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1	History of Love more books like this by Nicole Krauss The illuminating national bestseller: "Vertiginously exciting...vibrantly imagined.... Krauss is] a prodigious talent."--Janet Maslin, "New York Times" A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. Leo Gursky is just about surviving, tapping his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Book of Air and Shadows more books like this by Michael Gruber Hidden in the binding of a charred and ruined book is a cache of letters. They are encrypted and the key to unlocking the mysterious code has been lost for 400 years. If the letters are read, they will lead to one of the most valuable items in the history of the world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.63! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read more books like this by Stuart Kelly In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it's sobering to realize that some of the world's greatest prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty, wry, and unique new book rectifies that wrong. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.71! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Book of Air and Shadows LP more books like this by Michael Gruber "Tap-tapping the keys and out come the words on this little screen, and who will read them I hardly know. I could be dead by the time anyone actually gets to read them, as dead as, say, Tolstoy. Or Shakespeare. Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?" These are the words of Jake Mishkin, whose seemingly innocent job ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.94! \| SVS
5	M. Tullius Cicero, the Fragmentary Speeches: An Edition with Commentary more books like this by Marcus Tullius Cicero This volume contains testimonia and fragments of Cicero's speeches that circulated in antiquity but which have since been lost. This edition includes the fragmenta incertae sedis and an appendix on falsely identified oratorical fragments. see all copies from $34.65! new only from $51.54! \| SVS
6	Cosmic and Meta-Cosmic Theology in Aristotle's Lost Dialogues more books like this by A P Bos see all copies from $149.86! new only from $149.86!
7	The Lost Literature of Medieval England more books like this by R. M. Wilson see all copies from $6.88! first editions
8	The Fragmentary Latin Poets: Edited with Commentary more books like this by Edward Courtney (Commentaries by) To understand fully the development of Latin poetry, one has to consider not only the prominent figures whose works survive entire but also the writers known to us only in fragments, usually small, from quotations. The fragments of the non-dramatic poets have been collected by Baehrens, Morel, and Buchner, but only a few have ever received a ... see all copies from $65.16! new only from $79.91!
9	Machon: The Fragments more books like this by A S F Gow (Editor), Machon, Michael Reeve (Editor) Machon was a writer of Comedies who lived and worked in Alexandria in the middle of the third century B.C. All of his work that survives is preserved in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus who, besides two fragments of Comedies of no great importance, quotes also 462 verses from a collection of anecdotes which Machon called Xpeiai. These anecdotes ... see all copies from $30.11! new only from $30.11! \| SVS
10	Fragments of Roman Poetry C.60 BC-Ad 20 more books like this by Adrian S Hollis (Editor) This book aims to fill in the literary history of the greatest period of Latin poetry, about 60 BC to AD 20. Catullus (by a slender thread) has survived, but later contemporaries valued his friend Calvus just as highly; comparison of the two reveals an extraordinarily close relationship. Horace mentions Varius Rufus in the same breath as Virgil. ... see all copies from $97.45! new only from $144.16!
11	Lost Plays of Shakespeare's Age more books like this by Charles Jasper Sisson see all copies from $33.00! new only from $134.61! \| first editions
12	The Medieval Theater in Castile more books like this by Charlotte Stern see all copies from $15.00! new only from $40.88! \| first editions
13	Bion of Smyrna: The Fragments and the Adonis more books like this by J. D. Reed (Editor), Bion, J. D. Re The work of Bion of Smyrna, the late Hellenistic writer of bucolic poetry, survives in seventeen fragments and the longer Epitaph on Adonis. In this edition, J. D. Reed presents a Greek text of the poems together with a facing translation. The substantial introduction covers Bion's place in the bucolic tradition, his reinterpretation of ritual and ... see all copies from $68.21! new only from $106.05!
