is true” … well of course it is …..

    Bonus songs (short ones) “Carolina Moon” and “When Your Hair Has Turned to Silver”.

    Everything presented also for the popular Ukulele as well as piano and guitar ….

    $20.00

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  • I’d Climb the Highest Mountain if I knew I’d Find You – Music Score 1926 – Lee Brown and Sidney Clare

    I’d Climb the Highest Mountain if I knew I’d Find You – Music Score 1926 – Lee Brown and Sidney Clare

    Original Music Score published in 1926 by Irvin Berlin.

    A title with a meaningful message and such lovely 1920′s graphics. Also, arranged for the Ukulele tuned A,D,F#,B ….

    “I don’t know where you are … I don’t know if you still care …. blah blah … terrific …

    And, a bonus song at the rear … The Great Novelty Song sensation … “Gimme a Little Kiss Will Ya Huh?”

    $25.00

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  • The Poems of Longfellow

    The Poems of Longfellow

    A lovely Modern Library edition. The authoritative introduction has some careful underlining and annotation by a “scholar” (none in the book itself) we like it so we think it is still an attractive offer.

    Longfellow and “The Song of Hiawatha”, “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, “Voices of the Night”, “The Seaside and the Fireside” – over 700 pages of the great American poet.

    “When thou smilest, my beloved – Then my troubled heart is brightened – As in sunshine gleam the ripples – That the cold wind makes in rivers”

    Comprehensive Longfellow

    $40.00

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