Ionia : A Quest
by Stark,Freya
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/No Jacket
- Seller
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STREETSVILLE, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1954 Ex-Library. Very Good +. Cloth. 1st UK Edition.. Wonderful descriptions of the ancient classical sites of the western coast of Asia Minor (before it was developed as a tourist destination) "In the autumn of 1952 I travelled about the western coasts of Asia Minor, and counted, at the end, fifty five ruined sites that I had visited: in only one of them - and that was Pergamum - had I met another tourist, sightseeing like myself. . . . A great longing came to me to know more, and to bring a living image out of these dots and dashes of the past." 263p.+ plates, bibliography, index. Text bock unmarked,untrimmed.Donation bookplate stamped as withdrawn on paste-down, only minor signs of library ownership Greenis cloth cover is sun faded mostly along the spine..
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- Seller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 043486
- Title
- Ionia : A Quest
- Author
- Stark,Freya
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st UK Edition.
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- TURKEY IONIA ASIA MINOR TRAVEL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Turkey; Travel Books;
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