HARDBACK, ?NOW IN CLEAR PROTECTIVE WRAPPER,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2005* Publisher: The Overlook Press.* Binding and cover condition: Quarter bound, black cloth spine strip with gilt title to spine. Chestnut brown paper covered boards with blind impressed logo to front. No bumps or shelf wear. FINE* Jacket condition: B/w & colour illustrated dust wrapper, gold and white titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of $29.95. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to jacket. Now in clear protective wrapper. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text or to edges, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: 98 b/w illustrations & four maps within text throughout.* Pages: 298 pp. text. xlvi pp., notes & references, afterword, list of illustrations, index & blank page at rear.* Description: A cross-cultural study of chariot warfare detailing the chariot's use as a war machine right across the Old World, from Ireland to Korea as well as its ceremonial and religious use in the days of early Mesopotamia right up to twentieth-century filmmakers. Arthur Cotterell combines a career in education with an extensive background in ancient civilizations.* A FINE text copy of the 1st/1st fnl. with no visible faults in a FINE protected dust jacket.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 568
Title: Chariot: The Astounding Rise and Fall of the World's First War Machine
Author: Cotterell, Principal Arthur
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - F/F/F
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL.
ISBN 10: 1585676675
ISBN 13: 9781585676675
Publisher: The Overlook Press.
Place of Publication: Woodstock, USA. 344
Date Published: 2005-05-31
Size: 16.1 x 3.3 x 23.6 cm

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