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The Hittites / O. R. Gurney.
LIBRA - Rare DS66 .G8 1954 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gurney, O. R. (Oliver Robert), 1911-2001.
- Series:
- Pelican books ; A259.
- Pelican books ; A259
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hittites.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 239 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 19 cm.
- Edition:
- [Second edition].
- Place of Publication:
- [Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ;] [Baltimore, Maryland] : Penguin Books Ltd., [1954]
- Contents:
- Introduction: The discovery of the Hittites
- Outline of history
- Hittite State and Society
- Life and Economy
- Law and Institutions
- Warfare
- Languages and Races
- Religion
- Literature
- Art.
- Notes:
- "A Pelican Original"--Cover.
- "First published 1952. Second edition 1954. Reprinted 1961 ... 1975."
- "Set in Monotype Bembo."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-231) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1976".
- ISBN:
- 0140202595
- OCLC:
- 4361029
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