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Papandreou, Nikos
Lepti Grammi : Diegemata
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Papandreou, Nikos
Histories tes Tsepes = Pocket stories
Collection of essays and commentaries. 220p. Book
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Espy, Willard R.
Childrens Almanac of Words At Play
An assortment of humorous writings, including limericks, riddles and puns for each day of the year 253p. illus. Donor inscription on ffep else as new Book
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Haviaras, Stratis
When The Tree Sings
Set in German-occupied Greece during WW II, this spare, elegant, often emotionally shattering novel tells the story of a young mans emergence into manhood in a land of tyranny.218p.illus Remainder mark, else as new Book
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Burn, A.R.& Burn, Mary
The Living Past of Greece : A Time Traveller's Tour of Historic and Prehistoric Places
The whole of Greece, as every traveller and archaeologist knows, is alive with history and prehistory. Mr and Mrs Burn select over seventy of the most important and interesting places, islands and buildings, relate what happened there in the past, and describe in detail what now remains. Some of these sites are well known, others less so; but all have been chosen not only for their historical interest and beauty, but also because remains still exist, usually above foundation level, bringing the past to life. Inevitably, the greater part of this book is devoted to prehistoric and classical places, sites of a civilisation ancestral to our own; but attention is also given to the great (and some small) churches and monasteries of Christian Greece and to the major Frankish castles of mediaeval times. A lively outline of Greek history provides an introduction and puts the whole in perspective, and each site is illustrated by a specially-drawn plan or map and, in many cases, a photograph. The authors' enthusiasm for the country and its past is vividly conveyed in their writing, making The Living Past of Greece an invaluable companion for the traveller already there or for the reader and potential traveller at home. Book
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Leekley, Dorothy & Noyes, Robert
Archaeological Excavations in the Greek Islands
Guide to archaeological digs on Greek islands. "the information given for each site will include the names of the excavators, the dates on which the excavations were carried out, a very brief descriptions of the finds, and, most important, a bibliography which will enable the researcher to locate the book and/or article which describes in greater detail the excavations and finds in which he is interested. Sites from all periods up to the Roman are included .except for early Christian remains.130p, index Text neat and complete , Minimal signs of library ownership Ex-Library
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Strong, D.E
Greek and Roman Gold and Silver Plate
The only flaw is the shadow of an old price sticker on the first endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked, binding tight - looks unread. There are some small damaged sections on the dust jacket, which is now protected by a plastic sleeve.235p. Illus B & W in text + 68 pages of photographs, Appendices, indexes Book
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Apostolides, Marianne
Deep Salt Water
Deep Salt Water is an intimate memoir about abortion, expressed through the language and imagery of the ocean. By gravitating around a central love storythe reconnection of a couple whod had an abortion twenty years earlierthe book draws its readers, inexorably, into global themes of loss, time, and creation. 174p. illus.Review copy - PR sheet laid in Book
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Pindar
The Odes of Pindar Including the Principal Fragments (Loeb Classical Library, No 56)
Reprint of the revised edition published in 1937. Parallel Greek and English texts. 635p. index. Name of previous owner on ffep, else as new Book
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Gones, Demetrios V
To Syngraphikon Ergon tou Oikomenikou Patriarchou Kallistou A'
Thesis submitted to the Theological school st the University of Athens. Contents:Vioi hagion, Homiliai, Euchai. Apolesthenta, amphivallomena kai kakos apodothenta kai apodidomena eis ton Kalliston erga.377p. [32] leaves of plates : facsimiles, bibliography, index [WorldCat lists only 10 copies] Book
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Gonzalez-Palacios, Alvar
The French Empire Style
Originally pubished Fabbri, Milan 1966 "'Dal Direttorio l'Impero" English translation by Raymonf Rudorff.157p. 70 plates in full colour. 157p Book
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Machen, J. Gresham
New Testament Greek for Beginners
First published1901. "This textbook is intended primarily for students who are beginning the study of the Greek Testament without any previous knowledge with the Greek language. This is a good unmarked vintage copy - the 26th printing of the 1923 US edition. 287p. index. In a very shabby repaired cover, but the text is neat and complete Book
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Alexandrakis, Maria & Mantzoufa, Clio
