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Camonica Valley: A Depiction of Village Life in the Alps from the Birth of Christ as Revealed by Thousands of Newly Found Rock Carvings
by Anati, Emmanuel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good +/very good +
- Seller
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Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xxi, 262pp, xi. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Mild shelfwear to price-clipped dust jacket. Russet cloth over boards with spine backed in cream cloth and upper board and spine stamped in black. A touch of shelfwear to binding. Blue topstain. Light foxing to edges of text block. Previous owner's stamp to front free endpaper. Light toning and dust soiling to endpapers. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very presentable first American printing of a remarkable book that "throws a bright light on 2,000 obscure years of prehistory in northern Europe and on the myths and cults of its mysterious forest people, who have fascinated civilized men from Julius Caesar to Robert Graves" (front flap), illustrated throughout in 71 photographs, 131 drawings, and 4 maps.
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- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4901
- Title
- Camonica Valley: A Depiction of Village Life in the Alps from the Birth of Christ as Revealed by Thousands of Newly Found Rock Carvings
- Author
- Anati, Emmanuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition, 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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- Shelfwear
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- 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....
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