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Allyn and Bacon, Boston, 1891. 7" X 5" in pebble grained cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. . Lightly soiled, Rubbed at corner tips and along spine edge. Front hinge starting to crack. Nice color map on a binder's hinge. 284pp.. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1957. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8" in hard covers. Owner's bookplate on free endpaper. About VG+. Jacket is starting to chip at top of spine and to discolor slightly along top edge back cover - about VG-. This is the printed version of the Page-Barbour Lectures of 1955 at the University of Virginia. Contents very clean and spiffy. 201pp + 87 illustrations at end of book. X/P/N. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1976. 10.25" X 7" in gray heavy paper covers. A little light soil on cover, but otherwise clean, tight, unmarked: NEAR FINE condition. 55pp. FIRST EDITION. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine.

Antiquity Publications Ltd., 1982. 9.75" X 7.25" in cream colored paper covers. Clean, tight, unmarked: FINE. 4pp contents page laid in. Slightly larger than the magazine, its corners and edges are rumpled. Contents: The Hero of Lefkandi; Archaeological retrospect 4; A Maya Metal Worker's Tools from Belize; Treasure Trove: A Lawyer's View; The Coppergate Helmet; Gordon Childe: Man or Myth? 88pp.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Antiquity Publications, Ltd., 1976. 9.75" X 7.25" in tan heavy paper covers with staple binding. 1 smudge on front cover; minor soil; clean, tight, unmarked: VERY GOOD PLUS or better condition. 89-173pp. FEATURED: The Beginning of Iron in India; The Gunestrup Version of Tain Bo Cuailnge; Copper Mining and Metallurgy in the Vinca Group; A Twelfth-Century BC opium Pipe from Kition; Callis Wold Round Barrow, Humberside; Carthage.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

ANTIQUITY Publications Limited, U.K., 1928. 9.75" X 7.25" IN TAN HEAVY PAPER COVERS. Covers soiled; short tear at top of spine: GOOD MINUS condition. SOME of the articles: SHIP BURIAL IN ISLE OF MAN; ROYAL TOMBS OF UR; THE LAUSITZ CULTURE; PREHISTORIC FORTIFICATIONS IN BAVARIA; ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN INDIA; CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS IN SYRIA. All very interesting reading. 128pp.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket.

H.W. EDWARDS, Newbury, UK, 1950. 8.75" X 7.25" in tan heavy paper covers with red and black titles. Very minor soil. Clean, tight, unmarked: VERY GOOD PLUS or better condition. Partial contents:THE ANTIQUITY OF T'OU HU; APE-MEN OF SOUTH AFRICA; JARMO; PALESTINIAN EXCAVATIONS; much more. 169-224pp.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Antiquity Publications Limited, U.K., 1936. 9.75" X 7.25" in light tan heavy paper covers. Light soil and minor shelf wear, but backstrip is quite dark, although easily legible. Clean, Tight, Unmarked: VERY GOOD PLUS condition. 385-528pp PARITAL contents: MYCENAE; RECENT EXCAVATIONS AT AVEBURY; TEPE GAWRA; THE INTRODUCTION OF RABBITS INTO ENGLAND; ARCHAEOLOGICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; and much more.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Antiquity, Gloucester, England, 1967. 4 issues 9.75" X 7.25" in cream colored paper covers. ANTIQUITY is published in March, June, September and December. Original paper covers. Some very light soiling, but at least VG, probably better condition. 340pp. Scholarly and very worthwhile reading. SOME of the articles: "The C14 Chronology of the Central and SE European Neolithic;" "Plough-marks, Lynchets and Early Fields;" "The Ancient Cultivation of Hemp;" "The Bambur Sequence in the 3rd Millennium B.C.;" "The Egyptian 1st Dynasty Royal Cemetery;" "The Tartaria Tablets;" "Byzantines, Berbers, and Arabs in 7th Century Libya;" "Ay Khanum: A Hellenistic City in Central Asia;" "Mortuary Houses and Funeral Rites in Denmark;" "A Cosmetic Palette from Umm el-Biyara.". 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Antiquity, Gloucester, England, 1932. 9.75 X 7.25" in heavy brown paper covers. Articles: "Two Greek Fortresses in Sicily;" "The Oxford Excavations at Hira, 1931;" "The Paradox of Celtic Art;" "German Fortified Churches in Transylvania;" "Ancient Agriculture." "Roman Road from London to Sussex;" "An Important Link between Ancient India and Elam." Others also. Lightly soiled, Crease across back cover and large chip out of top edge of back cover. About G+ or better. EQ/VP/HE. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket.