Crete, Rhodes and Delos
Vintage pocket sized guide for tourists covering 3 popular Greek islands. Preface By Lawrence Durrell 119p. plates (B & W) Book
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Spivey, Nigel
Greek Art
Nigel Spivey sets the formation of the classical style in its proper historical context. He considers how Greek art was inextricably bound up with the social, religious, philosophical and political factors of the period and explains the art not only in terms of those who commissioned and created it, but also with reference to the archaeology of the places which hosted it. 448p. illus bibliography. index, Publishers postcard laid in. Book
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Louis, Diana Farr
Secrets of the Greek Islands
Covering six of Greece's island groups - starting in the west with the Ionian islands, moving east to the Argo-Saronics, continuing to the Cyclades, Crete and the Dodecanese, circling up to the North Aegean islands and back round to the Sporades and Evia - this book highlights some of the beautiful landscapes and villages of the Mediterranean. Book
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Theodoracopulos, Taki
The Greek upheaval: Kings, demagogues and bayonets
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Galanaki, Rhea [Rea Galanake]
I Shall Sign as Loui
It is Christmas Eve, 1888, and the poet-revolutionary Andreas Rigopoulos (1821-89) is writing to a friend of years past, with whom he is still in love. He is recording the details of his soul and sadness, a life filled with love and revolution, politics and poetry. Rigopoulos confesses he does not know what he wishes his story to accomplish and ultimately concludes, with the simplicity of a tortured poet, "I want to write to you about my life". He will call her Louisa, and he shall sign as Loui.In her first novel published in America, the renowned Greek writer Rhea Galanaki has given us a powerful, passionate story of the life of a real person, told through fictional letters. Rigopoulos (Loui) has grown up in western Greece, was educated in Italy, and dies at sea. In between, he befriends Victor Hugo and Edgar Quinet, meets Karl Marx, and participates in the Italian underground and student uprisings in support of Garibaldi. Loui's letters to Louisa cover a life spent traveling across Europe, from Patras and the Ionian Islands to Italy and Paris, taking readers through the revolutionary movements of mid-nineteenth-century Europe and America. At the end of the novel -- or is it his life? -- he writes these words: The time consents to my ignorance once more -- whether you were only a face, or in one face I summed up all the others; whether you came as a vision or I embraced you as a woman; whether you are now dead or still unborn.English translation by Helen Dendrinou Kolia Book
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Harris, Leslie
Robert Adam and Kedleston: The Making of a Neoclassical Masterpiece
Catalogue of an exhibition at the RIBA-Heinz Gallery 1987. The exhibition of the remarkable collection of architectural drawings at Kedleston, one of the finest in any country house. Edited and with a foreword by Gervase Jackson-Stops.96p. illus.[some col.] plans. Large format [30x21x2 cm] Book
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Lefkowitz, Mary F & Fant, Maureen
Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation
" . this highly acclaimed sourcebook examines the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women. The texts represent women of all social classes, from public figures remembered for their deeds (or misdeeds), to priestesses, poets, and intellectuals, to working women, such as musicians, wet nurses, and prostitutes, to homemakers. The editors have selected texts from hard-to-find sources, such as inscriptions, papyri, and medical treatises, many of which have not previously been translated into English. The res ulting compilation is both an invaluable aid to research and a clear guide through this complex subject.The third edition adds new texts to sections throughout the book,420p. illus bibliography. index Book
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Konstantinides, Andreas [Constantinides, Andrea]
Mithenika : Katigoro to Theo
Cypriot author - may have been printed in Canada.No date or publisher given. 42p. [NO copy found in WorldCat] Book
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Powell,Dilys
Remember Greece
An affectionate and informed survey of Greece, with an account of the events leading up to the invasion by Italy and the eventual occupation by Germany in 1941.191p. frontis. fold-out maps .index Book
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Papoutsy, Christos
Love and Live Free or Die : A Greek story of romance, war, freedom and honor in 1803
A large crowd gathers to participate in the brutal Turks victory celebration over the Souliots. Near Eastern music is playing as the beautiful young Soulot dancer named Zavoulina is commissioned to perform. She finds out that she is chosen to be the bride for Veli, the son of the Turkish Sultan Ali Pasha. Zavoulina screams, "I will not marry your son. I am a Souliot! Your son Veli slaughtered my father and mother, and your brave soldiers raped and killed my Souliot sisters. They burned down our villages, but now you order me to marry and love your son? Never! This is the story of her escape, her rescue by a heroic Souliot freedom fighter named Diamantis and her brave battle for freedom ending in the Dance of Zalongo. 60p. illus [3 Copies found in WorldCat] Book
