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NY: Frederick A. Praeger. Fair with no dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. Ex-public library with usual markings, covers worn with some dampstaining, a few pencil marks. Tear to rear black endpaper. ; Ancient Peoples and Places; 264 pages .

W. W. Norton & Company. Good. 1978. Softcover. 0393008770 . Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). Pages tanned. Creasing to wraps and first few pages. ; Norton Library; 316 pages .

Beacon Press. Good. 1955. Softcover. Creasing to front wrap. Ink and pencil underlining on a few pages. ; 201 pages .

Beacon Press. Fair. 1966. Softcover. Wraps have creasing and yellowing. Highlighting to about 10 pages. Scholar's initials to ffep (Hugh J. Mason). Last few pages have short tears to foreedges (no loss of text). ; 160 pages .

Harper & Row. Very Good-. 1959. Softcover. Edgewear to extremities. Chipping along spine ends. Former classics scholar's name on ffep (R. Shepherd). Light Pencil marginalia on a few pages. ; 312 pages .

Elisabeth Sifton Books. Very Good. 1987. Softcover. 0140552294 . Light browning to pages. ; This book is about the study and understanding of the history of the Greeks and Romans, about the evidence available to historians and its severe limitations; about the practices of the historians in dealing with the evidence, and about alternative procedures that might be attempted. ; 20 x 20 x 20 Inches; 131 pages .

Harper & Row. Very Good. 1970. Softcover. Light Edgewear to extremities. Small gold stamped stamped to front wrap. ; Harper Torchbooks; 312 pages .

Ivy Books, 1993-07-05. Paperback. Used:Very Good.

American Heritage Press. Very Good. 1970. Softcover. Light yellowing to wraps. ; 314 pages .

D. C. Heath & Company. Very Good. 1987. Third Edition. Softcover. 0669110213 . Wraps have light edgewear. ; Social history of Greek society. ; 229 pages .

W. W. Norton & Company. Very Good-. 1978. Softcover. 0393008770 . Remainder mark to bottom of textblock. Minor Creasing to rear wrap with minor staining. ; Norton Library; 4.8 X 0.7 X 7.4 inches; 316 pages .

Thames & Hudson. Very Good. 1995. Softcover. 0500271615 . Minor sticker residue. ; Illustrated National Histories; 9.4 X 6.7 X 0.6 inches; 192 pages .

D. C. Heath & Company. Good+. 1971. Softcover. Wraps have light creasing. Rear wrap is discolored. Spine is sunned. Some edgewear. Knock to rear wrap. ; Social history of Greek society. ; 197 pages .

Fontana Press. Very Good-. 1984. Softcover. 0006333478 . Pages tanned. Faint underlining in ink and pencil to a few pages. ; Fontana History of the Ancient World; 0.88 x 8.25 x 5.42 Inches; 328 pages; The art of classical Greece and its political and philosophical ideas, have had a profound influence on Western civilization. It was in the fifth and fourth centuries BC that this culture reached its zenith, and it is this period that is examined in this book. The art of classical Greece, and its political and philosophical ideas, have had a profound influence on Western civilization. It was in the fifth and fourth centuries BC that this culture - material, political and intellectual - reached its zenith, and it is this period that is examined in this book. .

Fontana Press. Good+. 1986. Softcover. 0006861083 . Pages tanned. Minor ink notes and underlining. Spine sunned. ; Fontana History of the Ancient World; 320 pages; Within the space of 300 years, up to the great Persian invasion of 480BC, Greece was transformed from a simple society into a sophisticated civilization which dominated the shores of the Mediterranean. This book places the development of Greece in the context of Mediterranean civilization. Within the space of three centuries, up to the great Persian invasion of 480BC, Greece was transformed from a simple peasant society into a sophisticated civilization which dominated the shores of the Mediterranean from Spain to Syria and from the Crimea to Egypt - a culture whose achievements in the fields of art, science, philosophy and politics were to establish the canons of the Western world. The author of this book places this development in the context of Mediterranean civilization, providing an account of the transformation that… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Da Capo Press. Very Good. 2004. Softcover. 0306813602 . Minor edgewear where laminate is lifting in places. Else fine. ; Reprint of the 1980 ed. 255pp. An impressively accessible narrative depicting the three-day battle for the pass at Thermopylae (the Hot Gates) --a critical contest in Xerxes's massive invasion of Greece. The bloody stand made there by Leonidas and his small Spartan army in 480 B. C. Has been hailed ever since as an outstanding example of patriotism, courage, and sacrifice.; 255 pages .

Thames & Hudson. Near Fine. 1980. Softcover. 0500271615 . Very light shelfwear. ; 6.75 X 0.5 X 9.5 inches; 192 pages .

University of Texas Press. Very Good. 1995. Softcover. 0292727240 . Tiny circle stamp to ffep. Creasing to corner of wraps. ; 9.25 X 0.5 X 6 inches; 160 pages .

W. W. Norton & Company. Good. 1965. Softcover. 0393002764 . Endpapers and inner wraps have some chipping/wear. ; With 50 plates, 53 text illustrations and 24 maps. An account of the culture of Crete from the earliest times down to the Roman Age and is concerned with the material aspects of Cretan archaeology. ; 400 pages .

Oxford University Press. Very Good. 1993. Softcover. 0192891472 . Creasing to spine. Pages tanned. ; 5.06 X 0.693 X 7.75 inches; 256 pages .