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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. Hardcover. xvi, 166p., clothbacked boards in two fabrics, titled gilt on black, glossy maroon dust jacket. Entirely clean and sound, a fine copy. Discussion of Porphyry's Life of Plotinus and Eusebius' Life of Origen.

Monaco: Printed by the Monaco Printing Office, 1910. Pamphlet. 15p., self-wraps decorated with cover photos and a third within, presswork on light alkaline stock, a tiny souvenir brochure (5.5x3.5 inches) fastened with a single staple (in good shape). Mildly edgeworn with a turned rear corner-tip, good copy of a fragile item.

Lancaster, PA: the Celator, 2003. Twelve issues of the magazine devoted to classical numismatics. Standard length 60 pages; very good in staplebound wraps, 8.5x11 inches. Illustrated articles include topics in Roman and Greek coinage, Byzantium, Biblical coins, historical events illustrated through numismatics, counterfeits, and more.

Lancaster, PA: the Celator, 2000. Twelve issues of the magazine devoted to classical numismatics. Standard length 60 pages; good to very good in staplebound wraps, 8.5x11 inches; no. 4 has wear at top of spine. Illustrated articles include topics in Roman and Greek coinage, Byzantium, Biblical coins, historical events illustrated through numismatics, coins minted in year zero, and more.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960. Hardcover. 141p., very good condition in a shelf worn dj with a few closed tears.

Brooklyn: the museum, 1971. Hardcover. xxiii, 101p., line map and a few diagrams, color and b&w exhibit photography on coated paperstock, first edition cloth boards gilt on printed brown labels, a fine unblemished copy. Wilbour monographs - II.

npl: Ente Nazionale Industrie Turistiche, Ferrovie Dello Stato, 1934. Pamphlet. [46]p., wraps, illus., light handling wear, else very good condition. Cover title: "Pompei, Herculaneum

npl: Ente Nazionale Industrie Turistiche, Ferrovie Dello Stato, 1934. Pamphlet. [22]p., wraps, illus., light handling wear, else very good condition. Cover title: "Ostia

Scarborough, ON: Catalyst, 1977. Pamphlet. [16p] 5.5x8.5 inches, limited to 300 copies, this copy being one of 26 lettered and signed by Hopkins, very good in stapled stiff black wraps & gray dust jacket, mild toning to edges of covers and ghost of a removed label. Poetry by the Roman poet from Hispania adapted by Hopkins and originally published in a limited edition in 1974.

Norman OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977. Hardcover. vii, 327p., illustrated with b&w line maps and charts, hardbound first edition cloth boards in dust jacket. Slightest edgewear, entirely clean and sound, a near-fine copy. Frederick Jackson Turner's famous thesis applied to ancient Rome, North Africa, Latin America and the Philippines, and to migration and ethnic studies. "Today Turner would scarcely recognize his frontier concept..

New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, 1957. Pamphlet. Unpaginated preliminaries, 46p., coated paperstock throughout with scattered b&w exhibit photos in-text, booklet in 6x9 inch stapled printed blue wraps. A bottom-edge dampstain affects every leaf and cover margin, staples are rusted with migration, a fair-to-good copy. Has no markings of any kind, nor a sales-result flyer. Sale number 1733; exhibition from Saturday, February 9 to date of sale.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004. Hardcover. 290p., map, near-fine first edition, first printing stated in boards and bright unclipped dj. Roma sub Rosa.

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1922. Pamphlet. 63p., light blue stapled wraps, 3.5x5 inches, wraps lightly toned along edges, pages evenly toned else very good condition. Little Blue Book / Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 281.

Zaragoza: Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología [Universidad de Zaragoza], 1974. 53p., wraps, texts exclusively in Spanish and classical Latin; covers edgeworn, endpapers mildly foxed, a good to very good copy. On Marcus Aemilius Lepidus in Spain, including citations of ancient Greek and Latin texts, and images of his coinage and a bust.

Paris: Ingenia, Constructions de Precision, 1950. Cardboard Covers. 4p., giant cardstock leaves (11.5x16.5 inches) printed recto-only in vivid colors (Roman interior decoration wasn't subtle), enclosed in a doubly-giant folder printed two-colors in French and Latin, francophone instructions for assembling a tiny cardboard villa (lotsa rooms) around gardens and pools. No perforations, you or your kid must be handy with scissors. Condition of plates is quite good, even very good if images are scissored and marginal scraps thrown away; condition of outer wrap however is poor to fair, with heavy dust-soil and foxing. Two corner-tips bear repellent mildew. As is, "with all faults", item retains some charm despite drawbacks.

New York: American Numismatic Society, 1964. 115p.; very good paperback. Numismatic Notes and Monographs No. 151.

New York: PictureBox, 2012. Staplebound. 32p., illus, wraps. Signed and numbered edition of 300. Old price sticker on upper right corner of front cover. The first printing of the first part of a graphic novel about a painter's assistant in Pompeii just before the eruption of Vesuvius. The complete graphic novel was released in 2013. Santoro's work has been exhibited at the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy.

London: Cecil Palmer, 1926. Hardcover. 256p., numerous b&w line-drawn illustrations both fullpage and vignette, hardbound in 7.5x5 inch terracotta cloth boards decorated with a sketch in black. Front cover, the unconscious humor of it our selling point, is quite presentable and appears undamaged, but its verso (pastedown side) shows a serious crack. Spine panel, back cover and textblock edges are spotted and soiled, preliminaries fore & aft are badly foxed (main text hardly foxed at all). A fair-only copy. FYI, text is quite readable; Harper had already published a number of UK guidebooks and was an excellent observer of urban England.

New York: Popular Library, 1961. Paperback. 192p., very good first mass-market paperback edition in pictorial wraps. Popular Giant G528. Originally published in hardcover in 1956. A racy tale of Renaissance Rome featuring a Daughter of Joy in the caves of the Colosseum.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1939. 286p., hardcover, inscribed by the author using his initials, occasional minor pencil marginalia, otherwise very good. Discussion of ancient China and the Roman Empire.