Archaic Marble Sculpture from the Acropolis
by Payne, Humfry; Mackworth-Young, Gerard
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: William Morrow & Co, 1950. Hardcover. Good. 4to. Variously paginated. Hardcover in burnt sienna cloth covered boards. Corners bumped and rubbed. Covers show spotting and scuffing. Spine is sunned. Wear and bumping at the headcap and the foot of the spine. Inside front and rear covers are foxed. Text is toned but sound.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029400
- Title
- Archaic Marble Sculpture from the Acropolis
- Author
- Payne, Humfry; Mackworth-Young, Gerard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- 1950; Humfry Payne; Gerard Mackworth-Young; Marble sculpture; Acropolis; Greece; Art; Archaeology; Archeology; Architecture.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Archaeology; Architecture;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...