Running Leona Glidden Freedman David (15 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good+. 1st edition. ~Ink annotation to p.2 only. No dustwrapper. Spine slightly faded. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request. Size: xi, 447pp., frontis. 15.5 x 23.5cm. Binding sound.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. Biography of an archaeologist who mastered Sumerian, Accadian, Ancient and Modern Hebrew and Arabic, Egyptian, Ethiopic, and Ugaritic as well as Ceramics and led much of the movement towards respect for biblical texts as authentic historic documents at a time when many influential scholars were dismissing them as late fabrications of myths and legends. xi, 447pp, photo frontis, index. A very bright, clean, unmarked copy. Tight, square binding no wear to the cloth. The unclipped dustjacket shows a little surface rubbing and minor edge wear. Sound, solid copy. Weight, 946g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.2.

Hard Cover. First Edition, First printing. FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET WITH ORIGINAL $15.00 PRICE. NO WRITING OR NAMES.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Ink underlining. Shaken, cocked spine. Chipped dust jacket. 447 pages. 447 pp.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Unknown. Small quarto, hardcover, previous owner's label on endpaper else near fine in lightly edgeworn gold and blue pictorial dj. A biography of the "Dean of Biblical Archaeologists.". 447 pages. Albright's life work was the living historiucal evidence for the events of the Old and New Testaments. This biography is told by two associates who were once his students. Legends grew about him even in his own lifetime. Book.

paperback. Condition: Good. Ex-library book with typical stickers and stampings. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Small nicks to top edge of DJ; small stain to bottom corner of front cover; else near fine in near fine DJ. B&W frontispiece portrait. 447 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is bumped and rubbed at spine tips and is lightly bumped and rubbed at the corners with a 1/4 inch tear at top front edge. 447 pages with index plus frontispiece photograph.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. (1975) 448 pp. Original green covers, very bright and clean. Spine ends bumped. Light foxing to top edge of text block. DJ lightly soiled w/ mild edge wear. Illust. w/ a b/w frontispiece portrait. Contents very nice.

xi, 447p., b/w port., dj.

Hardcover. xi, [1], 447 p.; front. (port.); 24 cm. -- Archaeologist in the Oriental Seminary of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. "Bright recalled Albright as "essentially a serious-minded man, not given to wisecracks and banter. But he had quite a fund of supposedly true anec- dotes. The classic among these is surely the incident of the lizard soup in 1932. Albright paid some of the Arab potsherd boys to catch a couple of the lizards that swarmed all over the place. Nelson Glueck was to conceal one of the (now deceased) lizards on his person, and during the soup course surreptitiously slip it into his soup. Glueck played his part masterfully, pulling out the lizard with a roar of shocked surprise and looking as if he were going to be ill. Albright shouted with well simulated anger, `I told that cook never to make that lizard soup again!'" (162) -- "He could pick up two or three [potsherds] and then knew just about when the particular layer in which they were found could be dated." (159) -- "His experience in Palestinian archaeology was one that few people until now,when the Israelis .can do this work, could have; he had the experience in the early times of being there personally and seeing everything." (p. 411) -- "There was never any precise line at which one could say, `Oh, Prof. Albright would not be interested in that.' He was, perhaps, the last example we shall see in this century in the United States of a Renaissance man." (427) -- "Because he was not working for his own honor but only to find the truth, and served only that one mistress, truth, he could afford to change his mind when more evidence came to light." (p. 434) -- ".he quoted Alexandre Vinet in French --`The truth, without the search for truth, is only half the truth.' (50) VG blue boards edgeworn illus. dj.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.