Renaissances Before the Renaissance: Cultural Revivals of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
by Treadgold, Warren (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
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Madison, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1984. First Edition, First Printing (no additional printings indicated). Hardcover. Octavo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 238 pp, including index. Very Good+ / Very Good. Teal buckram on board, spine lettered in silver. Bump to tail of spine. Very slight shelf wear. Former owner's name and date inked on front free endpaper. Occasional tidy penciled marginalia by former owner, an acknowledged scholar of Byzantine and Post Byzantine art, else pages clean. Text block tight, but ever so slightly canted forward. Dust jacket worn with tiny closed tears at head and tail of spine, worn through finish on fold of rear flap. Now in archival protective cover.
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- Bookseller
- Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000075
- Title
- Renaissances Before the Renaissance
- Author
- Treadgold, Warren (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Buckram on board
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Stanford, CA
- Date Published
- 1984
- Pages
- 238
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- World History;
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- Buckram
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- Tail
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- Octavo
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- Good+
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- First Edition
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- Marginalia
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