Description

Hardcover, quarto sized volume bound in black cloth boldly lettered in white and publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 280 pages. Bibliography, Index. Copiously illustrated with color photographs, line drawings and diagrams, and map end-papers. First edition, first printing with full number line. A survey of the history of 2,000 years of pyramid building and the origin and development of hieroglyphic writing. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy in a complete dust-jacket with no tears or chips. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket.