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ORIGINS OF INTELLIGENCE SERVICES: THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST, PERSIA, GREECE, ROME, BYZANTIUM, THE ARAB MUSLIM EMPIRES, THE MONGOL EMPIRE, CHINA, MUSCOVY
by Dvornik, Francis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0813507642
- ISBN 13
- 9780813507644
- Seller
-
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, xvi, 334 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine dark red with white and blue lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price cut. Minor shelf wear. Rubbing to covers and light creasing to edges of jacket. Interior pages clean. Features illustrations throughout. Shelved in Case 10. 1381503. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1381503
- Title
- ORIGINS OF INTELLIGENCE SERVICES: THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST, PERSIA, GREECE, ROME, BYZANTIUM, THE ARAB MUSLIM EMPIRES, THE MONGOL EMPIRE, CHINA, MUSCOVY
- Author
- Dvornik, Francis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0813507642
- ISBN 13
- 9780813507644
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Date Published
- 1974
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
DC's Oldest Rare and Used Bookstore, Second Story Books operates two open shops in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. We have a large internet presence including this website, Amazon, and Ebay, accredited appraisals member ASA, and an in house book binder. For more information go to www.secondstorybooks.com
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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