New Archaeological Finds in China (Discoveries During the Cultural Revolution)
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. More
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History in Communist China
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1968. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. China's Great Leap Forward, beginning in 1958, touched almost everything in Chinese life, even the traditions of academic scholarship. The study of history was given special attention, offering the temptation of an entire past to be reinterpreted along Marxist-Maoist..... More
A Picture History of Archeology
London: Thames & Hudson, 1958. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Cloth. 310 illustrations in photogravure, 16 plates in full colour Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. More
The Lost Treasures of Troy
London: Quality Paperbacks Direct (QPD), 1994. Second Edition. Softcover. More
China: Empire of Living Symbols
Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate The origins of Chinese ideographs were not known until 1899, when a scholar went to an apothecary for some medicine made of “dragon bone.” To his surprise, the bone, which..... More
Maya: The Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilization
New York: The Viking Press, 1985. Third Revised Edition. Hardcover. This edition is published in conjunction with the exhibition Maya: Treasures of an Ancient Civilization organized by the Albuquerque Museum. More
Visions of the Past
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1983. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Illustrated with 8 pages of color photos, 127 b/w photos and 5 maps. More
Looking For Dilmun (A Pelican Book)
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972. Reprint. Paperback. Looking for Dilmun is about the search for a lost civilisation. It began with the hundred thousand mysterious burial mounds on the island of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf and with frequent casual references to a place called Dilmun in ancient cuneiform texts. More
Stonehenge Decoded
New York: Doubleday & Co, 1965. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Dr. Hawkins recreates the dramatic discovery of Stonehenge--a sophicated and brilliantly conceived astronomical observatory used by three different groups of people over a400 year period beginning around 2000 B.C.--; tells of the mythology that surrounds it and of the remarkable..... More
The Birth of China: A Study of the Formative Period of Chinese Civilization
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1954. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. A former Yale library book. More
Introduction to Prehistory: A Systematic Approach
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. First Edition. Paperback. More
Britain in Pictures: Early Britain
London: William Collins, 1945. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
The Dawn of the Deed: The Prehistoric Origins of Sex
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. We all know about the birds and the bees, but what about the ancient placoderm fishes and the dinosaurs? The history of sex is as old as life itself—and as complicated and mysterious. And despite centuries of study..... More
Assembling California
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1993. Cynthia Krupat (jacket design). First Edition (stated). Hardcover. At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips..... More
In Suspect Terrain
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988. Reprint. Paperback. From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana's drifted diamonds and gold In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting the three others―a biography; a set piece..... More
Teotihuacan: Official Guide
Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, 1968. Abel Mendoza (front cover). Eighth Edition. Softcover. Translated from the Spanish by Evangelina de Tentori. More
Rethinking Archaeology
New York: Random House, 1967. Adrianne Palmer (cover design). First Edition (presumed). Paperback. AS6. Part of the Random House Studies in Anthropology Series. More
Art, Religion & Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by author. The cave-temple complex popularly known as the Dunhuang caves is the world's largest extant repository of Tang Buddhist art. Among the best preserved of the Dunhuang caves is the Zhai Family Cave, built in..... More
The Hittites
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1962. Revised Edition. Paperback. A Pelican Original. #A259. More
How Old is the Earth?
New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959. George Giusti (cover design), R. Paul Larkin (illustrations). First Edition (stated). Paperback. Part of the Science Study Series, book no. S5. More
Corn: Its Origin, Evolution and Improvement
Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1974. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover (Outsized). Corn is among the most familiar of grains; it is also one of the most mysterious. In this handsomely illustrated new book, Paul Mangelsdorf, perhaps the world's foremost expert on the corn plant, summarizes the..... More
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
New York: Vintage Books, 1999. Reprint. Paperback. "Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--The New York Times Book Review From its origins on the still-forming planet to the recent emergence of Homo sapiens--one of the world's leading paleontologists offers an absorbing account..... More
Aurel Stein on the Silk Road
Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. More
The Celts
London: Thames & Hudson, 1997. New Edition. Reprint. Softcover. With a preface to the new edition by Stuart Piggott. Who were the Celts? To what extent have they influenced the composition of the modern nations of Western Europe, and of Britain and Ireland in particluar? In his search for..... More
Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972. Paperback. More
