Hermann and Georg Schrieber. Stated first American edition. Missing dust jacket. Hardcover is in Very Good+ condition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. No writing or markings in this well preserved edition, 344 pp. With illustrations, maps, black/white photographs, and index. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston.
The authors ransack the resources of myth and romance as well as history and science to evoke the life of vanished cities, their growth and decay, their glory and doom.
