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36 titles in 5 languages · every one a 6 × 9in hardcover

Ancient Greek

7 titles

ΕΥΘΥΦΡΩΝ · ΑΠΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΣΩΚΡΑΤΟΥΣ · ΚΡΙΤΩΝ

Euthyphro · Apology · Crito

Plato

Three dialogues in the original Ancient Greek, 86 pages: the trial sequence — Euthyphro before it, the Apology at it, Crito after. Their Stephanus pages run unbroken, 2a–54e. Copy-text: John Burnet, Platonis Opera I, Oxford Classical Texts, 1900–1907. Greek text only, no facing English.

6 × 9in hardcover · 86pp · Ancient Greek · casewrap

$20.99

ΦΑΙΔΩΝ

Phaedo

Plato

Plato in the original Ancient Greek, complete in 104 pages: the account of the last day of Socrates' life and of his death. Greek text only, with nothing facing it and nothing in the margin. Copy-text: John Burnet, Platonis Opera I, Oxford Classical Texts, Oxford 1900–1907. Complete.

6 × 9in hardcover · 104pp · Ancient Greek · casewrap

$21.99

Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius in the original Ancient Greek, complete in 152 pages — the Greek he actually wrote, not a Latin or English intermediary. Set on cream stock with nothing on the page but the text. Copy-text: J. H. Leopold, M. Antoninus Imperator Ad Se Ipsum, Oxford Classical Texts, 1908.

6 × 9in hardcover · 152pp · Ancient Greek · casewrap

$22.99

ΟΡΕΣΤΕΙΑ

The Oresteia

Aeschylus

Agamemnon, Choephoroi, Eumenides — the only surviving Greek trilogy, in Greek, with every speaker named. Complete in 186 pages, in the original Ancient Greek; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 186pp · Ancient Greek · casewrap

$23.99

ΑΙ ΘΗΒΑΪΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΓΩΙΔΙΑΙ

The Theban Plays

Sophocles

Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone — in Greek, speakers named, verse as verse. Complete in 260 pages, in the original Ancient Greek; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 260pp · Ancient Greek · casewrap

$25.99

Ὀδύσσεια

The Odyssey

Homer

The Odyssey in the original Ancient Greek, complete in 508 pages — twenty-four books entire. The hexameter is set as verse, with the poem's own line breaks rather than reflowed as prose, and no English faces it. Copy-text: A. T. Murray, Homer: The Odyssey, Loeb Classical Library, London/New York 1919. The Greek text only.

6 × 9in hardcover · 508pp · Ancient Greek · casewrap

$31.99

Ἰλιάς

The Iliad

Homer

The Iliad in the original Ancient Greek, complete in 650 pages — all twenty-four books. The hexameter is set as verse, with the poem's own line breaks rather than reflowed as prose, and no English runs alongside it. Copy-text: Thomas W. Allen, Homeri Ilias, Oxford Classical Texts, 1931.

6 × 9in hardcover · 650pp · Ancient Greek · casewrap

$35.99

Latin

7 titles

Liber Genesis

Genesis

Vulgata Clementina

Genesis in Latin, complete in 120 pages — all fifty chapters. The Latin alone: no English in the volume, no apparatus in the margin, nothing on the cream page but the text. This is the book to read if you want the Vulgate's own words. Copy-text: Vulgata Clementina, 1598.

6 × 9in hardcover · 120pp · Latin · casewrap

$21.99

De Officiis

On Duties

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cicero in the original Latin, complete in 174 pages — three books entire. The Latin text with no English facing it and nothing in the margin. Copy-text: Holden, Cambridge 1899, for Books II and III; the edition behind Book I is not recorded.

6 × 9in hardcover · 174pp · Latin · casewrap

$23.99

COMMENTARII DE BELLO GALLICO

Commentaries on the Gallic War

Julius Caesar

Caesar’s eight books on the conquest of Gaul — the first Latin most students meet — printed whole and unannotated. Complete in 230 pages, in the original Latin; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 230pp · Latin · casewrap

$24.99

DE RERVM NATVRA

On the Nature of Things

Lucretius

Six books of Epicurean physics in hexameters — atoms, void, the fear of death and the plague at Athens — in the Latin. Complete in 308 pages, in the original Latin; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 308pp · Latin · casewrap

$26.99

Confessiones

Confessions

Augustine of Hippo

Augustine in the original Latin, complete in 330 pages — all thirteen books, not an abridgement. The Latin alone, with no English facing it and nothing in the margin to look at instead. Copy-text: Latin Wikisource, following the vulgate Benedictine/Maurist text. Thirteen books complete.

