A companion volume to the Larousse Encyclopedias of Prehistoric and Ancient Art and Byzantine and Medieval Art edited by M. Huyghe, the former curator of the Louvre. Here once again, densely illustrated and intensively indexed, this reference work achieves a detailed, visual panorama of these centuries in which spiritual and material security contributed to the immense cultural achievement. The encyclopedia deals with both major and lesser art forms all within the context of the political, social and intellectual mood of the period. An authoritative list of contributors include Germain Bazin, Maroel Brion, and the late Lionello Venturi.

1000 illustrations, 45 plates in full color all numbered for reference in the text.

This large hardcover volume in in very good vintage condition. The pages and the cover are starting to yellow. Binding is intact. Come with its original jacket, though it does have damage to it. Has a name and date inscribed inside.

A great and comprehensive reference to this era in art.

Hamlyn /1974/ 444 Pages

$5

Dry Guillotine chronicles Belbenoit’s childhood, the commission of two non-violent and relatively minor thefts from employers, his subsequent capture, conviction, and transportation to French Guiana.

Belbenoit actually wrote the manuscript for Dry Guillotine while in prison and carried the work wrapped in oilskins to protect it from the elements. Protected in this manner, the manuscript survived countless rainstorms and unexpected dunkings in the ocean and rivers between Cayenne and California where Belbenoit finally managed to reach the United States and freedom in 1937.

While a prisoner at Cayenne, Belbenoit was introduced to the American author Blair Niles who bought several works from Belbenoit for use in her book titled Condemned to Devil’s Island. Mrs. Niles paid Belbenoit handsomely for his work and it was this money which financed the next two escape attempts Belbenoit made.

Vintage hardcover from grandfather’s collection. The cloth cover has stains to it, pages are yellowed, and first few pages are turned upwards at their bottom. Pages are intact. Sells for $40+ U.S. on rare book sites.

Great black and white plates!

E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc. /1939/ 345 Pages

The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton – 1942 Edition- 347 Pages

“Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilizaed world, a strange new power was at work. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of mind and of spirit that our mind and spirit today are different. . . . What was then produced of art and of thought has never been surpasses and very rarely equalled, and the stamp of it is upon all the art and all the thought of the Western world.”

A perennial favorite in many different editions, Edith Hamilton’s best-selling The Greek Way captures the spirit and achievements of Greece in the fifth century B.C. A retired headmistress when she began her writing career in the 1930s, Hamilton immediately demonstrated a remarkable ability to bring the world of ancient Greece to life, introducing that world to the twentieth century. The New York Times called The Greek Way a “book of both cultural and critical importance.”

The Echo of Greece by Edith Hamilton – 1957 Edition- 224 Pages

Fourth-century Athens has a special claim on our attention, ‘ writes the author, ‘apart from the great men it produced, for it is the prelude to the end of Greece… The kind of events that took place in the great free government of the ancient world may, by reason of unchanging human nature, be repeated in the modern world. The course that Athens followed can be to us not only a record of old unhappy far-off things but a blueprint of what may happen again.’

Both hardcover books are in good vintage condition. They come with their original jackets, which are torn in spots. Pages are intact, and bindings are good. The cover corners of both volumes are turned in.

Norton Press Book-of-the-Month Club Editions

$3 for the set.