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1931Classic book illustrating the artifacts and social history of Archaic Greece. 146p. Frontis, plates, illus, index [+ 20 P Catalogue] Exceptionally neat and tight vintage copy.Donor inscription on ffep, slight spine fading, else fine. Book
1941Reprint of book (in smaller, cheaper wartime format) of a book first published in 1939 under the title "News of Persephone : Impressions in Northern & Southern Greece with a Car, a Kettle and a Camera" Wanderings around Greece in 1938. Describes encounters with Gypsies. 224p. plates. maps on endpapers (Condition good, some slight fading of binding cloth, and wear to head & foot of the spine.) Book
1996Journalist's observations on the social and political conditions and the past and present ethnic tensions in the Balkans. 270. illus. maps .bibliography. Book
1916240x160 mm. 160 pages. Gilt hardcover. Cover slightly rubbed. Cover corners slightly bumped. Spine edges rubbed and bumped. Ex-library copy with usual marks. Binding partly visible between whitepage and title page. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition.
1986Collection of essays about fascinating places by a wide range of distinguished authors. Includes "A Walker's romance with Symi" by John Wain. (pp129-135) 419p. index. 0394546341 Book
1993400x245mm, 173 pages. With numerous color photographs. Hard cover with dust jacket, accompanied by a small booklet containing Hebrew translation of the text. Dust jacket slightly torn on edges and worn. Gilt lettering on cover and spine. Pages 123-148 lightly folded on bottom-right corner. Else in good condition. Over 1.5kg. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
2007Very light shelfwear. Light creasing to lower corner of first few pages. ; From Sumer to Babylonia : topics in the history of southern Mesopotamia / Gonzalo Rubio --The Assyrians : new look at an ancient power / Steven J. Garfinkle --From Hattusa to Carchemish : the latest on Hittite history / Gary Beckjman --Syria-Palestine in recent research / Daniel C. Snell. ; Publication of the Association of Ancient Historians 8; 153 pages
1967SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 240X175 mm. 128 pages. Softcover. Cover slightly yellowing. Cover edges slightly wrinkled. Spine yellowing. Spine edges slightly worn. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition.
1956Contains b&w plates. 2404160 mm. 129 pages. Rebound softcover. Sticker residues on front cover. Pen and pencil inscriptions on first pages. Ex-library copy with usual marks. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition.
197225x16.5 cm. 282 pages. Soft cover. Contains black-and-white plates. Spine is worn, stained and partially missing. Cover is yellowing and slightly scuffed and dirty. Else in good condition.
1977This biography of one of the nineteenth century's most dazzling women is also a dramatic and exciting historical story set against a background of glittering cities and filled with a cast of fascinating characters. Jane Digby, born in 1807, was the daughter of a respected English noble family. At seventeen she married Lord Ellenborough (later the British Viceroy of India), but after just four years she left him for an Austrian prince - a separation that led to one of England's most scandalous divorce cases. That relationship was not to last long, however. From her prince Jane went on to the court of King Ludwig of Bavaria. Next she married a baron in Ludwig's court, only to leave him for the Count Spiridion Theotocky Greek count and, later, an Albanian brigand, Christodoulos Hadjipetros. In her forties she settled at last in a long and satisfying marriage to a Bedouin Sheik living half the year in Damascus and half the year in the desert. 268p. plates bibliography, index. Book
1960From the collection of the Canadian sculptor Dora de Pedery-Hunt. Donor inscription, else fine. Book
1958A posthumous collection of essays relating to people and places in the ancient world: Herculaneum, Peisistratus, Ephesus, Love, Rulere- cults, Pythagoras, Diogenes, Epicurus,Wimne tyrade, Atalanta. 173p. map Book
1983Moving personal testimony of the way the Jews were deported from Greece to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation. Errikos Sevillias was born in Athens in 1901 into a Sephardic family. He learned how to work in leather as a child and opened his own leather workshop when he was 16. From 1919 until 1923 he served in the Greek army, for three years fighting in Asia Minor. After the war he reopened his workshop, married, and had a daughter. Life, as he writes, "went along well" until he experienced "an inexplicable and unexpected great adventure," meaning Auschwitz. Errikos Sevillias was killed in Athens by a motorcycle in 1974, when he was 73 years old. The manuscript of this book was found among his papers after he died. He describes the appalling events at Auschwitz with extraordinary calm, saying merely that he couldn't understand "what they wanted in doing such an unjust and evil thing." His simple statements of events give the clearest possible image of the indescribable. The manuscript was translated by Nikos Stavroulakis, who also has provided an extremely useful historical outline of the Jewish presence in Greece with a description of the occupation and final solution. 125p.+ plates Book
