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Popol Vuh - The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings

Revised and Expanded

translated by Dennis Tedlock

Simon & Schuster, 1996

softcover, good condition

some highlighting, 388 pages

$5.95 plus media mail shipping

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Lost Civilizations

by Donald P. Ryan, Ph.D

Alpha Books, 1999

softcover, 350 pages

like new condition

remainder mark on bottom of book

$6.95 plus media mail shipping

The X Ray Picture Book of Big Buildings of the Ancient World

by Joanne Jessop

created and designed by David Salariya

Franklin Watts, 1993

softcover, 48 pages

very good condition - no markings

small crease on bottom of back cover

$4.75 plus media mail shipping

Origins - What New Discoveries Reveal About the Emergence of Our Species and its Possible Future

by Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin

E.P. Dutton, New York, 1978

hardcover, 48 pages

excellent condition - all pages clean and crisp and

intact - back of dustjacket shows some scuffing

$4.50 plus media mail shipping

Ancient Rome - Eyewitness Books

written by Simon James

Alfred A. Knopf Books, 1990

hardcover, 48 pages

good condition - no markings

bottom edges of cover are bumped

beautiful illustrations

$3.50 plus media mail shipping

Mummies

by Richard A. Martin

new edition revised and edited by David P. Silverman

Field Museum of Natural History,

Popular Series, Anthropology, Number 36

softcover - pamphlet style book, 1976, excellent resource with eleven plates and accompanying descriptions

good condition - no markings

back cover shows some wear, tiny pen mark on front cover

$3.50 plus media mail shipping

The Roman Empire - Economy, Society, and Culture

by Peter Garnsey & Richard Saller

University of California Press, 1987

231 pages, softcover

underlining and notes throughout

all pages intact

our price:   $3.50 plus media mail shipping

Sallust - The Jugurthine War / The Conspiracy of Catiline

Translated with an Introduction by S.A. Handford

Penguin Books, 1963

softcover,  good condition, 201 pages

pencil markings and underlinings throughout

pages are intact

$3.50 plus media mail shipping

Life Nature Library - Early Man

by F. Clark Howell and the Editors of Time-Life Books, 1972

200 pages, good condition

our price:   $3.50 plus media mail shipping

Greece -  Vol ll - Legendary Grece - Grecian History to the Reign of Peisistratus at Athens

by George Grote, Esq. - reprinted from the Second London Edition

Peter Fenelon Collier & Son, 1901

hardcover, 466 pages

cover is badly soiled as shown in photo

interior pages are without markings and intact

our price:   $10.95 plus media mail shipping

Iliad and the Odyssey - The Heroic Story of the Trojan War - The Fabulous Adventures of Odysseus

A Giant Golden Book - Deluxe Edition

adapted from the Greek Classics of Homer by Jane Werner Watson - collector’s item

