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Tarquinia and Entruscan Origins


Hencken, Hugh

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages, hardcover. Volume 62 in the series Ancient Peoples and Places. Red toning to top text block. Mild edgewear to boards. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light fading to prelim pages. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951931


Price: $15.00 

 

Technique & Personality


Mead, Margaret, Junius B. Bird and Hans Himmelheber

Hardcover. New York , Museum of Primitive Art, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 80 pages, 36 b&w plates, 2 color. Three lectures given at The Museum of Primitive Art.

Record # 406855


Price: $15.00 

 

Textiles of Ancient Peru and their Techniques


D'Harcourt, Raoul/Grace G. Denny/Carolyn M. Osborne

Softcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, Reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 186 pages of text followed by 117 black & white plates. Slight fade to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611786


Price: $25.00 

 

Textiles of Ancient Peru and their Techniques


D'Harcourt, Raoul

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press , 1st US, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 186 pages of text + 117 pages of b&w plates. Severe rubbing and wear to dust jacket with several tears along edges and tape-repair to spine. previous owner's stamp on front end paper. Reading copy only.

Record # 856755


Price: $31.00 

The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan AgeLevine, Joseph M.
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The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age


Levine, Joseph M.

Softcover. US, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 428 pages. Softcover. Light normal age wear to covers.

Record # 2231079


Price: $23.00 

The Cambridge Companion to the StoicsInwood, Brad (ed.)
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The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics


Inwood, Brad (ed.)

Softcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 438 pages. Softcover. Normal light age wear to covers. Crease along length of spine. Name of former owner in pen in front end papers. Very light pencil marking, but otherwise tight copy.

Record # 2231053


Price: $23.00 

 

The Cultures of Mankind (4 vols)


Von Hildebrand (ed), Alice, Gary Wills, Ruth Brantl, Jilian Mates and Eugene Cantelupe

New York, Braziller, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Titles include: Greek Culture - The Adventure of the Human Spirit, Roman Culture - Weapons and the Man, Medieval Culture - The Image and the City, and Renaissance Culture - A New Sense of Order. Spines sunned. 380 pages each. Black & white photography and art. Box sunned with light wear.

Record # 205936


Price: $35.00 

 

The International Scientific Series: Man and the Glacial Period


Wright, G Frederick

Hardcover. New York , D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1892, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 385 pages, b&w illustrations. Previous seller's sticker inside front cover, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Water damage, slightly warped, covers stained.

Record # 808999


Price: $20.00 

 

The Kogoshui or Gleanings from Ancient Stories


Kato, Prof. Genchi and Prof. Hikoshiro Hoshino

Softcover. Tokyo, Japan, Sanseido, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages, plates of manuscripts translated included, fabric softcover; foxing evident on front pages, wear to edges and corners of cover, ex-library copy with stamp on top page edges.

Record # 802437


Price: $38.00 

 

The Wonder that was India: A Survey of the Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent Before the Coming of the Muslims


Basham, A.L.

Softcover. New York, Grove Press, Reprint, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 568 pages. Softcover. Some wear, staining and foxing on text block and cover and spine. Previous crease in back cover and final 50 pages. "With More Than 200 Half-Tone Illustrations".

Record # 2230502


Price: $23.00 

 

Three Regions of Primitive Art


Kubler, George, S. Kooijman and Hallam Movius

Hardcover. New York , Museum of Primitive Art, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 77 pages, 42 b&w plates. Three lectures given at The Museum of Primitive Art.

Record # 406854


Price: $15.00 

Thumb of Knowledge in Legends of FinnScott, Robert D.
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Thumb of Knowledge in Legends of Finn


Scott, Robert D.

