Jane Ellen Harrison
by Stewart, Jessie G
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Merlin Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1959. Hardback. Paper boards clean, a touch bumped on corners, lightly sunned on spine, gilt lettering bright; Pages lightly age-toned, prior owner's signature on ffep w/ pencil annotation in rear listing apparent erratum, previous bookshop label on front pastedown, B&W illustrations in text, B&W plates, including a frontis portrait of Jane Ellen Harrison posing as Alcestis, bottom corners folded pgs.197/99; Binding tight. Harrison was primarily a linguist, but is also known as the founder of modern studies in Ancient Greek History and Mythology, and has been credited as the first female career academic. ; 5.5 x 8.75"; 216 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walden Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52146
- Title
- Jane Ellen Harrison
- Author
- Stewart, Jessie G
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Merlin Press
- Date Published
- 1959
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Walden Books
Biblio member since 2010
London, Greater London
About Walden Books
Second-hand and antiquarian booksellers since 1977, in present shop since 1979, open Thurs-Sunday, with an emphasis on History of Art and Architecture, Photography, Literature and Poetry, Literary Biography and Criticism and the the History of London.
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....