The Find of a Lifetime: Sir Arthur Evans and the Discovery of Knossos
by Horwitz, Sylvia L
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670135755
- ISBN 13
- 9780670135752
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 1981. xii, 278 pages, [5] leaves of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Front free endpaper (blank) removed, age toning. Dust jacket with a slightly sunned spine. On the archaeological dig at Knossos, revealing the wealth of the Minoan civilization, and its central character Sir Arthur Evans (1851-1941).. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 048996
- Title
- The Find of a Lifetime: Sir Arthur Evans and the Discovery of Knossos
- Author
- Horwitz, Sylvia L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0670135755
- ISBN 13
- 9780670135752
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- European / 2. Classical / Greek; Archaeology;
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