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Secondhand book for saleJames Kirkman, ed.
City of San'a': Nomad and City Exhibition.
Publisher: World of Islam Festival Publishing Co., 1976.
ISBN 0905035143.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printed in the UK by the Westerham Press.
Size: 190x246x7mm.
Page count: 84pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: covers yellowed, some mild wear to the corners and edges; the spine is very yellowed but not creased from reading; internally looks in good order, text appears to be free of marking.
This item £6.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)Weight without packaging: 276g.
Published to accompany an exhibition at the UK's Museum of Mankind, held during the World of Islam Festival in 1976. Not laid out as an itemised catalogue, but rather as a narrative guide: a few selected exhibits are illustrated after the text. No medieval emphasis, but includes some incidental medieval material.
Contents: The market; The mosque; The public baths; The house; Costume.
Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: monochrome photographs throughout, plus 8 pages of colour plates
Maps & plans: 4
Genealogies: no
Chronology: list of rulers
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 1 page
Index: no[BML/exh]
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