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Hardcover in original non price-clipped dust-jacket. 272pp., Notes and Referesnces, Literature Cited, Subject Index, Name Index. Illustrated with photographs. Published by Natural History Museum Publications/Oxford University Press. An examination of the 1912 hoax involving fragments of a skull found in gravels at Piltdown, Sussex. Of interest not only to biologists and palaeontologists, but also to those concerned with the history of 20th century thought and the nature of scientific inquiry. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, unmarked copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket.