Old Calabria
by Douglas, Norman
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine, lacking jacket.
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Modern Library, 1928. Stated First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Near fine, lacking jacket.. 12mo in dark brown limp polished cloth; viii, 440 pages 17 cm. Contents: Saracen Lucera -- Manfred's town -- The angel of Manfredonia -- cave-worship -- Land of Horace -- At Venoza -- The Bandusian font -- Tillers of the soil -- Moving southwards -- The flying monk -- By the inland sea -- Molle Tarentum -- Into the jungle -- Dragons -- Byzantinism -- Reposing at Castrovillari -- Old Morano -- African intruders -- Uplands of Pollino -- A mountain festival -- Milton in Calabria -- The "Greek" Sila -- Albanians and their college -- A Albanian seer -- Scrambling to Longobucco -- Among the Bruttians -- Calabrian brigandage -- The greater Sila -- Chaos -- The skirts of Montalto -- Southern Saintliness -- Aspromonte, the cloud-gatherer -- Musolino and the law -- Malaria -- Caulonia to Serra -- Memories of Gissing -- Cotrone -- The sage of Croton -- Midday at Petelia -- The column. S.
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- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 93679
- Title
- Old Calabria
- Author
- Douglas, Norman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine, lacking jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Stated First Modern Library Edition
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
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- Travel;
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Oakland, California
About Bibliope by Calvello Books
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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...
- Jacket
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...