Townend G B (7 results)

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. dj. First Edition. Cloth, dj. Jacket spine, edges of panels, sunned and toned. Else fine. A sound copy with bright, clean internals.

Condition: Acceptable.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Very Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. Very good+/near fine hardcover with very good dust jacket. 1st printing of 1st edition, 1985, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, completed and revised by G. B. Townend following the passing of G.E.F. Chilver in 1982. Includes prefatory note from Townend dated April 1984. xii, 110pp, with index. From the personal collection of a since-retired classics professor. Interior appears free of markings. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine look almost like new. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Unclipped DJ has some age-toning. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1985 Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. DJ has light sunning. Mild soiling to DJ; Deals with the last few days of A. D. 69 after the death of Vitellius, the outbreak of the revolt on the Rhine, and events of the early months of A. D. 70 in Rome, German and the East, where Vespasian, now supreme master of the Empire, was preparing his return to Rome. Tactius displays his mastery in recounting not only senatorial debates in the capital but also the complexities of the war on the Rhine, in which Roman legions were demoralised and virtually destroyed before the new government was able to send fresh troops to restore the situation. Book V also contains Tacitus' curious account of the history and the country of the Jews, breakin off just before the destruction of Jerusalem.; 124 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very Minor shelfwear to DJ. DJ is discolored. Minor shelfwear otherwise to DJ.; Deals with the last few days of A. D. 69 after the death of Vitellius, the outbreak of the revolt on the Rhine, and events of the early months of A. D. 70 in Rome, German and the East, where Vespasian, now supreme master of the Empire, was preparing his return to Rome. Tactius displays his mastery in recounting not only senatorial debates in the capital but also the complexities of the war on the Rhine, in which Roman legions were demoralised and virtually destroyed before the new government was able to send fresh troops to restore the situation. Book V also contains Tacitus' curious account of the history and the country of the Jews, breakin off just before the destruction of Jerusalem.; 124 pages. …