Gods, Graves, and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology
by C.W. Ceram, tr. E.B. Garside and Sophie Wilkins
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About This Item
Bantam Books, 1972. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 515 pages, with index, bibliography, chronological tables. Illustrated with b&w photographs of artifacts and digs on 16 double-sided plates; also a map and drawings of hieroglyphs, site layout, etc. Book originally published in German 1949, English translation by Knopf 1951. This "Second revised and substantially enlarged edition" issued by Knopf 1967, this Bantam edition 1972 of which this is the 6th printing. Mass-market paperback, wraps creased and worn, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned, a former owner's name written in big letters on fore-edge, notes by most recent former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff in front matter and on a smattering of other pages.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AEB-267
- Title
- Gods, Graves, and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology
- Author
- C.W. Ceram, tr. E.B. Garside and Sophie Wilkins
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Date Published
- 1972
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ARCHAEOLOGY, TUTANKHAMEN, POMPEII, TROY, CRETE, NINEVEH, BABYLON, HERCULANEU, UR, TEOTIHUACAN, SCHIEMANN, CHAMPOLLION, MESOPOTAMIA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Middle East; Anthropology; Archaeology;
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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.