Testaments of Time The Search for Lost Manuscripts and Records by Deuel, Leo - 1965

Alfred A. Knopf, 1966 32, 590, 21 pps. plus 16 b/w plates and numerous b/w line drawings including maps. Top of pages gilded red; right-hand side of pages is deckled. Owners name in ink appears on front endpaper. Text and plates are otherwise clean, tight, bright and unmarked. Red cloth-covered boards with gold printing on front cover and spine show minimal wear. Brown and white DJ with yellow and red printing is toned with edgewear and chipping. Now in protective mylar.. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 6.5" x 9.5".

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Gilt on red covers in a brown dust jacket. 8vo, 611pp. Spine ends & corners worn. Dust jacket heavily edge torn.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. hardcover. Very Good/Good. 9x6x1. Alfred A Knopf, 1965. Hardcover, xxxii, 590, xxi pages. Stated First Edition. Very good in good dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gold design on front and gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges and corners of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has several 1.5" or less chips and tears and light creasing along the edges. Light overall scuffing and and soiling to jacket as well. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Not Ex-library. No remainder marks. Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs, 186 drawings, and 5 maps. Typography, binding, and jacket design by Anita Karl [From jacket flaps] MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN about the "dirt" archaeologists who discovered the ruins, graves, and artifacts of ancient civilizations in Egypt, the Near East, Central Asia, and Mexico. After them came the scholar-adventurers looking for the written records of… Read More

Alfred A. Knopf, 1965T. hardcover. Good. 1.1102 in x 9.1299 in x 6.5709 in. Hardcover.\r\nHeavy wear to the dust jacket.\r\nminor cover wear.\r\nClean unmarked text. \r\nTight binding.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. xxxiii+590+xxi pp., 24 plates, ca. 100 ills., 5 maps papyrus and clay; oldest books; blible; Hebrew, Egyptian, Roman, Asian, Mexican; detailed study; very good condition

London, Secker & Warburg, 1966.. xxxii+590+xxipp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper ( chip at foot of backstrip).Black and white images. A very good copy.. First UK edition.

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. VG/G. 1965. First Edition. Cloth w/DJ. Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs, 186 drawings, and 5 maps. . 8vo., 590, xxi pp., Dj torn, back cover soiled and yellowed .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1965. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good+ in a Good+ dust jacket. Open tears on front and rear panel side edges. Small closed tears on top and bottom front panel. Edgewear on spine crown and heel. Shelfwear on spine and front and rear panels. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1965. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good- dust jacket. A few tears to jacket. Stated First Edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. 590 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white illustrations and plates throughout. Deckle page edges, lightly darkened and smudged. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles. Faded on the spine. Lightly worn around the edges. 1ST EDITION. VG/- -. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.