Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 1931
Description: Fair. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Tan cloth covers are worn. Water stain to bottom outside corner that extend through whole book. Text is legible. Inside front hinge is cracked. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Company, Boston
Date Published: 1931
Description: Poor. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Worn and soiled, a reading copy only. 297 pages, with B/W illustrations. Translated from the German by D. F. Tait. As a child, before I had even learned to read, I shook hands with him at my father's table. Ten years later, I stood before the long glass cases in the Berlin Museum and gazed on the gold of Troy. Thus my earliest ideas of greatness and glory, of legend, poetry and scholarship, were linked wiht his name. read more
Description: Good in Poor dust jacket. "The life story of the great German archaeologist, who became famous by his discovery of the site of Troy, is told, for the first time, by the author with all that his intensity, picturesqueness, vigor and sympathy. ' DJ in mylar with considerable top edge sunning, chipping and creasing. Eight b/w illustrations, including frontis. Two pages with ink underlining. Top edge black, fore-edge and bottom edge with lib stamp. Professional book dealer since 1975. All orders ... read more
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