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A Mound of Many Cities or Tell El Hesy Excavated. Frederick Jones Bliss.
London. A P Watt & Son. 1894 Very Good No Jacket
A very good example with small owner's label inside front cover and small owner's inkstamp in corner of half-title and dedication pages. Ink name and date (June 2 1894) been partially erased from rear of front endpaper. No other marks. Paper beginning to crack on front hinge, otherwise hinges and joints sound. Light corner rub, covers a little grubby, spine a little darkened. A most interesting book.
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35.00 GBP
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Greek Terracottas. T B L Webster.
Penguin Books. 1950 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
A very good 35 page (plus 54 plates) hardback book without inscriptions or other marks. Light corner rub, clean and tight. DJ is corner chipped.
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12.50 GBP
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Introduction to Greek Art Woodford, Susan
Duckworth 2005 0715620959 / 9780715620953 Paperback Very Good
A very good 186 page large format softback book with signature on front endpaper, otherwise unmarked. A clean, tight, book with the very lightest touch of corner rub. Heavily illustrated, very informative, essential reading for first year Classics A level. Personally recommended by my student daughter!
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10.00 GBP
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Nikko Toshogu Japan Times
Japan Times 1970 Very Good Very Good
A very good 109 page hardback book with inscription on front endpaper, otherwise unmarked and virtually unworn. A collection of photographs, with accompanying text, of the Toshogu shrine and surrounding park.
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10.00 GBP
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Secrets of the Bible Seas : An Underwater Archaeologist in the Holy Land. Alexander Flinder.
Severn House 1985 0727820478 / 9780727820471 First Edition Good Very Good
A good ex-library book with the usual stamps and label residues. Prelims removed - first page is title page. Square, tight and clean, minimal shelfwear, seems little used. DJ is very good with just a touch of rub to bottom fore-corners. 174 pages, 26 beautiful full-colour photographs, 4.5 page bibliography, index. Underwater archaeology in the Eastern Med.
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7.50 GBP
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The Bible Companion. William Neil, Ed.
Skeffington. 1959 First Edition Good No Jacket
A good ex-library book with the usual stamps and label residues. As usual with this book, both hinges are straining - the paper on the front hinge is completely split, that on the rear hinge is only slightly split but tender. Otherwise a good clean book with foxing to endpapers and page edges, and very light shelf wear. No DJ. 468 pages, slightly smaller than A4. Not just a bible dictionary, but a complete survey of the history, archaeology, geography, politics, sciences, etc of the Holy Lands during the time of the Bible.
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8.50 GBP
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The Companion Guide to Turkey. John Freely.
Collins. 1979 0002161168 / 9780002161169 First Edition Very Good Very Good
A very good book with owner's name & date inside front cover. Small blue ballpoint crosses against several town names in index at rear, small ballpoint circles around town names on rear endpaper map. Otherwise unmarked. Endpapers and top edge foxed, virtually unworn. DJ has the lightest touch of rub along top edge.
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12.00 GBP
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The Maldive Mystery Heyerdahl, Thor
London George Alllen & Unwin. 1986 0049101048 / 9780049101043 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
A very good 323 page hardback book in a very good DJ. Unmarked except that someone has Biro'd out the word "Persian" in "Persian Gulf" on the front endpaper. A pleasing example.
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10.00 GBP
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The Sign and the Seal Graham Hancock.
BCA 1992 Very Good Very Good
A very good book with patchily browned page edges in a very good DJ. The classic "Lost Ark of the Covenant" book, much better researched than most, with 61 photographs and 70 pages of references. A good read, though the big question remains unanswered.
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10.00 GBP
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The Story of Decipherment from Egyptian Hieroglyphic to Linear B. Maurice Pope.
Thames & Hudson 1975 0500780013 / 9780500780015 First Edition Very Good Very Good
A very good ex-library 216 page hardback book with the usual stamps and label residues. Virtually unworn, very slight spine lean. DJ is patchily sunned with the lightest touch of corner rub. A heavily illustrated, densely informative book on early near-Eastern hieroglyphic, cuneiform and uncial scripts. Glossary, extensive bibliography, index.
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10.00 GBP
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The Story of Jericho. John Garstang & J B E Garstang.
Hodder & Stoughton 1940 First Edition Very Good Very Good
A very good book without inscriptions. Small amount of underling of placenames on maps inside front & rear covers, not objectionable. Mildly foxed throughout, page edges browned. Light edge rub. Foxing to backstrip. Owner's name and address on inner face of front panel of DJ, with a brief note on front flap. Edge rub along top & bottom, heavier at corners, with a roughly 15mm by 12mm piece missing from head of spine, which is much browned. Several short closed tear near corners.
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12.00 GBP
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The Way of the Samurai. Richard Storry.
Lon Orbis Publishing. 1982 085613404X / 9780856134043 Good No DJ
A good 127 page large paperback book without inscriptions or other marks. Light corner rub and creasing to cover and spine, some yellowing to the lacquer. A clean book.
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8.00 GBP
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