6 × 9in hardcover · 330pp · Latin · casewrap

$27.99

Aeneis

The Aeneid

Virgil

Virgil in the original Latin, complete in 412 pages — twelve books entire. The hexameter is set as verse, with the poem's own line breaks rather than reflowed as prose, and no English runs beside it. Copy-text: J. B. Greenough, The Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Virgil, Ginn and Company, Boston 1881.

6 × 9in hardcover · 412pp · Latin · casewrap

$29.99

METAMORPHOSES

Metamorphoses

Ovid

Ovid’s fifteen books of changes, from chaos to the apotheosis of Caesar — 11,927 lines, in the Latin. Complete in 498 pages, in the original Latin; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 498pp · Latin · casewrap

$31.99

French

7 titles

CANDIDE, OU L’OPTIMISME

Candide, or Optimism

Voltaire

Voltaire’s tale of the best of all possible worlds, thirty chapters, in the French of the Garnier edition. Complete in 132 pages, in the original French; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 132pp · French · casewrap

$21.99

Contes

Tales

Charles Perrault

Perrault's tales in the original French, eleven in all — both the prose and the verse. 160 pages. The eight prose tales follow Histoires ou Contes du temps passé; the copy-text is recorded per tale rather than per volume. French only, with no English retelling alongside.

6 × 9in hardcover · 160pp · French · casewrap

$22.99

Du contrat social

The Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rousseau in the original French, complete and unabridged in 176 pages. No facing English, no notes crowding the margin — the French text set to be read straight through on cream stock. Copy-text: Du contract social, Marc Michel Rey, Amsterdam, MDCCLXII — the first edition.

6 × 9in hardcover · 176pp · French · casewrap

$23.99

LES FLEURS DU MAL

The Flowers of Evil

Charles Baudelaire

The hundred poems of the 1857 first edition, in their original order and sections, in French. Complete in 188 pages, in the original French; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 188pp · French · casewrap

$23.99

FABLES

Fables

Jean de La Fontaine

All twelve books of the Fables — every fable, dedication and epilogue — in French, set as verse. Complete in 578 pages, in the original French; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 578pp · French · casewrap

$33.99

De la démocratie en Amérique — 1840

Democracy in America — 1840

Alexis de Tocqueville

Tocqueville's 1840 work in the original French, complete in 638 pages. It is its own book, not the back half of the 1835 — sold separately for that reason. Copy-text: De la démocratie en Amérique, douzième édition, Pagnerre, Paris 1848 — the last edition revised in Tocqueville's lifetime.

6 × 9in hardcover · 638pp · French · casewrap

$34.99

De la démocratie en Amérique — 1835

Democracy in America — 1835

Alexis de Tocqueville

Tocqueville's 1835 work in the original French, complete in 782 pages. Sold on its own: 1835 and 1840 are two works, not two halves of one, and this volume is the whole of the first. Copy-text: De la démocratie en Amérique, douzième édition, Pagnerre, Paris 1848 — the last edition revised in Tocqueville's lifetime.

6 × 9in hardcover · 782pp · French · casewrap

$38.99

German

7 titles

Die Verwandlung

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

Kafka's novella in the German he wrote it in, complete and unabridged in 92 pages. No facing translation, no apparatus — the German text on a cream page and nothing else competing with it. Copy-text: first edition, Kurt Wolff Verlag, Leipzig 1915 (Der jüngste Tag 22/23).

6 × 9in hardcover · 92pp · German · casewrap

$20.99

FAUST I

Faust, Part One

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The 1808 Faust in Goethe’s spelling — Zueignung to Kerker — with every speaker named and every stanza kept. Complete in 270 pages, in the original German; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 270pp · German · casewrap

$25.99

Ein Hungerkünstler

A Hunger Artist — Four Stories

Franz Kafka

Kafka's four late stories in the original German, complete in 96 pages — the volume as he assembled it, not a selection made afterwards. Copy-text: Ein Hungerkünstler. Vier Geschichten, Verlag Die Schmiede, Berlin 1924 — the last book Kafka prepared himself. All four stories.

