Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, First Edition, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 504 pages. Hardcover with fold out timeline tipped in to rear. Light tanning to spine. Tender front board hinge. Light toning to edges & profusely illustrated in black & white throughout. Very thin pages, small tears to 4 pages, & wrinkles to lower right corner of pages 305 - 318. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Otherwise clean & with beautiful illustrations.
Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 490 pages. Paint marking/underlining in pencil on a few pages, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Dust jacket worn with light rubbing, chipping to edges.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 345 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket spine faded. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 2nd Pr., 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 346 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some edge wear, but is still in good condition. Blue paper covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout, as well as a bind-in halfway through with full-color photography. This lively, accessible chronicle works back from 1778, when the British explorers encountered an island civilization governed by rulers who could not be gazed upon by common people. Interweaving anecdotes from his own widespread travel and extensive archaeological investigations into the broader historical narrative, Kirch shows how the early Polynesian settlers of Hawai'i adapted to this new island landscape and created highly productive agricultural systems. Clean copy. Record # 34124
Softcover. Baltimore, John Hopkins, Reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 456 pages. Paperback. Previous owners signature at top of title page. Cover surface has cut(?) line on right side. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 510785
Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 1989-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 322 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear, rubbing and creasing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462479
Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 193 pages. Illustrated throughout text with ancient Roman artifacts. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt. Color pictorial dust jacket. Record # 220589
Hardcover. London, UK, Bloomsbury Continuum, 1st, 2024, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 332 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in good condition, with one closed tear on the bottom edge, and a peeling price sticker on the rear cover. Teal cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout, as well as a bind-in halfway through with full-color photography. This book is an evocative and lyrical history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean. Cyprus: where the ancient olive trees of Homer's time exist alongside the undersea cables which provide the world's internet. It combines the political, cultural, and geographical history of Cyprus with reflections on time, place and belonging. A remainder dot is present on the bottom edge, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34121
Hardcover. Anchorage, University of Alaska Press, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 226 pages w/ index. Brown cloth. Map end papers. Previous owner's signature on back of front fly leaf. Two prelim pages cut out. Otherwise, clean, unmarked, tight. B/W photos throughout. Record # 803885
Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover . New York, Copernicus, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 234 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 469337
Softcover. Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 353 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book is a wide-ranging history of ancient Greek political thought. It shows what ancient political texts might mean to citizens of the twenty-first century. Clean copy. Record # 34307
Softcover. Chicago, IL, The University of Chicago Press, 2nd, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 481 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W tables throughout. This book presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this updated second edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with sections on such current topics as postmodernism, deconstructionism, black history, women's history, and more. Clean copy. Record # 34188
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st thus, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 228 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has significant wear, with several chips and closed tears. Tan cloth cover boards have some minor discoloration, but are still in very good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography and illustrations throughout. This book is a historical investigation which argues that pre-Columbian American civilizations were influenced by visitors from the Mediterranean. Previous owner wrote the date on the rear end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34516
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st thus, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 371 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains full-color and B&W photography throughout. Historian Robert Knapp tells of the lives of ordinary people who lived in the ancient Roman empire. The author seeks out the ordinary folk-laboring men, housewives, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves, soldiers and gladiators to provide a nuanced and complete picture of Roman life. Clean copy. Record # 34286
Hardcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated in color and black & white. Remainder line on bottom edge. Clean, tight copy. Record # 511150
Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 2nd, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Color photographs in center pages. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Record # 468196
Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.softcover . New York, Thames and Hudson, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Softcover. B/W and color pictures throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 469344
Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 2nd Pr., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, black cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book presents a state-of-the-art debate by five eminent scholars about the origins of Athenian democracy. The result is a stimulating, critical exploration and interpretation of the extant evidence on this intriguing and important topic. Clean copy. Record # 34283
Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 284 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains more than 100 B&W and full-color photographs and illustrations throughout. This wide-ranging book is the first to explore the visual culture of Russia over the entire span of Russian history, from ancient Kiev to contemporary, post-Soviet society. The book examines the ways that Russians have represented themselves visually and used visual images in social and political contexts. Expert contributors discuss images and objects from all over the Russian/Soviet empire, including consumer goods, architectural monuments, religious icons, portraits, news and art photography, popular prints, films, folk art, and more. Clean copy. Record # 33975
Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages, b & w and color photos, part of The Smithsonian Illustrated Library of Antiques, prepared by the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, very clean, tight copy, like new. Record # 800834
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