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THE BULL OF MINOS
by LEONARD COTTRELL
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: EVANS BROTHERS, 1953 Blue Cloth Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 225 x 150 mm approx. Maps to end papers, 228 pp. Frontis + 50 other b/w illustrations on 32 pp of glossy plates all as called for. First Edition 1953. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Good (Book- mild shelf rubbing to cloth at tail of spine- colour loss only, hint of dust spotting to top edge of book block,no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket rubbed to extremities with 1 x 1 cm chip to bottom front corner, associated tear to fore edge of flap fold of 1.5 cm and small nicks and a little loss to head and tail of spine which is also slightly sunned. Mild shelf soiling. Non price clipped - cover 16/- Now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve. No other notable defects to book or jacket). A book which has been reprinted a number of times but which is now quite uncommon in first edition format with it's dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 132514
- Title
- THE BULL OF MINOS
- Author
- LEONARD COTTRELL
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- EVANS BROTHERS
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- The Bull of Minos, Leonard Cottrell, Archeology, Crete, Greece, Troy, Dictean cave, Zeuz, Greek Myth, Theseus, The Minotaur, The Trojan War, Schiemann, Dr Evans,
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- Jacket
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- Rubbing
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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