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Plutarch's Lives. X: Agis and Cleomenes, and Tiberius and Caius Gracchus, Philopoemen and Flaminius (Loeb Classical Library 102)
by PLUTARCH; BERNADOTTE PERRIN
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good. Philadelphia's notable Rittenhouse Club bookplate to front pastedown, with the Club's library numbers tastefully stam
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Philadelphia's notable Rittenhouse Club bookplate to front pastedown, with the Club's library numbers tastefully stamped in gilt to spine. Lacking dust jacket.. 16mo. 398, [2] pp. Original green cloth, titled and ornamented in gilt, top edge gilt. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with some annotations in red ink. An uncommon copy.
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- Bookseller
- Irving Book Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1192
- Title
- Plutarch's Lives. X: Agis and Cleomenes, and Tiberius and Caius Gracchus, Philopoemen and Flaminius (Loeb Classical Library 102)
- Author
- PLUTARCH; BERNADOTTE PERRIN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good. Philadelphia's notable Rittenhouse Club bookplate to front pastedown, with the Club's library numbers tastefully stam
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1921
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Irving Book Company
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Asheville, North Carolina
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