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Five Stages of Greek Religion - Studies Based on a Course of Lectures Delivered in April 1912 at Columbia University
by Murray, Gilbert
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Oxford: Clarendon Press. Fair with no dust jacket. (1930). First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. An 80mm tear to cloth at top of rear joint, with paper tape repair over tear. 5mm fraying and chips to cloth at head and tail of spine. ; 1930 reprint of a title first published in 1925, which was a itself a revision of "Four Stages of Greek Religion" (1912). 276 pages. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 224 x 140mm. Contents: Saturnia Regna; The Olympian Conquest; The Great Schools; The Failure of Nerve; The Last Protest; Appendix: Translation of the Treatise of Sallustius, [peri Theon kai Kosmou]; Index. .
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- Seller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 23060
- Title
- Five Stages of Greek Religion - Studies Based on a Course of Lectures Delivered in April 1912 at Columbia University
- Author
- Murray, Gilbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- (1930)
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Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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