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The Prytaneion: Its Function and Architectural Form
by Miller, Stephen G
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine copy in very good, unclipped dust jacket; DJ is edge worn with the most of it being at the spine ends with and along the to/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0520033167
- ISBN 13
- 9780520033160
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. Hardcover. Fine copy in very good, unclipped dust jacket; DJ is edge worn with the most of it being at the spine ends with and along the top edge and top open corners; with small closed and open tears and chips; light shelfwear and soil from handling and use; o/w no major tears and DJ is solidly in one piece and still very attractive; clean is clean and free of fraying; boards are free of bumps; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and, with the exception of one accidentally dogearred page 227, free of creases; edges of leaves are clean; binding is square; hinges are tight; a gently used copy./very good. Large octavo in red cloth in burgundy red dust jacket; plates: illus.; 258 pp., 25 cm. In English and Greek; warmly inscribed by author on front pastedown.
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- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85691
- Title
- The Prytaneion: Its Function and Architectural Form
- Author
- Miller, Stephen G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy in very good, unclipped dust jacket; DJ is edge worn with the most of it being at the spine ends with and along the to
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0520033167
- ISBN 13
- 9780520033160
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Prytaneums, Prytaneion.
- Bookseller catalogs
- archaeology;
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About Bibliope by Calvello Books
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