The Magnificent Hoax
by Oppenheim, E. Phillips
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. Very Good+. 1936. Hardcover. An edition in very good+ condition. Spine is slightly cocked. Small amount of foxing throughout. ; historical story of a lost Egyptian queen and her fabulous treasureIn the early 1800s, an Egyptologist named Auguste Mariette became obsessed with a lost queen named Cleopatra and her fabulous treasure. Using a combination of espionage and magic, Mariette pieced together the story of Cleopatra's life and her death at the hands of the Roman general Octavian. In the end, he revealed that the whole story was a hoax--a clever deception meant to deceive the public and boost Mariette's own career.; 8vo; 316 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 160268
- Title
- The Magnificent Hoax
- Author
- Oppenheim, E. Phillips
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- BB202002C, Fiction, Murder, Crime
- Bookseller catalogs
- By Year Of Issue / 1930s;
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- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...