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The Autumn of the Middle Ages
by Huizinga, Johan
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0226359921
- ISBN 13
- 9780226359922
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First English Language Edition. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. xxii, 467 (7) pp, illus. Translated by Rodney J. Payton and Ulrich Mammitzsch: First Complete English Language Edition,1996. Not Price Clipped. 2 pages creases at top fore-edge corner with faintly foxed text block, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.25" x 9.25". Black cloth with glossy copper lettering to spine. Illustrated dj in acetate protector. "This is the first full translation into English of the classic portrait of life, thought, and art in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France and the Netherlands. Few who have read this book in English realize that The Waning of the Middle Ages, the only previous translation, is vastly different from the original Dutch, and incompatible will all other European-language translations.".
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006272
- Title
- The Autumn of the Middle Ages
- Author
- Huizinga, Johan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First English Language Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0226359921
- ISBN 13
- 9780226359922
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- HISTORY FRANCE CIVILIZATION MIDDLE AGES NETHERLANDS LIFE CULTURE AND ART 14TH AD 15TH CENTURIES
- Bookseller catalogs
- HISTORY;
- Size
- Large Octavo
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Fine
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- Price Clipped
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....