Orange cloth w/black lettering. Ex lib w/small lib stamp rear endpaper and small ink notation, odd square of wallpaper also rear endpaper, no other lib marks. Small bookplate to front endpaper. Text is clean, tight, white, no marks, illustrated throughout by with drawings by Richard Cuffari. Unclipped DJ with $7.95 price shows light sunning of spine. "This is the story of the people who lived in the first cities in the world- the first builders, businessmen, explorers and adventurers, the first soldiers, sailors, citizens and kings. Focusing on the people and their achievements, the book combines a comprehensive archaeologial overview of this ancient world with an intimate, entertaining picture of day-to-day life in it's citites, from Mesopotamia to Egypt; from the Bible Lands and their ally, maritime Phoenicia, to the mysterious Indus River valley civilization; from the sophisticated island empire of Crete to Homeric Greece and onward into the diverse cultures of the European frontier." (from the jacket).

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Title

People of the First Cities

Publisher

The Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc., New York

Publication Date

1977

Language

English

ISBN 10

0027364305

ISBN 13

9780027364309

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Printing

Condition

Good

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Good

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Describes man's progress from the birth of the first cities to the dawn of the Classical Age, combining an archaeological overview of the world five thousand years ago with a picture of everyday life in its cities

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