CRETE AND ITS TREASURES. Text by Professor Olivier Reverdin. Preface by Dr. N. Platon
by Reverdin, Olivier
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
(New York): The Viking Press, (1961).. (1961).. Good. - Quarto, dark brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine, in a price-clipped dust wrapper. The covers are lightly rubbed & bumped. The dust jacket is rubbed & chipped with a piece of the top edge of the rear panel torn & creased. The dust jacket has several tears along the edges of its spine with pieces out of the head & tail. 153 pages. Full-page color illustrations & profuse tipped-in color plates from photographs by Rudolph Hoegler, Dr. N. Platon, & Professor N. Creutzburg [who contributes a chapter on the flowers of Crete]. The top page corners are lightly creased & the page edges are very slightly darkened. Very good in a fair dust wrapper.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22483
- Title
- CRETE AND ITS TREASURES. Text by Professor Olivier Reverdin. Preface by Dr. N. Platon
- Author
- Reverdin, Olivier
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (New York): The Viking Press, (1961).
- Date Published
- (1961).
- Keywords
- ARCHAEOLOGY; EXCAVATIONS; CRETE; MINOAN CRETE; MINOS; ARTS; CRAFTS; DECORATIVE ARTS; OLIVIER REVERDIN; N. PLATON; RUDOLPH HOEGLER; N. CREUTZBURG; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLATES; TIPPED-IN PLATES.
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- Archaeology;
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About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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