6 × 9in hardcover · 96pp · German · casewrap

$20.99

MANIFEST DER KOMMUNISTISCHEN PARTEI · SCHRIFTEN 1844–1848

The Communist Manifesto · Writings 1844–1848

Karl Marx · Friedrich Engels

The Manifesto with the writings that led to it — the Hegel introduction, On the Jewish Question, Engels’s Outlines and Condition of England, the Theses on Feuerbach — in German. Complete in 204 pages, in the original German; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 204pp · German · casewrap

$23.99

FAUST II

Faust, Part Two

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The five acts of the second part, published in the year of Goethe’s death, in the German of the Ausgabe letzter Hand. Complete in 388 pages, in the original German; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 388pp · German · casewrap

$28.99

KINDER- UND HAUSMÄRCHEN I

Children’s and Household Tales I

Brothers Grimm

Tales 1–86 of the seventh, final edition — Der Froschkönig to Der Fuchs und die Gänse — in the Grimms’ German. Complete in 520 pages, in the original German; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 520pp · German · casewrap

$31.99

KINDER- UND HAUSMÄRCHEN II

Children’s and Household Tales II

Brothers Grimm

Tales 87–200 and the ten Kinderlegenden of the 1857 edition, in German, dialect tales included. Complete in 604 pages, in the original German; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 604pp · German · casewrap

$34.99

Arabic

8 titles

حي بن يقظان

Hayy ibn Yaqzan

Ibn Tufayl

Ibn Tufayl’s philosophical novel in the original Arabic, complete in 90 pages: a child raised alone on an equatorial island reasons his way from nothing to a complete metaphysics, with no teacher, book or language. It reached Latin in 1671 as Philosophus Autodidactus. Text from Arabic Wikisource.

6 × 9in hardcover · 90pp · Arabic · casewrap

$20.99

الأجنحة المتكسرة

The Broken Wings

Kahlil Gibran

Gibran's early novella in the original Arabic, complete in 104 pages. The book is imposed to open right to left, so the spine falls where an Arabic reader expects it and the text runs as the language runs. No English anywhere in the volume. Copy-text: Gibran, first edition 1912.

6 × 9in hardcover · 104pp · Arabic · casewrap

$21.99

المنقذ من الضلال · أيها الولد · مشكاة الأنوار

Deliverance from Error · O Youth · The Niche of Lights

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

Three works by al-Ghazali in the original Arabic, complete in 128 pages: al-Munqidh min al-Dalal, on losing his certainty and leaving the most celebrated chair in Baghdad to test theology, philosophy, Ismaili authority and Sufism; Ayyuha al-Walad, a letter to a student; and Mishkat al-Anwar, on the Verse of Light. Text from Arabic Wikisource.

6 × 9in hardcover · 128pp · Arabic · casewrap

$21.99

كليلة ودمنة

Kalila and Dimna

Ibn al-Muqaffa‘

Ibn al-Muqaffa‘’s animal fables in the original Arabic, complete in 238 pages — all nineteen chapters. Made from a lost Middle Persian version of the Sanskrit Panchatantra, and from this Arabic they passed into Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Spanish and eventually La Fontaine. Text from Arabic Wikisource.

6 × 9in hardcover · 238pp · Arabic · casewrap

$24.99

طوق الحمامة

The Ring of the Dove

Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi

Ibn Hazm’s treatise on love in the original Arabic, complete in 282 pages — all thirty-two chapters. Written in Muslim Spain, it anatomises love into its signs, its causes and its disasters, illustrated throughout from what he saw in Córdoba. It survives in a single manuscript. Text from Arabic Wikisource.

6 × 9in hardcover · 282pp · Arabic · casewrap

$25.99

البخلاء

The Book of Misers

al-Jahiz

Al-Jahiz’s book of misers in the original Arabic, complete in 308 pages: anecdotes, letters and speeches by and about the mean, from the most celebrated prose stylist of the Abbasid age. It is the earliest sustained portrait of ordinary urban life in Basra and Baghdad that survives. Text from Arabic Wikisource.

6 × 9in hardcover · 308pp · Arabic · casewrap

$26.99

رسالة الغفران

The Epistle of Forgiveness

al-Maʿarrī

The blind poet’s eleventh-century tour of paradise and hell in the company of the poets — a work Dante would have recognised — in Arabic. Complete in 358 pages, in the original Arabic; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 358pp · Arabic · casewrap

$27.99

مقامات الحريري

The Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī

al-Ḥarīrī

Fifty assemblies of rhymed prose and verse around the rogue Abū Zayd — the most admired display of the Arabic language after the Qurʾān. Complete in 390 pages, in the original Arabic; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 390pp · Arabic · casewrap

$28.99