HARDBACK, ?HARD TO FIND,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1977* Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Glossy, laminated, photo-illustrated boards, blue and white titles to face. White titles to spine. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear. FINE* Jacket condition: Matching illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED but showing no shelf price. Absolutely minimal, shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to top-edge and prelims, otherwise no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: A small number of colour & numerous b/w photos, line drawings and diagrams within text throughout.* Pages: 199 pp. text. ix pp., reading list, list of illustrations & index at rear.* Description: Huge chambered tombs, then circles and avenues of massive standing stones at their most impressive at New Grange and Maes Howe or at Stonehenge and Carnac, were raised all along the Atlantic seaboard of Europe from Spain to the Orkneys some 5000 years ago. The understanding of the attributes of the builders of these monuments is changing and this book provides new insights into their minds. The Author proposes an ambitious new solution to the mystery of their construction.* A FINE text copy of the 1st/1st. with some minimal faults in a FINE protected dust jacket.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2117
Title: Megalith Builders
Author: Mackie, Euan W
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - F/F/F
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
ISBN 10: 0714817198
ISBN 13: 9780714817194
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
Place of Publication: Oxford UK. 208
Date Published: 1977-09-01
Bookseller catalogs: Archaeology;

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