Cyprus and Makarios
by Mayes, Stanley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Putnam. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1960). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Price markings on front endpaper. No tears to dust wrapper. Some rubbing to dust wrapper. Dust wrapper is price clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; xii, 260 pages + portrait frontispiece. Orange-brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 137mm. Top page edges dyed green. History. "[Mayes] recalls the Archbishop's repeated insistence that, for Cyprus, Enosis is the only goal [. . .] Mr. Mayes also studies the various parts played in the island's history by Turkish, Greek and British politics - the old Anglo-Turkish links, the British offer to Greece in 1915, the contradictory voices of the Labour Party." - from dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo .
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13823
- Title
- Cyprus and Makarios
- Author
- Mayes, Stanley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Putnam
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1960)
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...