Heffer, Cambridge England, 1965. 4 issues: 9.75" X 7.25" in cream colored paper covers. Antiquity is published in March, June, September, and December. The December issue has a bout a 1" ink stain along the top edge of the front cover. Otherwise all are VGor better condition. 324 total pages. Some of the articles: "Wooden Figures from the Source of the Seine;" "The Celtic Charriot;" "Brochs and the Hibernian Iron Age;" "The Azmak Mound in Southern Bulgaria;" "The Finglesham Man;" "Prehistoric Art in the Gebel el-Akhdar;" "The Productivity of Labor in Roman Agriculture;" "Wayland's Smithy;" "Hillforts in Wales and the Marches;" "The Mohenjo-daro Floods." Scholarly, but very worthwhile reading.. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Antiquity Publications Limited, U.K., 1986. 8.75" X 6.875" in tan heavy paper covers with black and red titles. Very light soil and wear; contents superb: VERY GOOD PLUS or better condition. 160pp. Partial contents: SPATIAL ORDER IN THE PLAEOLITHIC; THE LADBY SHIP [MOUND]; THE PAUTE VALLEY PROJECT, ECUADOR; DONORE: IRISH MEDIEVAL METALWORK; ORIGIN OF THE GUNDESTRUP CAULDRON. + much more.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Antiquity Publications, Cambridge, UK, 1971. 9.75" X 7.25" in tan paper covers. NEAR FINE condition. CONTENTS: "The Graveney Boat" (includes fold-out); "New Radiocarbon Dates From Ireland;" "Orient and Orientalizing in Early Celtic Art;" "The Royal Society and the Origins of British Archaeology: I"; "Radiocarbon Dates and the South Indian Neolithic Culture;" ETC. 84pp.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket.

University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, 1977. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8" in black cloth with gilt lettering and front cover design. Book is fine or better; jacket shows minor shelfwear. A conservative VG. This is "A chronicle of the discovery, excavation, and reconstruction of the ancient capital of the Shang Dynasty. X/P/N. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good.

APVA Prevervation Virginia, 2007. 8" X 9.5" [oblong] in heavy paper covers. Minor shelf wear - otherwise excellent: VERY GOOD PLUS condition. 95pp. Beautifully illustrated. [BC023]. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

The Archaeological Institute of America, Menasha, Wis. 1947 11 x 8" in tan paper covers. About VG. Interesting stuff - particularly the first article Re: "Earliest records of Christianity".. F. Soft cover.

U.S.A.: Kessinger Pub Co, 1990. 2 volumes: 10.5" X 7.5" in heavy green paper covers. Clean, tight, and unmarked: FINE or better. 944pp. [RARE]. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket.

ANTIQUITY, The Wharf, Newbury, Berks., England, 1951. 4 Volumes - 4 quarterly issues for the year 1951. 9.75 X 7.25" in heavy paper covers. The December issue has a few light smudges on the front cover and lower right corner bent. Otherwise Fine inside and out. PARTIAL contents: "Development of Native Homesteads in North Wales;" "Modern Pottery Trade in the Aegean;" "Some Disputed Examples of Pre-Conquest Sculpture;" "Corn Drying Kilns;" "The Gorsedd of the Bards of Britain;" "Recent excavation of Primitive Huts on the Palatine;" "Jews' Houses;" "Homer and the Monuments;" "Mesoamerican Fortifications;" "The Kensington Stone;" "Archaeological Research in Indo-China;" "A Bronze Ornament of Western European Origin Found in Northern Norway;" "Libyan Forts in South-west Cyrenaica;" ". 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

HarperPress, 2012. 10" X 7.875" in hard covers. This book would rate "like new" except for a date written on the back of the title page: FINE PLUS. This volume is SIGNED by the author on the title page. 336pp.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/As New.

University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1965. 9 X 6" in heavy paper covers. Lightly soiled, Rubbing at top of spine. About G+. Full of diagrams, timelines and tables. SCHOLARLY. 557pp.. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket.