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Looking for Dilmun
by Bibby, Geoffrey
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Organizational Library. Maroon cloth, gilt titles on spine & decoration on front board, xvi, 383, viii, [3] pp, 16 ff b & w plates, 9 maps, 41 drawings, index. Ex-organizational library, with rubber-stamped ownership marks. DJ spine ends worn, 1" chip at top rear corner, book & DJ covered w/plastic taped only to itself. Story of the discovery of ruins of the civilization of Dilmun (along the shores of the Persian Gulf), which traded with the equally ancient Indus valley civilization about five thousand years ago. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, in a review laid in, says, "On top of being a first-class archeologist, Bibby can tell an impossibly complex story without ever allowing the reader to forget a thing or lose his way. He can not only paint a corner of the world that this reader, at least, never took much interest in, he can actually make one want to grab the next jet there. ... It's enough to turn us all into archeologists." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/VG. 24½ X 16½ cm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ARME00010
- Title
- Looking for Dilmun
- Author
- Bibby, Geoffrey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Archeology Archaeology Middle East Mideast Saudi Arabia Bahrain Kuwait Qatar
- Bookseller catalogs
- Archeology;
- Size
- 24½ X 16½ cm
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Twin City Antiquarian Books
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
About Twin City Antiquarian Books
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