The Echo of Greece
by Edith Hamilton
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/missing
- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: W.W. Norton, 1957. Book of the Month Club Edition. Cloth. Fine/missing. A fine Book of the Month Club hardcover edition of a classic work. Missing dust jacket. Black cloth boards with gold spine lettering. Bookplate on front pastedown. Jacket's rear flap laid in on rear pastedown. 224 pp. Octavo. Fourth-century Athens has a special claim on our attention apart from the great men it produced," writes Hamilton, "for it is the prelude to the end of Greece...The kind of events that took place in the great free government of the ancient world may, by reason of unchanging human nature, be repeated in the modern world. The course that Athens followed can be to us not only a record of old unhappy far-off things, but a blueprint of what may happen again." With the clarity and grace for which she is admired, Edith Hamilton writes of Plato and Aristotle, of Demosthenes and Alexander the Great...
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- Seller
- Uncommon Works (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1165
- Title
- The Echo of Greece
- Author
- Edith Hamilton
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- missing
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book of the Month Club Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Bookseller catalogs
- History & Historiography;
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About the Seller
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...