Simon & Schuster, 1956

oversized vintage hardcover, 96 pages

all pages without markings and intact

exterior of spine has been taped and some of

plastic clear coating on the cover has worn off

our price:   $34.95 plus media mail shipping

The Roman Republic - Second Edition

by Michael Crawford

Harvard University Press, 1992

softcover, 240 pages

all pages are intact

some underlining and notes - otherwise good

our price:   $3.50 plus media mail shipping

The Roman Empire - Second Edition

by Colin Wells

Harvard University Press, 1997

softcover, 366 pages

all pages are intact

some underlining and notes- otherwise good

our price:   $4.50 plus media mail shipping

Ten Plays by Euripedes

translated by Moses Hadas and John Mclean

Bantam Books, 1981

softcover, 358 pages   

minimal pencil underlining, otherwise good

our price: $3.50  plus media mail shipping

The Complete Plays of Sophocles

edited and with an introduction by Moses Hadas

Bantam Books, 1982

softcover, 261 pages   

minimal pencil underlining, otherwise good

our price: $3.50  plus media mail shipping

Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War

translated by Moses Hadas and John Mclean

Penguin Classics, 1972

softcover, 648 pages   

minimal pencil underlining, otherwise good

our price: $3.75  plus media mail shipping

Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives

translated with an introduction by Ian Scott-Kilvert, Penguin Books, 1960

softcover, 320 pages   

minimal pencil underlining, otherwise good

our price: $3.50  plus media mail shipping

Hippocratic Writings

edited with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd

translated by J. Chadwick and W.N. Mann

Penguin Books, 1983

softcover, 380 pages   

minimal pencil underlining, otherwise good

our price: $3.50  plus media mail shipping

Ancient Greece From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times

by Thomas R. Martin

Yale University Press, 2000

softcover, 254 pages   

no writing or marks - like new

our price: $7.95 plus media mail shipping

Aeschylus - The Oresteia

translated by Hugh Lloyd-Jones

University of California Press, 1993

softcover, 275 pages   

front cover has small crease as shown in photo

some pencil underlining, otherwise good

our price: $5.95  plus media mail shipping

Great Dialogues of Plato

translated by W.H.D. Rouse

Mentor Book from new American Library, 1956

vintage softcover, 525 pages   

interior pages - no markings and intact

crease on front cover, spine is soiled

our price: $3.50  plus media mail shipping

Appian - The Civil Wars

translated with an introduction by John Carter Penguin Books, 1996

softcover, 436 pages   

some pencil underlining, otherwise good

our price: $4.50 plus media mail shipping

Prehistory - Australopithecus and Mammoth Hunters

by Jean-Jacques Barloy

Barron’s, 1987

softcover, 78 pages   

good condition

our price: $3.95  plus media mail shipping

Aristophanes - Lysistrata/The Acharnians/

The Clouds

translated with an Introduction by

Alan H. Sommerstein

Penguin Books, 1973

vintage softcover, 255  pages   

some light pencil markings

our price: $3.50  plus media mail shipping

Ovid The Metamorphoses

translated and with an Introduction by Mary M. Innes

Penguin Books, 1977

vintage softcover, 364 pages   

interior pages - only six pages have markings

pages are tanned due to age

our price: $3.50  plus media mail shipping

Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War

translated by Rex Warner with an Introduction and Notes by M.I. Finley

Penguin Classics, 1975

vintage softcover, 525 pages   

interior pages - intact and without markings or

highlighting

pages and inside of cover are tanned due to age

worn around edges, some light red stains towards

end of book

our price:  $3.50  plus media mail shipping

Polybius - The Rise of the Roman Empire

translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert

Penguin Classics, 1979

vintage softcover, 574 pages   

some light pencil markings

pages and inside of cover are tanned due to age

worn around edges, cover has some creasing

our price:  $4.50  plus media mail shipping

Beyond Stonehenge

by Gerald S. Hawkins

Harper & Row Publishers, 1973

First Edition, stated

vintage hardcover, 318 pages

good condition, no markings or highlighting

pages are clean and intact

our price: $7.95  plus media mail shipping

Life Young Readers Library - Early Man

by F. Clark Howell and the Editors of Time-Life Books, 1970

128 pages, good condition

no writing on pages, all pages are intact

our price:   $3.50 plus media mail shipping

Alexander the Great

by John Gunther

Random House, 1953,

Landmark Books - former school book

hardcover,  182 pages, no dust jacket

missing last page of the index

caricature of Little Orphan Annie scribbled on back of title page, markings on two pages of book

our price:   $3.95 plus media mail shipping

The Time Traveller Book of Rome & Romans

by Heather Amery and Patricia Vanags

Usborne Publishing, 1976

hardcover, 32 pages,

great illustrations with imaginary characters

former library book

interior pages are without notes or highlights

good condition, 1994

our price:   $3.50 plus media mail shipping

The Edicts of Asoka

edited and translated by N.A. Nikam and Richard McKeon

University of Chicago Press, 1978

softcover, 69 pages

some notes and underlining

our price:   $3.50 plus media mail shipping

Mysteries of the Ancient World

National Geographic Society, 1979

224 pages,  very good condition considering age

vintage hardcover

no writings or marks, all pages intact

our price:   $7.95 plus media mail shipping

Gods of the Cataclysm - A Revolutionary Investigation of the Cultures of the World Before and After The Great Flood

by Hugh Fox

Harper’s Magazine Press, 1976

First Edition stated - hardcover, 301 pages

all pages are intact, mylar dustjacket

former owner’s name & address stamped on first page -  no underlining or notes

some spotting on back of inside cover

our price:   $3.95 plus media mail shipping

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Why Did It Collapse? - Problems in American Civilization

by Donald Kagan

D.C. Heath & Company, 1962

softcover - 99 pages

pages are without markings and are all intact

back cover has crease

$3.95 plus media mail shipping

The Burial at Thebes - A version of Sophocles’ Antigone

by Seamus Heaney

Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2004

softcover-  very good condition

79 pages - some light red pencil markings

on only four pages

remainder dot on bottom of book

our price:  $8.95 plus media mail shipping

The World of the Ancient Maya -

second edition

by John S. Henderson

hardcover -  like new condition

dustjacket has tiny tear

Cornell University Press, 1997

329 pages   

our price:   $14.95  plus media mail shipping