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Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. xi, 252 pp. Sporadic pencil notations to text. Fine condition. In this new book, influential archaeologist Ian Hodder discusses our human "entanglements" with material things, and how archaeological evidence can help us to understand the direction of human social and technological change.

Istanbul: Keskin Colour Ltd. Soft cover. Near Fine. 6.5" x 6" N.d., [ca. late 1960s]. Oblong. Soft cover. Unpaginated, [82] pp. Colour photos, fold-out map. Some light edge wear. A few stains to interior. Near fine. 0.

New York: The Viking Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Original jacket and publishers quarter-cloth blue boards and orange spine. Bline device on front board. Blue endpapers. xii, 279 p.p. Frontispiece, plus [5] leaves of photographs. A fascinating biography of Arthur Evans and his discovery of the labyrinth Palace at Knossos. Light rubbing to jacket with small tear to lower rear joint. Sticker ghost to upper front cover. Sporadic smudges. Light sunning to edges of inner flaps. Light rubbing to corners, edges of boards. Edges slightly sunned. Tiny piece of paper stuck to lower front board. Slight bruising at spine-ends. Sporadic stains to margins of leaves. Otherwise interior clean, crisp. A very good copy.

London: Published for the Bitish Academy by the Oxford University Press, 1958. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy. Reprint. Orig. navy cloth. xiv, 200 pp. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. Some neat pencil marginalia. Age toning to endpapers. Dust jacket is price clipped, age toned, some light bumping to extremities.

Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Orig. grey cloth. xxxiii, 85 pp. Fully illustrated, mostly in colour. Foxing to cloth, spine tilted. Dust jacket is price clipped, edge worn with a few small chips and short tears, 1.5" tear to upper rear corner repaired with tape, foxed to reverse.

London: Methuen, 1960. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo. Methuen's Handbooks of Archaeology. Reprinted. Full green cloth. xxvi, 311 pp., [LXIV plates B&W illustrations of coins]. Light bumping to spine ends and rubbing to corners, a few small scuffs. Light offsetting to endpapers, green marker ownership inscription to front pastedown.

London: Printed By Order of the Trustees, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo [tall]. Original paperboards, quarter bound with later spine. xiv, 325 p.p., [2] ads. Features a preface by E.A. Wallis Budge, prolific scholar and author on Egyptology, who worked in the Department of Assyrian and Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum. With [53] full page illustrations, and numerous in-text, showing artifacts, statues, papyri, and other treasures held in the British Museum at the beginning of the 20th century. Light rubbing and wear to boards, edges. Small tear at spine-head. Light foxing to pages. Glue markings to front inner hinge. Else a very good copy.

Toronto: Art Gallery of York University, 1973. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 72 pp. B&W illustrations. Errata slip tipped in. Slight age toning and curling to covers, about fine.

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1962. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Original red cloth. 176 pp. B&W illustrations in-text. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar to front pastedown. Some age toning to pages, bump w/ small chip to head of p. 129. Dust jacket is price clipped, a few short tears to extremities. In this exciting work, one of the great archaeologists of our time takes the reader on a world-wide tour of eighteen major archaeological sites. The trail-blazing finds at Nimrud and Troy, Mycenae and Knossos, Jericho and Maiden Castle helped open the door to man's past and made possible the development of one of the most provocative and fascinating of all the sciences - archaeology.

London: Turnstone Books, 1979. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo (imperial). Revised edition. Soft cover. 276 pp. B&W illustrations. Covers slightly sunned, spine tilted.

Villalongin, Mexico: Ediciones Lara, 1966. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo. Ancient People and Places Series. Paperback. 252pp. Illustrated. Light wear and fading to covers, scoring to spine, o/w very good. History of the Earliest Maya, Rise of Mayan Civilization, Maya Life and Thought and other information on Maya culture.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992. Soft cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. x, 311 pp. B&W maps in text. Fine.

London: Routledge, 1993. Soft cover. As New. 8vo. 210 p.p. Paperback. No marks, as new. This book presents how life was in the Bronze Age, with pictures, and illustrations by the author.

Athens: (s.n.), 1971. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo. Orig. pictorial wrappers, limited edition of 5,000 copies. 95pp. Illustrated. Front inner hinge cracked, light foxing to title page and endpapers, name on title-page with some underlining of passages, light wear and fading to wrappers o/w very good. Contains an overview of the history of Mistra, its monuments and archaeological plan.

New York: Avon, 1979. Soft cover. Near Fine. 4.25" x 7" Soft cover. A.E.R. xvi, 304 pp. Some light rubbing and creasing to edges, interior age toned, else fine.

Merida: Estudios Basso, 1983. 3rd Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Paperback, 278pp. Illustrated with b/w and color pictures and maps. Light sunning to covers, otherwise near fine. The author examines writing, language, architecture, transportation, food, religion and other examples of the Maya and civilizations in the Yucatan.

Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [xvii] 397 p.p. Original black cloth with gilt titling on spine, in dust jacket. Minor creasing to jacket.This is a survey of religious beliefs in the British Isles from the Old Stone Age to the comming of Christianity, one of the least familiar but most extensive periods in Britain's history. Ronald Hutton draws upon new data, much of it archaeological, that has transformed interpretation over the past decade. Giving more or less equal weight to all periods, from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages, he considers a range of evidence for Celtic and Romano-British paganism: from burial sites, cairns, megaliths and causeways, to carvings, figurines, jewellery, weapons, votive objects, literary texts and folklore. The author reveals the important rethinking that has taken place over Christianization and the decline of paganism, and reviews the progress that has been made in tracing the survival of pre-Christian beliefs and imagery… Leer más

Istanbul: Everest Publications, 2011. 1st English Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Contemporary Turkish Literature 9. Soft cover. 456 pp. Fine.

Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1975. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8.5" x 7" First printing. Oblong. Soft cover. 43 leaves (only numbered to recto). Illustrations with facing descriptions. Sunning to spine. Slight curling to front cover. Light foxing to endpapers. Interior clean.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Original black cloth boards. x, 436 pp. B&W frontis + map. Dust jacket sunned at spine, a few small chips to spine ends and edges. DJ is price clipped. Pioneer to the Past tells the intensely human, often poignantly moving story of the brilliant career of James Henry Breasted, the greatest Orientalist and archaeologist America has yet produced.