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Keeley,Edmund
Cavafy's Alexandria
C. P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth encompassing the entire Greek world. In this, the first full-length critical work on Cavafy in English, Keeley describes Cavafy"s literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth. 224p. bibliography.index Book
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Keeley,Edmund
Cavafy's Alexandria: Study of a Myth in Progress
C. P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth encompassing the entire Greek world. In this, the first full-length critical work on Cavafy in English, Keeley describes Cavafy' literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth. 196p. bibliography.index Book
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Cavafy, C.P. (Constantine P)
The Complete Poems of Cavafy
"This volume presents new translations and the first complete edition of the poems of C.P.Cavafy, the most famous modern Greek poet of Alexandria...This distinguished collection contains 187 poems , including thirty three early poems of Cavafy which have never before appeared in book form either in English or in Greek Translated by Rae Dalven. Introduction by W.H.Auden. 234p .notes bibliography Book
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Cavafy, C.P. (Constantine P) )
Collected Poems
Edited by George Savidis. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Cavafy was an ethnic Greek poet who lived in Alexandria and worked as a journalist and civil servant. He wrote 154 poems; dozens more remained incomplete or in sketch form. Cavafy was instrumental in the revival and recognition of Greek poetry both at home and abroad. His poems are, typically, concise but intimate evocations of real or literary figures and milieu that have played roles in Greek culture. This is an ex-library copy with title page missing and marks inside front cover, otherwise the text is tight, unmarked, clean and neat.261p. notes bibliography Ex-Library
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Sampson, Theodore (Ed) [Saponides]
Five Canadian Poets in Greece : Dudek, Gustafson,Layton, Purdy,Solway : A Bi-Lingual Edition (IN GREEK and in English)
An anthology of poems by Canadian authors ( Louis Dudek, Ralph Gustafson, Irving Layton,Al Purdy and David Solway) who have been influenced by their visits to Greece and their reading of Greek literature. 77p.illus. Book
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Heighton, Steven
Every Lost Country
Lewis Book, a doctor with a history of embroiling himself in conflicts, and his daughter, Sophie, travel to Nepal to join a climbing expedition. One evening, as Sophie sits on the border between China and Nepal, watching the sun set over the Himalayas, she spots a group of Tibetan refugees fleeing from Chinese soldiers. When shooting starts, Dr. Book rushes toward the ensuing melee, ignoring the objections of Lawson, the expedition leader, who doesnt want to get involved and spoil his chance to be the first climber to summit Kyatruk. Lawson is further enraged when Amaris, a Chinese-Canadian filmmaker recording the expedition, joins Book with her camcorder in hand. When the surviving Tibetans are captured just short of the border, Lawson and Sophie look on helplessly as Book and Amaris are taken away with them, down the glacier into China. From that point, Lawson continues his ascent, and the fugitives are caught in an explosive and thrilling pursuit that will test their convictions, courage, and endurance. Book
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Dukakis, Olympia & Heckman, Emily
Ask Me Again Tomorrow: A Life in Progress
".this internationally renowned film and stage reveals her struggle to assimilate as a first-generation Greek-American, her long alienation from her mother and how that finally resolved itself, her battles with addiction and her volatile personal relationships, and the efforts it took her to overcome all of this and achieve excellence in her professional calling. A story told with honesty, humor, and the sincere desire to be share . moe than a celebrity memoir . a book that will endure." 211p. plates. bibliography.w Book
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Miller, Marion Mills [ed]
The Classics - Greek and Latin - Vol. 6 Biography Oratory, Science, Satire
Book SIX ONLY from this 16 volume set : The classics, Greek and Latin : the most celebrated works of Hellenic and Roman literature, embracing poetry, romance, history, oratory, science, and philosophy... "Translated into English prose and verse by distinguished men of letters, with critical appreciations by an international council of classical scholars." the set was "Limited to one thousand numbered and registered sets of fifteen volumes each On spine: Edition de luxe.457p. frontis Clean,tight, hardly read! Book
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Theotocas, George [Theotokas]
To Daimonio : a Novel
