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The Secret Code of the Odyssey: Did the Greeks Sail the Atlantic?
by Pillot, Gilbert
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0200717731
- ISBN 13
- 9780200717731
- Seller
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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Abelard-Schuman, 1972. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 208pp w appendices, bibliography and index. Maps and photos in text. Adhesive residue on ffep. Black cloth w red lettering on spine. Light surface scuff to bottom corners and tail. Binding square and sound. Illustrated DJ is clean, showing wear to top edges and corners, shallow chipping to head. DJ preserved now in archival cover. Small octavo: 21.5 x 15cm. Originally published as Le code secret de l'Odyssee (Robert Laffont, 1969) and translated from the French by Frances E. Albert.
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- Bookseller
- Post Horizon Booksellers
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045394
- Title
- The Secret Code of the Odyssey: Did the Greeks Sail the Atlantic?
- Author
- Pillot, Gilbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0200717731
- ISBN 13
- 9780200717731
- Publisher
- Abelard-Schuman
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1972
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- Homer. -- Odyssey. Homer -- Knowledge -- Geography. Odysseus, -- King of Ithaca (Mythological character) -- In literature. NOISBN Greece, Ancient & Classical
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books About Books; Mythology;
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