THE TESTIMONY OF THE SPADE
by Geoffrey Bibby:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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theberton suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Alfred A Knopf New York 1956 VG (no dj, blue cloth boards with gilt titles dull on red cloth backstrip, very lightly worn top and base of spine and very lightly discoloured at edges, top page edges yellow, a very good sound copy, one or two brown spots outside page edges, small ink initials front free endpaper and tiny pencil annotation contents page else a very good clean bright firm copy) octavo 414pp. History of archaeology. 32 b/w plates, figures throughout the text.
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- Bookseller
- lobstabooks (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36441
- Title
- THE TESTIMONY OF THE SPADE
- Author
- Geoffrey Bibby:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf New York 1956
- Bookseller catalogs
- Archaeology;
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