Softcover. US, Kessinger Publishing Co, reprint, 2003-08-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 461222


Price: $25.00 

 

Tiryns, Mycenae, Ilios, Troy, Troja - 5 Volumes


Schliemann, Heinrich

Hardcover. New York, Arno Press, Reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 5 Volumes. Hardcover. Reprint editions. The 5 volumes are made up of: Tiryns - The Prehistoric Palace of the Kings of Tiryns. Ilios - the City and Country of the Trojans. Mycenae - A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenae and Tiryns. Troy and it's Remains - A Narrative of Researches and Discovies Made on the Site of Ilium, and in the Trojan Plain. Troja - Results of the latest researches and discovies on the site of Homer's Troy, 1882. All 5 volumes with black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copies.

Record # 611741


Price: $125.00 

 

Tragedy of Arthur, The (SIGNED)


Phillips, Arthur

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine, white cover boards and inside very clean. Dust jacket in good shape, covered in protective plastic. From the front flap: "The Tragedy of Arthur explores the tension between storytelling and truth-telling, the thirst for originality in all of our lives, and the act of literary mythmaking, both now and four centuries ago, as the two Arthurs -- Arthur the novelist and Arthur the ancient king -- play out their individual but strangely intertwined. ...Includes Shakespeare's (?) lost King Arthur play in its five-act entirety...."

Record # 30508


Price: $44.00 

 

Treachery in Crete


Palmer, Myron Tim, Illust. by: Myron Tim Palmer

Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Color, b&w illustrations by the author. Nice tight copy with previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. In an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket.

Record # 600148


Price: $40.00 

 

Treasures of Ancient Nigeria


Eyo, Ekpo and Frank Willett

Paperback. New York, Knopf, 1st wraps, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pges. Paperback. Black & white and color photographs.

Record # 204197


Price: $18.00 

 

Two Thousand Years of Oriental Ceramics


Koyama, Fujio & John Figgess

Hardcover. New York , Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 377 pages. 173 illustrations, with 54 tipped-in colorplates. Large, heavy folio. Edgewear, rubbing and tearing to dust jacket with chip missing from lower edge of front cover, and small strip missing from rear cover. Faint tanning to pages. Internally very good.

Record # 857042


Price: $100.00 

 

Umeni Ctyr Svetadilu: Z Ceskych Sbirek Mimoevropskeho Umeni-Vol. 1


Formanovi, W. a B.

Hardcover. Prague, Orbis, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 325 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Volume one only of two volumes. In an edgeworn dustjacket. Text in Czech.

Record # 403214


Price: $40.00 

 

Understanding Maya inscriptions: a hieroglyph handbook


Harris, John F.

softcover . Philadelphia, University Museum Publications, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2nd, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 247 pages. Softcover. Black and white illustrations. Light foxing, otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 469356


Price: $25.00 

 

Universe, The Gods and Men, The - Ancient Greek Myths


Vernant, Jean Pierre

hardcover. New York, H:arper Collins, 1st US, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Transl. from French by Linda Asher. 205 pages.

Record # 64503


Price: $23.00 

 

Varia: A Miscellany of Verse & Prose: Ancient & Modern


Brougham (Editor), Eleanor M.

Hardcover. London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1st, 1925, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages. Hardcover. Spine bound in red with gilt decoration. Covers show some foxing and a bit of soil. Pages show some age yellowing and slight foxing. Binding still quite tight. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf, dated August 1929. Previous bookstore price notation on back endpaper in pencil. Still in decent shape considering its age.

Record # 30801


Price: $25.00 

 

Vilnius: City of Strangers


Briedis, Laimonas

Hardcover. Vilnius Lithuania, Baltos Lankos Publishers, 1st English , 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. History of the ancient and present capital of Lithuania. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, mostly confined to top edge. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952129


Price: $38.00 

Virgil and the Augustan ReceptionThomas, Richard F.
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Virgil and the Augustan Reception


Thomas, Richard F.

Hardcover. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 324 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. "Damaged" stamped on title page due to bump to bottom outside corner of covers and text block. Otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230825


Price: $38.00 

 

Voices In Stone -The Decipherment of Ancient Scripts and Writings


Doblhofer, Ernst

Paperback. NY, Collier, rep wraps, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 327 pages.

Record # 56060


Price: $15.00 


  
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