Louis Robert - Les gladiateurs dans l'Orient grec - 1940

Rarest first edition of the book published in 1940 in a very limited edition from which there are no modern commercial reissues.
The extremely few circulating copies come, like the present one, from dismissed academic funds.
The ex libris in the photo refers to the American School of Classical Studies (AS Sch of Cl Studies), one of the most prestigious international academic institutions for the study of Graeco-Rorean antiquity, of which the book’s former owner was a part (the American historian and archaeologist Peter Bruce Cornwall, whose private library included this book).
There are 25 lithographic plates printed off-text.
Preserved in good condition, it features a half-leather binding with marbled card, very solid, with signs of abrasion and scratches on both covers and edges, and on the leather part, defects noted in the photos.
Throughout the text there are numerous underlinings and pencil marginalia that are easily erasable.
At the junction of the first plate, on the linking page, there are some brown traces (also highlighted in the photo); otherwise the pages show no defects, tears, or gaps.
The volume’s rarity on the market is real; at present it is not for sale from any retailer or antique bookseller, neither physical nor online, as monitored by Copilot.
The book presents two title pages, nearly identical, and on the second there are marks of a stamp, probably placed by a library that previously owned the publication.