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The Shadow Of Vesuvius
by Trevelyan, Raleigh
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG/ND
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Folio Society, 1976-01-01. 1st. Edn, Thus, 1st. Imp.. Hardcover. VG+/VG/ND. Box X42 HARDBACK ""UNCOMMON,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1976 * Publisher: The Folio Society. * Binding and cover condition: Beige glossy illustrated front cover showing a tragic mask from the House of Fountains in gilt relief. Gilt title to slightly aged spine in brown cloth. No bumps, minor rubs, a few slight marks, somewhat grubby overall. VG.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. Thought to have been issued with a clear glassine wrapper not in a slip case. ND * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Mono (black printing on blue ground) illustrated end papers showing plates of Vesuvius and the bay. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, top and fore edge slightly aged. VG++.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w & colour prints and line drawings throughout. * Pages: 125 pp. text. vi pp. picture notes & blank pages at rear.* Description: This book is not just about Pompeii, but with all the places that were overwhelmed by the catastrophe of AD 79. To visit them arouses many contrasting emoti0ns, and this is their perennial fascination. They also make one feel ? uncomfortably perhaps ? that a span of nineteen centuries is not so long after all. It is interesting to note that a number of new discoveries have only recently been made at Pompeii (2023) and these may offer a further insight into the lives (and death) of the people who were there in AD 79.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st. thus? with some minor age and reasonable cover wear reducing it to VG. No dust jacket as issued.* 0
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10069
- Title
- The Shadow Of Vesuvius
- Author
- Trevelyan, Raleigh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG/ND
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, Thus, 1st. Imp.
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Date Published
- 1976-01-01
- Pages
- 129
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Fore Edge
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- ND
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- Gilt
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- Bumps
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