Description

Large format hardcover in non price-clipped publisher’s dust-jacket. 176 pages. Includes Further reading list, a Glossary of peoples and cultures, and index. Illustrated with 200 photographs, 102 of which are in full color, and map end-papers. First American edition, first printing. A survey of the art and architecture, the style and decorative motifs, of the earliest civilizations. Small previous owner’s label inside front cover. Dust-jacket protected by handsomely executed hand-fashioned clear acetate covers. A clean, square, and unmarked copy. Very good in a very good dust-jacket.