The Acropolis
by Rodenwaldt, Gerhart; Photographs by Walter Hege
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1957. Second edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Second edition, 1957, hardcover with beige cloth boards in dust jacket, quarto, 61pp. + 104 b&w plate index. Book near fine with hint of shelfwear to boards, mild soil to rear board, binding tight, previous owner's signature to rear flyleaf, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ VG with edgewear that includes a few small closed tears, small chip to spine head, front flap price-clipped, with original printed plastic wrap that shows some bunching.
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- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B34809
- Title
- The Acropolis
- Author
- Rodenwaldt, Gerhart; Photographs by Walter Hege
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second edition
- Publisher
- Basil Blackwell
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Ancient History
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
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