Description

Hardcover, folio size volume bound in white cloth and worn, price-clipped dust-jacket. 296 pages. Select Bibliography, Index, etc. Introduction by Tamara Talbot Rice. Illustrated with maps, 331 captioned color photographs by Werner Forman and 23 captioned site diagrams. First American edition. No previous ownership marks. Book is clean, tight and unmarked but for mild toning to white cloth at spine ends where dust-jacket is missing. Dust-jacket is generally edge-worn, price-clipped and lacking large chip from lower spine and exhibits damage and tape repair to upper spine. A very good+ copy in a poor dust-jacket. Included is a small oblong pamphlet published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and entitled “From the Lands of the Scythians: Ancient Treasures from the Museums of the U.S.S.R. 3000 B.C.-100 B.C.” Not paginated (20 pages). Illustrated with photographs and diagrams. An overview and brief catalog of the exhibition on loan from Russia. Media mail only, please contact us before ordering if different method requested.