14	Sappho, a Garland: The Poems and Fragments of Sappho more books like this by Sappho, Jim Powell (Translator) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.38! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Ennius Perennis: The Annals and Beyond more books like this by William Fitzgerald (Editor), Emily Gowers (Editor) "Ennius Perennis: the Annals and Beyond" is a collection of eight essays by an international group of scholars on different aspects of the poetry and legacy of Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC). Ennius' epic poem the "Annals" and his many other works, including tragedies, satires and epigrams, survive only in mystifying fragments, but his influence on ... see all copies from $102.39! new only from $102.39!
16 view cover	Bion of Smyrna: The Fragments and the Adonis more books like this by Bion, J D Reed (Editor) The work of Bion of Smyrna, the late Hellenistic writer of bucolic poetry, survives in seventeen fragments and the longer Epitaph on Adonis. In this edition, J. D. Reed presents a Greek text of the poems together with a facing translation. The substantial introduction covers Bion's place in the bucolic tradition, his reinterpretation of ritual and ... see all copies from $35.25! new only from $35.25! \| SVS
17 view cover	Greek Epic Fragments: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC more books like this by Thomas Edward Jordan, Martin L West (Editor) Greek epics of the archaic period include poems that narrate a particular heroic episode or series of episodes and poems that recount the long-term history of families or peoples. They are an important source of mythological record. This volume contains examples of this poetry that have come down to us. The heroic epic is represented by poems ... see all copies from $23.28! new only from $23.28!
18 view cover	Die Fragmente Der Griechischen Historiker Continued more books like this by Felix Jacoby, G Schepens (Editor) The first in a series of eight volumes, this text presents fragmentary biographical Greek texts of the 5th and 4th centuries BC. Before biography emerged as a literary genre of its own at the beginning of the Hellenistic period, biographical interest already found expression in various forms of literature. The testimonia and fragmenta edited, ... see all copies from $213.34! new only from $213.34!
19 view cover	Alexis: The Fragments: A Commentary more books like this by W Geoffrey Arnott This is the first detailed commentary to be compiled on the fragments of the Greek comic poet Alexis. Alexis seems to have had an important effect on the development of Greek New Comedy, both in the presentation and choice of characters and in the structuring of the type of New-Comedy plot associated in particular with Menander. Professor Arnott's ... see all copies from $232.07! new only from $232.07!
20	Selected Fragmentary Plays more books like this by Euripides The fragmentary plays of Euripides are a body of texts still regularly increasing in number and extent. They are of very great interest in themselves, apart from the significant aid they give to the fuller appreciation of the surviving complete plays. This two-volume edition brings together for the first time for English readers the more ... see all copies from $74.94!
21 view cover	Archaic Latin Verse more books like this by Mario Erasmo Text and commentary of the earliest surviving Latin work. Selections from oral verse, Livius, Naevius, Ennius, and others (Caecilius, Accius, Pacuvius, and Lucilius). see all copies from $40.05! new only from $40.05!
22	The Fragmentary Latin Poets more books like this by Edward Courtney (Designer) To fully understand to development of Latin poetry, one has to consider not only the prominent figures whose entire works survive, but also the writers known to us only in fragments, usually small, from quotations. The fragments of the non-dramatic poets have been collected by Baehrens, Morel and Buechner, but only a few have ever received a ... see all copies from $150.00!
23 view cover	C. NR. 64-105: Kommentar more books like this by Felix Jacoby see all copies from $155.69! new only from $155.69!
24	The mythical poets of Greece more books like this by Jeno Platthy see all copies from $36.00!
25 view cover	Tragicorvm Graecorvm: Fragmenta Selecta more books like this by J Diggle (Editor) The lost plays of the Greek tragic poets are preserved in fragmentary form only. This volume presents the texts of their most interesting and substantial parts with full apparatus criticus. For the larger part it consists of fragments of Euripides, including the extensive remains of such plays as Antiope, Erechtheus, Phaethon, and Hypsipyle. Also ... see all copies from $44.08! new only from $44.08! \| SVS

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