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Abelard-Schuman, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1959. 160 pages. Orange dust jacket with white lettering over brown cloth. Illustrated by Laszlo Matulay. B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners. Clipped dust jacket. Mild wear and tear to edges and corners. Notable sunning to spine and edges. Minor staining and soiling to DJ.

Gift inscription. Signed by author. Pictures on request

London Abelard-Schuman 1959. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very good+ in a very good dust jacket. Top edge of book lightly soiled, corners of book lightly bumped. Dj has 2 closed edge tears. Illustrated by Laszlo Matulay. First edition..

2 Small library stamps, FLEP, BLEP. Private Temple Name & Presentation Plate FLEP, Residual glue from pocket removal, BPD, name written near shadow, else content appears as, unread and unblemished with fine tan cloth covered boards in DJ displaying moderate surface/edge wear, with reinforces & repaired chipping and small closed tears, as shown. Taped ID at Heel of spine.Not all archaeology is the province of specialists. Here is a collection of true stories of important finds, and more than half of them had their initial impetus in chance discoveries. Women tourists buy scraps of manuscripts in a market; an Israelite farmer unearths an ancient tomb; another man with his plough discovers the clue to an ancient library; Shapira and ancient sheepskins, probable precursors of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which in turn were found by curious boys. These are fascinating stories, most of them leading to important finds,- the Moabite Stone, the Codex Sinaiticus, the library of Nineveh, the… Read More