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The Lost Ark of the Covenant: Solving the 2,500 Year Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark
by Parfitt, Tudor
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/VG+/F
- ISBN 10
- 0061371033
- ISBN 13
- 9780061371035
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About This Item
HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2008* Publisher: Harper One.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, Gilt title to spine and face. Minimal shelf wear. Slight bumps to lower corners, otherwise no visible faults. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated cover. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of $25.95. Minimal shelf wear to jacket. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Sumptuous coloured maps to end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. AS NEW* Illustrations: 16 pp, Block of Colour photos.* Pages: 367 pp. text. xiv pp. Epilogue & Index at rear.* Description: For thousands of years the world's foremost scholars, historians, mystics and thrill seekers have either published and/or actually perished on the subject of the fabled Lost Ark of the Covenant. But one such acclaimed modern adventurer and scholar has come along to provide shocking new insights on the treasure, its history, and legend. In Tudor Parfitt's "The Lost Ark of the Covenant" readers will find the most up-to-date and compulsively readable account of decades of research and painstakingly brilliant expeditions. Throughout the course of his search, the reflections noted in this book shed an incredible new light on this once ancient mystery..* A NEAR FINE copy with ONLY MINIMAL FAULTS.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2015
- Title
- The Lost Ark of the Covenant: Solving the 2,500 Year Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark
- Author
- Parfitt, Tudor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG+/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0061371033
- ISBN 13
- 9780061371035
- Publisher
- HarperOne
- Place of Publication
- New York USA 384
- This edition first published
- February 26, 2008
- Size
- 22.6 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm
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