Series B Volume 1 in the "McGill Companions to Modern Greek Studies" series . Contains the text in Greek with extensive notes and explanations in English by Anne Farmakides. 198p. glossary 00771701411 [2 copies found in WorldCat] Book
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Crane, Stephen [Stallman, R.W. and Hagemann, E.R]
The War Dispatches of Stephen Crane
"Stephen Crane's war dispatches add a new dimension to his reputation as one of America's leading writers...The present volume includes his dispatches on the Greco-Turkish War and the Spanish -American War; his articles on the Boer War; and the play he wrote about some of his experiences during the war in Cuba. It offers, as well...a number of related articles by fellow correspondents, among them Cora Crane, Richard Harding Davis, and Frank Norris. In addition to giving the most vivid available picture of what the Greco-Turkish and Spanish-American Wars were like, these pieces also offer a great deal of fascinating new information about Crane's life. 344p.Crisp,tight neat text,. Usual iibrary marks Ex-Library
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Diamanti-Papaioannou, Tzenis
To Nisi Tou Eliou : Taxeidiotiko
Short book about Rhodes [pages 1-52] followed by comments on the author's other works [p 53-69] 70p. illus.[ B &W] Inscription on ffep. Text neat and tight, but paper wraps lightly scuffed [NO copies found in WorldCat] Book
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Mahaffy, J.P.[ John Pentland]
History of Classical Greek Literature Vol I : The Poets (with an Appendix on Homer By Prof, Sayce)
An original vintage copy NOTa reproduction (Volume I of a 2 Volume set - will NOT be sold separately) Clean, tight, unmarked text. Scuffing to head and foot of spine, corners slightly bumped Book
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Petrakis,Harry Mark
In the Land of Morning
From the ageless elements of great drama-love and hate, fear and home, war and vengeance, Petrakis has spun a modern classic centering around two love affairs, one youthful and poetic, the other a seething, sensual mature love that grows to be all-consuming. It is the story, as well, of a strange, driven family seen in a new light by a son newly returned from war, weary of killing and death, but finding he has not left these behind him. Confrontation and the haunted past threaten his love and his hope for the future. 290P. Author inscription on ffep Book
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Thomas, D. M.
Lady with a Laptop
"Simon.is invited to the Greek Isle of Skagathos to teach overly enthusiastic would-be writers who have as much chance of actually publishing a book as Simon has of winning a Booker Prize. The summer colony, of which the writers are a part, has taken the tenets of the New Age to heart, whether in pursuit of the ever-elusive orgasm or of finding the magic key that will unlock their inner creativity. And Simon, as polite as he is randy, cannot quite bring himself to explain to his students that there is no neccessary connection between the price of one's computer and the quality of one's writing" Something of a send-up of the writer's school on Skyros. Book
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Misdrahe-Capon, Rachel [ed]
Delphi (Sanctuaries and Museums in Greece)
(Sanctuaries and Museums in Greece series) 48p. illus, plates (col) Fold out reconstruction of ancient site. {3 copies found in WorldCat] Book
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Karnezis, Panos
Little Infamies: Stories
Cunning, fantastical tales about a Greek village of the imagination, from a startling new talent. Panos Karnezis's remarkable stories are all set in the same nameless Greek village. His characters are the people who live there - the priest, the whore, the doctor, the seamstress, the mayor and the occasional animal: a centaur, a parrot that recites Homer, a horse called History. Their lives intersect, as lives do in a small place, and they know each other's secrets: the hidden crimes, the mysteries, the little infamies that men commit. Karnezis observes his villagers with a worldly eye, and creates a place where magic invariably loses out to harsh reality, a place full of passion, cruelty, and deep reserves of black humor. Nineteen debut stories reflect daily life in a Greek village over many years. Greece, first of all, is a nation of villages - from the sooty neighborhoods of Athens down to the tiny place ("so poor it doesn't have a name") that's the epicenter of these tales. The first-time author (a Greek engineer living in Britain) knows the brusque clannishness of his native land and conveys the rhythms and tempers of its life with a deft touch. "Another Day on Pegasus," for example, is told from the perspective of a bus driver: a sort of Greek Ralph Kramden who argues with his conductor, insults (or flirts with) his passengers, and manages despite the odds to keep his bus ("Pegasus") running from day to day. Greek bureaucracy is portrayed in its harshest light in "Jeremiad," about the unhappy fate of an old man who gets to the Pension Office late and dies in the waiting room before his claim is settled. Shadows of the classical age stretch into the present in "Circus Attraction" and "Cassandra Is Gone," both about the career of a centaur who becomes the star attraction of a flyblown rural circus and falls in love with the tattooed lady (who may or may not be the original Cassandra of Agamemnon). "A Classical Education" (a small-town clerk's attempts to teach Homer to his parrot) has a Flaubertian tone to it, while "Sacrifice" (a brief sketch of a father and son who slaughter a murderous cow) has a bitter tensity reminiscent of Chekhov. The finest piece, "Immortality," is an elegiac, almost mystical account of villagers in the early 20th century as they beg a waylaid photographer to "make us live forever" by taking their picture. Fine and true: Karnezis breathes fresh life into traditional Greek society without mocking or sanitizing it. Book
