Marquez, Gabriel Garc?a: (Rabassa, Gregory, trans.:) One Hundred Years of Solitude. New York: Harper and Row, 1970. First English-language edition. 8vo., pp.[viii], 422. Dark Green cloth, gilt title to spine, fore-edge untrimmed, green endpapers. Endcaps a little creased, a couple of tiny greyish marks to upper board, edges of text block a little foxed, front paste-down discoloured where it has been in contact with the dust jacket, very good. Second state dust jacket (full stop instead of an exclamation mark after 'Latin America' on the front flap), price-clipped, a little worn at head and tail of spine, slightly rubbed particularly to the rear board, still very good overall. Book label of SU Libreria, Carlos G. Liebmann, Quito - Guayaquil. Karl Wilhelm Liebmann (1900-1985) arrived in Ecuador with his family in 1938, having fled the persecution of Jewish people in his native Germany. His changed his name and established a successful publishing business and bookshop, SU Libreria, which continued until his death in 1985. First edition of the English translation that brought M?rquez's work to an international audience. First published in the original Spanish as Cien a?os de soledad in May of 1967 in Buenos Aires by Editorial Sudamericana. Ref: 54973show full image..
Marriage, Margaret & Ernest: The Sculptures of Chartres Cathedral. Les sculptures de la cath?drale de Chartres. Cambridge University Press, 1909. First edition. 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 270 + illustrated frontispiece, view of Chartres and 120 plates. Frontispiece slightly browned, else a very good copy. Blue cloth, title gilt to spine, very good. Ref: 53467
[Martial] Martialis, Marcus Valerius: (Farnaby, Thomas, ed.:) Epigrammata. Amsterdami [Amsterdam]: Ex officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana, 1670. 12mo., pp.456. Illustrated title page, engraved initials and end-pieces. Internally very clean. Contemporary vellum school prize binding, title inked to spine, plain gilt borders, gilt centrepiece with arms of Amersfoot. Vellum a little greyed with some small spots and stains, ties lost, slight separation at gutter between ffep and title-page but sewing all intact, very good. Thomas Farnaby (1574/5?1647) was a celebrated schoolteacher and grammarian. 'The success of his establishment allowed Farnaby to devote himself to a long-held obsession: the systemization of the grammatical principles of classical Latin and Greek in print. Commencing with the satires of Juvenal and Persius (1612), he annotated many of the classical authors?Seneca, Martial, Lucan, Ovid, Virgil, and Terence?in a manner intended to render their works intelligible to schoolboys [...] He also corresponded with the Dutch intellectuals Gerardus Johannes Vossius and Daniel Heinsius, both of whom acknowledged their own debts to his learning.' (ODNB) His edition of Martial first appeared in London in 1615. Schweiger 598; Spoelder 4. Ref: 54551show full image..
[Martial] Martialis, Marcus Valerius: (Hay, William, ed.:) Epigrammata Selecta [?] Select epigrams of Martial. Translated and imitated by William Hay, Esq; with an appendix of some by Cowley, and other hands. London: printed for R. And J. Dodsley in Pall-mall, 1755. 1755. 12mo., pp. [xii], 139 (i.e. 239), [xxv]. Parallel Latin and English texts. Two final leaves of advertisements. A little toned, very good. Contemporary brown calf, gilt spine with label, gilt borders to boards edges sprinkled red. Bookplate to front pastedown, initials S and B twined together by a rope ampersand, beneath the coronet of an earl. William Hay (1695?1755) was a writer and Whig politician, sitting in the Commons from 1734 to 1755. The 'Advertisement' preceding the text notes that his edition was also available in an English-only 8vo. volume, 'that they may not be encumbered with the Latin, who do not understand it.' ESTC T94257 Ref: 54216show full image..
Martin, George R. R.: A Dance with Dragons. London: Harper Voyager, 2011. First edition thus, first printing, signed by the author. Heavy 8vo., pp.[xiv], 1184. Dark and light blue textured cloth, gilt title to spine, strip of gilt emblems to each board along fore-edge, blue ribbon bookmark. Single scrape to spine approx. 3 x 2.5cm, which has been partially repaired. Very good indeed. Matching blue cloth slipcase with gilt dragon emblem to upper side (no dust jacket as issued), a little rubbed but near fine. Special signed, slipcased edition of the fifth book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series. Ref: 54869show full image..
Martin, S. Rebecca: The Art of Contact: Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. First edition. Large 8vo., pp. x, 282 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54357
Martinez de Toledo, Alonso: (Naylor, Eric W. & Rank, Jerry R., ed. & trans.:) The Archpriest of Talavera: Dealing with the Vices of Wicked Women and the Complexions of Men. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2013. 8vo., pp. 230. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 432 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series. Ref: 53712
Massie, Robert K.: Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman. London: Head of Zeus Ltd, 2012. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiii, 625 + plates. Maps. Hardback: cream cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A little foxing towards edges, more to endpapers, light signs of use, otherwise very good. Ref: 54241
Mastrangelo, Marc: The Roman Self in Late Antiquity: Prudentius and the Poetics of the Soul. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 259. Hardback: burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54301
Matyszak, Philip: Sertorius and the Struggle for Spain. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2021. 8vo., pp. xviii, 182 + plates. Maps. Paperback. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. First published 2013. Ref: 54511
