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Anabasis: A Journey to the Interior
by Ellen Gilchrist
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0878057269
- ISBN 13
- 9780878057269
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994. SIGNED. F/NF. First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Ellen Gilchrist on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped (no stated price as issued) with faint rubbing, else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 297 pages. 6 x 8½" tall.
Set in ancient Greece around 500 BC, "Anabasis" is the story of Auria, a young girl who is born into slavery but is taken on as an apprentice to the gentle genius Philokrates, who spent his last few years teaching Auria all that he could about healing, nature, politics, geography and human nature.
When Philokrates dies, Auria becomes more aware than ever that she is a slave and fated to a life of servitude. But when she is called to help deliver a neighboring woman's child and discovers that as one of many daughters the baby is to be abandoned, Auria begins a journey that will change her life forever.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3876
- Title
- Anabasis: A Journey to the Interior
- Author
- Ellen Gilchrist
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0878057269
- ISBN 13
- 9780878057269
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Place of Publication
- Jackson, MIssissippi
- Date Published
- 1994
- Pages
- 297
- Size
- 6 x 8.5
- Keywords
- ancient greece,
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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