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Petracos, Basil C.(Petrakos, Basil] [Petrakos, Vasileios]
Delphi
Illustrated guide to the antiquities of Delphi, by the Curator of the Museum. 86p. illus (some col) diagrs, Book
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Dontas, Domna N.[Visvizi-Dontas]
The Last Phase of the War of Independence in Western Greece (December1827 to May 1829)
Near fine copy, autograph inscription by author on ffep "To **** with very best wishes from Domna" [6 copies in WorldCat] Book
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Mathioulakis,Christos Z
Travellers Guide to Santorini : Atlantis
Small handbook published in Greece. "History proofs that Atlantis is connected with Santorini and with Crete" Vintage copy. 64p. illus.maps+ 8 pages of coloured plates.{4 copies founD in WorldCat Book
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Conley, Phil [Philip Mallory Conley]
America's Debt to Greece
As well as surveying the creation of the American constitution, and the ways that ancient Greek democracy affected political thought in the 18th. century, it also describes the authors experiences when he visited Greece.Endorsements by Constantine Tsatsos, Allan Nevins.185p.Author inscription on ffep. else as new Book
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Goulandris, Vasilis P & Papastamos, Dimitris
Mouseio Synchrones Technes - Andros
Catalogue of the Goulandris collection of Modern Greek artt. Introduction in Greek, French and English by Dimitris Papastamos. Biographical note on the artists 147p. illis. s. Small scratch on paper cover, else fine [6 US copies found in WorldCat] Book
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Stoneman, Richard
Literary Companion to Travel in Greece
Gazetteer of Greek places as described by poets and writers through the ages. 321p. bibliography. index Paper age-toned. Book
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International Olympic Committee [ed]
Olympism in Antiquity [1]
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland June 23, 1993.A lavishly illustrated display featuring Greek works of art relating to the ancient Olympic Games.Includes : Olympism in antiquityby J.A. Samaranch; Introduction by Doris Vanhove; The torch race by Doris Vanhove; Homer and sport by Doris Vanhove; The festivals by H. Van Looy; Summary description of the four sites of the periodos by H. Mussche; The gymnasium by Doris Vanhove; The sports disciplines by Doris Vanhove; Rome and the end of the games by H. Van Looy. Plates p 58-160). 163p. illus Book
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Thomson, George
A Manual of Modern Greek
" A lucid new text to help the students acquire fluency in reading Modern Greek, based on classes that hadgbeen held for many years at the University of Birmingham In three parts : a grammar/ texts for reading with explanatory notes / and a vocabulary." 112p. vocabulary Book
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Powell,Dilys
Remember Greece
An affectionate and informed survey of Greece, with an account of the events leading up to the invasion by Italy and the eventual occupation by Germany in 1941. The original edition was published in 1941 and then this "American edition published 1943 in cooperation with the American Friends of Greece." 211p. frontis.maps.index Book
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Geromichas, Ph.
Grammatike Anglikes Glosses : Pleres & Systematike : di archarious kai prochoremenous spoudastas tes Anglikes, me plethos paradeigmaton = English grammar for Greek students
Vintage guide to help Greek students to master English Grammar. 200p. Fold out chart. [ 5 copies found in WorldCat] Book
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Pernot, Hubert [Octave]
Grammaire Grecque Moderne (Langue Parlee) Avec Une Introduction et Des Index.
Older book on Modern Greek grammar (Katharevousa) no date on tp or colophon, but the author's introduction is dated 1897. xxxi 262p.index. Text neat and complete, covers slightly worn Book
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Papamavrou, M
Alphavetario Meros B
Textbook for teaching modern Greek [Katharevousa] Originaly published in Athens. This copy was enclosed in green cloth covered boards as issued by Bibliopoleion Atlantidos 203-205 W. 25th. St New York.The textblock is clean and complete, but very loose in shabby, stained, worn cover, some pencil marks inside detached front board. 79p.lIlus. [NOT found in WorldCat][ Book
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