1964A journey around Greece reflected in the words of writers, journalists and poets from all places and periods. "Travellers, poets, artists, even scholars, still go to Greece in search of something they feel that no land quite offers them. Partly no doubt this is a by-product of the enormous prestige the world of ancient Greece acquired subsequent to the Renaissance; partly, too, it is due to the sheer physical beauty with which Greece presents one at practically every step. For Philip Sherrard the enigma of Greece was virtually a lifelong preoccupation. In this anthology he explores its various aspects through the writings of those who over the centuries have found in Greece not simply an object of study or a romantic haven but a challenge, an incitement and a reciprocity that have stirred the wellsprings of both heart and imagination".291p. plates. bibliography. index. Book
1999Dustjacket shows light shelfwear and faint creasing. Book has very minor shelfwear. Boards very slightly bowed. ; In this book, James Sickinger explores the use and preservation of public records especially laws and decrees, in the ancient Athenian democracy of the archaic and classical periods. This book challenges the growing orthodoxy in classical scholarship that characterizes Athenian literacy and record keeping as crude and primitive before the fourth century B. C. It argues instead that the practical use and preservation of laws, decrees, and other state documents were hallmarks of Athenian society from the earliest times. ; Studies in the History of Greece and Rome; 1.03 x 9.59 x 6 Inches; 274 pages
1999Dustjacket shows shelfwear and minor creasing along top edge. Book has very minor shelfwear. ; In this book, James Sickinger explores the use and preservation of public records especially laws and decrees, in the ancient Athenian democracy of the archaic and classical periods. This book challenges the growing orthodoxy in classical scholarship that characterizes Athenian literacy and record keeping as crude and primitive before the fourth century B. C. It argues instead that the practical use and preservation of laws, decrees, and other state documents were hallmarks of Athenian society from the earliest times. ; Studies in the History of Greece and Rome; 1.03 x 9.59 x 6 Inches; 274 pages
1955From Germany a book full of vintage (1950's) black and white photographs of Greece - all before the onslaught of mass tourism. 239p. map. Text in English. Exceptionally crisp, clean tight copy Book
(New - will be sent to you direct from the publisher in Greece) Angelos Sikelianos (1884- 1951) was one of the major Greek poets of the 20th century. There are two main aspects to his poetry: the lyrical affirmation of the natural world and the vision of the seer who knows that the natural world is doomed to tragic suffering. Bilingual edition. Book
1997Translation of 'Les Chats du Soleil" by Emily Lane. Cats are as much part of the scenery of Greece as the mountains and the monuments, and Hans Silvester ....spent three years carefully tracking, observing and recording these creatures, penetrating their private world and capturing their attitudes in every situation and mood. 144p. of wonderful colour photographs. A delightful gift book for fans of felines! NOTE: Large format [29x25x2 cm] Book
1971Shelfwear to book. Faint creasing to wraps. Spine sunned. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Light pencilling to a few pages. ; Xxii, 364pp, illustrated. The Africans who came to ancient Greece and Italy participated in an important chapter of classical history. Although evidence indicated that the alien dark- and black-skinned people were of varied tribal and geographic origins, the Greeks and Romans classified many of them as Ethiopians. In an effort to determine the role of black people in ancient civilization, Mr. Snowden examines a broad span of Greco-Roman experience--from the Homeric era to the age of Justinian--focusing his attention on the Ethiopians as they were known to the Greeks and Romans. The author dispels unwarranted generalizations about the Ethiopians, contending that classical references to them were neither glorifications of a mysterious people nor caricatures of rare creatures. Mr. Snowden has probed literary, epigraphical, papyrological, numismatic, and archaeological sources and has considered modern anthropological and sociological findings on pertinent racial and intercultural problems. He has drawn directly upon the widely scattered literary evidence of classical and early Christian writers and has synthesized extensive and diverse material. Along with invaluable reference notes, Mr. Snowden has included over 140 illustrations which depict the Negro as the Greeks and Romans conceived of him in mythology and religion and observed him in a number of occupations--as servant, diplomat, warrior, athlete, and performer, among others. Presenting an exceptionally comprehensive historical description of the first major encounter of Europeans with dark and black Africans, Mr. Snowden found that the black man in a predominantly white society was neither romanticized nor scorned--that the Ethiopian in classical antiquity was considered by pagan and Christian without prejudice. ; 364 pages
1990" Beginning with Sappho in the seventh century B. C. And ending with Hypatia and Egeria in the fifth century A. D., Jane McIntosh Snyder listens carefully to the major women writers of classical Greece and Rome, piecing together the surviving fragments of their works into a coherent analysis that places them in their literary, historical, and intellectual contexts.;Beginning with Sappho in the seventh century BC and ending with Hypatia and Egeria in the fifth century AD" 199p. bibliography ,index.0550410375 Book
1999245x165 mm. XII+311 pages. Gilt hardcover with dust jacket. DJ yellowing, slightly rubbed and slightly worn. Spine edges bumped. Few pages slightly stained - no damage to text. Pages yellowing. Else in good condition.
1823THIS VOLUME ONLY. 11x17 cm. xxiv+294 pages. Hardcover. Cover is chafed. Spine is missing. Sticker on inner cover. Pen writing on title page and last white page. Several pages slightly age stained. Else in good condition.