Verlag: Geoffrey Bles, 1966
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. 1966. No Edition Noted. 58 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Contains colour illustrations. Well bound and clean pages, with mild tanning to text block edges. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Moderate tanning and creasing, with rubbing and marking.
Hardcover, no dust jacket. Good; cocked spine, previous owner's name. 213 pp.
Verlag: Geoffrey Bles, Ltd., 1967
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Fair. 1967. No Edition Remarks. 60 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Contains colour illustrations throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Minor dog-eared corners. Folding to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Visible creasing to gutter. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to boards. Marks overall. Textblock is shaky.
Verlag: Libri Publications Ltd, 1954
ISBN 10: 1901965015 ISBN 13: 9781901965018
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Verlag: Geoffrey Bles, Ltd., 1968
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Fair. 1968. No Edition Remarks. 62 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains colour illustrations throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Sticker to front pastedown. Thumb-marking present. Visible creasing to gutter. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. White and black marks to boards. Textblock is shaky.
Verlag: Alba Editorial, 2022
ISBN 10: 8490658412 ISBN 13: 9788490658413
Anbieter: medimops, Berlin, Deutschland
Zustand: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.
Verlag: Geoffrey Bles, 1966
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. 1966. No Edition Remarks. 59 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains colour illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Top textblock edge dyed green. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Minor wear marks to spine and panels.
Illustr. London 1957. X, 209 pages + folding map. Original cloth in dustjacket.[#71140].
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. The binding suffers minor loosening due to age and wear, but remains secure and in-tact; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.8.
Verlag: Geoffrey Bles
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A good condition copy complete with age toned jacket that has some edgewear and small marks. Boards gently knocked. Slight marks to prelims and occasional page edge but overall clear.
Verlag: Libri Publications Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 1957
ISBN 10: 1901965023 ISBN 13: 9781901965025
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Who are we? Where do we come from? What formed us? Why are we as we are now? Today's world is amorphous and inexplicable without an idea of the past, including the most ancient, its prehistory. Mary Chubb's City in the Sand, reprinted after 42 years, is about a dig (and several peripheral others) in Iraq in 1932, sandwiched between much shorter accounts of vigorous walking in Greece and Crete with other archaeological friends before and after it. Poignant thoughts arise of then and now in Iraq when she writes, The country was at peace, and a good man was king. Westerners, welcomed and given concessions to dig in certain areas, could plan well ahead and find skilled local labour. As secretary to the Director of the dig, Hans Frankfort, a Dutchman she greatly admired, Mary Chubb was part of an international group funded by the University of Chicago as part of a vast plan of archaeological discovery in the Middle East, stretching forward into the late thirties. For what became a group not just of colleagues but of friends, it was a time of excitement and intellectual richness, shared and therefore doubled. The main task was the discovery with what seems miraculous skill and luck of Eshnunna, an ancient vassal city of Ur, and its complex uncovering - horizontal layers of building, thirty foot down, sorted into their periods, combed in minutest detail. It was heady work. Seals with which merchants marked their wares told, for instance, how goods had arrived there from India much earlier than anyone had thought; statues identified ancient gods; inscriptions, ancient rulers. Beautiful jewellery, beads, metalware, pottery, tools, artefacts of all sorts testified to the sophisticated civilization which had ruled there. It was dizzyingly exciting, the daily surprises, the sense of awe, and Miss Chubb, an amateur writing for the general reader, though she learn a great deal on the way, put across its fascination to the non-specialist with detailed explanations from the specialists on hand. Always it is what she calls the human touch, a voice speaking down the ages that appeals most to her: the thought of the man who held the seal in his warm brown hand; of the baby whose perfect footprint was pressed in plaster hundreds of years before Abraham, away down in Ur, had gathered up his family and belongings .to set out westwards for his new homeland; of the thumb prints on ancient bricks; of the fearsome pear-shaped stones bored through the centre, exactly like those still used by the dig's basket boys as defensive weapons, now mounted on sticks; underground for thousands of years, these wooden handles had perished. As in her earlier book about her first dig, at Tell el-Amarna in Egypt, Nefertiti Lived Here, the emphasis in the telling is also on the human story today - that of the team working on the sites: archaeologists, architect, photographer, recorder of objects found, reader of inscriptions, and Gabriel, the indispensable odd-job man and driver who kept the show on the road. Miss Chubb is a natural stylist, her writing vigorous, fluent and graceful. Vivid images are slipped in with ease (the muffled pulsing of the ship's heart), and descriptions of landscape and weather, particularly in the lovely Greek and Cretan countryside, turn one's heart over now and then. This, of course, is what makes the book most memorable. The subject must fascinate all but the most incurious, and to bring it alive in modern terms there is a group of people in an atmosphere of comradeship, hard work, tough conditions and enormous fun. But it is the writing itself that really brings it alve: Miss Chubb has not just skill with language but a novelist's way with people. The personalities, the day-to-day life, reach us over 70 years as brightly as if they were (as she is) still with us. So her story is not just of historical interest but an imaginative re-telling of a human one, about young people, their adventures and achievements, the desert and its terrors; above all the past and its gifts to us in the present. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Libri publications Ltd., LONDRA, 2001
Anbieter: Biblioteca di Babele, Tarquinia, VT, Italien
Zustand: BUONO USATO. INGLESE Brossura editoriale. Illustrazioni di Ralph Lavers. Introduzione di Peter Lacovara. Numero Pagine 181.
Verlag: Geoffrey Bles, London, 1967
Anbieter: E. M. Maurice Books, ABAA, Torrington, CT, USA
Erstausgabe
Cloth Hard Cover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Jill Wyatt (illustrator). First Edition. Brick cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, color pictorial dust jacket with light wear and small edge tears, price clipped. An alphabet of people, places, and concepts related to Ancient Greece and how they've influence the modern world. Illustrated in color throughout. Size: Oblong 12mo.
Verlag: Geoffrey Bles, London, 1968
Anbieter: E. M. Maurice Books, ABAA, Torrington, CT, USA
Erstausgabe
Cloth Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Jill Wyatt (illustrator). First Edition. Blue boards pictorially stamped in gilt, droplet marks to top edge, color pictorial dust jacket with light wear and small edge tears, price intact (21 s). An alphabet of people, places, and concepts related to Ancient Greece and how they've influence the modern world. Illustrated in color throughout. Size: Oblong 12mo.
Verlag: Geoffrey Bles, London, 1966
Anbieter: E. M. Maurice Books, ABAA, Torrington, CT, USA
Erstausgabe
Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Jill Wyatt (illustrator). First Edition. Brick colored boards stamped in gilt, slight spine lean; color illustrated dust jacket with minor wear, price clipped. An alphabet of people, places, and concepts related to Ancient Egypt and how they've influenced the modern world. Illustrated in color throughout. Size: Oblong 12mo.