From The Silent Earth: A Report On The Greek Bronze Age
by Joseph Alsop
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
xii+296 pages with frontispiece and pictorial title, plates, folding table, illustrations and index. Octavo (8 1/2" 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with silver lettering in gilt pictorial to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition.
This vivid narrative reveals one of the earliest chapters in the history of Western humanity, lost to human knowledge for millennia. Contains many black & white photographs throughout.
Condition: Lightly toned at edges. Jacket price clipped else very good in a near fine jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A2750
- Title
- From The Silent Earth: A Report On The Greek Bronze Age
- Author
- Joseph Alsop
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper and Row, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York, Evanston and London
- Pages
- xii+296 pages with frontispiece and pictorial title, plates, folding table, illustrations and index
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
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The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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