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King of the confessors / Thomas Hoving.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NK5943 .H68
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoving, Thomas, 1931-2009.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hoving, Thomas, 1931-2009.
- Hoving, Thomas.
- Bury Saint Edmunds Cross.
- Cloisters (Museum).
- Christian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Christian art and symbolism.
- Christian art and symbolism--Medieval.
- Ivories, Romanesque--England.
- Ivories, Romanesque.
- England.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 365 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon and Schuster, [1981]
- Contents:
- In the beginning ...
- The waiting game
- The game is joined
- The quest commences
- Fakes and treasures
- "Faupic"
- The cross
- Sleight of hand
- Harsh conditions
- A certain vision
- The singer and the song
- Revelations
- Out of focus
- A game of chess
- A litany of hatred
- Confessions
- Going, going ...
- The stroke of midnight
- Hugo the master
- King of the confessors
- Scholars, rivals and spies.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-354) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0671433881 :
- OCLC:
- 7576217
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