Published by John W. Swann, Portland, TN, 1957
First Edition
Staple Bound Pamphlet. Condition: Good. First Edition. News, gossip, obituaries, brief articles on collectors, accidents, wild animals, ads, clowns, performers, etcetera. This issue features Che-Mah the dwarf, circus town Hugo OK, old-timer Pete Sun, continuation of Lillian Leitzel and Alfredo Cordona story, two-year-old girl cyclist, trick-legged clown Ray Melzora, lion tamer Joe Horwath, calliopes, trapeze artist Marilyn Rich, William Lake's Wagon Circus 1863, Sylvester L. Cronin, Bob Matthews Flea Circus, etcetera. Stapled pamphlet, white covers, black titling; printed on paper of several colors. General wear, cover creased, center 4 pages loose. Text clean; 24 pages, a few b/w photos.
Language: English
Published by United Editions, London, 2011
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. Grey cloth hardcover with wrap around band included. Edges of board have very light soiling on the bottom. Unmarked pages and nice tight binding. Very nice copy.
Language: English
Seller: Meretseger Books, Paris, France
Monograph series of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology 37. Eisenbrauns, University Park, PA, 2018. First edition. In-4, xviii & 566 pages. Original hardcover, new. Contents: Preface / Erez Ben-Yosef. Section I. Timna Valley. Stratigraphy and Structure of the Timna Valley and Adjacent Ancient Mining Areas / Michael Beyth, Amit Segev, and Hanan Ginat -- Beno Rothenberg and the Chronology of Copper Smelting at Timna / James D. Muhly -- The Central Timna Valley Project: Research Design and Preliminary Results / Erez Ben-Yosef -- The Diet of Ancient Metal Workers: The Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages in the Arabah Valley (Timna and Faynan) / Lidar Sapir-Hen, Omri Lernau, and Erez Ben-Yosef -- The Sinai-Arabah Copper Age Early Phase (Chalcolithic) Mine T Excavations / Tim Shaw and Alexandra Drenka -- The Inscription of Ramessesmpere in Context / Deborah Sweeney -- A Preliminary Archaeomagnetic Investigation of the Yotvata Fortress / Ilana Peters, Lisa Tauxe, and Erez Ben-Yosef -- Who was the Deity Worshipped at the Tent-Sanctuary of Timna? / Nissim Amzallag -- Transgendered Copper Mining in the Levant / Laura M. Zucconi. Section II. Nahal Amram. Ancient Copper Mines at Nahal Amram, Southern Arabah / Uzi Avner, Hanan Ginat, Sariel Shalev, Sana Shilstine, Boaz Langford, Amos Frumkin, Rachamim Shem-Tov, Sagi Filin, Reuma Arav, Uri Basson, Omer Shamir, and Linda Scott-Cummings -- Volume and Mass Estimation of Mine Dumps and Slag Piles Using High-Resolution Terrestrial Laser Scans / Reuma Arav, Sagi Filin and Uzi Avner -- Evidence of Past Flood Intensities in the Nahal Amram Copper Mines / Hanan Ginat, Dagan Meeshly, Uzi Avner, and Boaz Langford -- Miners' Meals at the Copper Mines of Nahal Amram, Southern Israel / Liora Kolska Horwitz, Uzi Avner, and Omri Lernau -- Nahal Amram, Southern Arabah Valley: A Survey of Underground Copper Mines / Boaz Langford, Amos Frumkin, Uzi Avner, and Hanan Ginat -- A Preliminary Study of Copper Slag in the Southern Arabah Valley / Sana Shilstein and Sariel Shalev. Section III. Faynan, the Negev and Beyond. Intensive Surveys, Large-Scale Excavation Strategies and Iron Age Industrial Metallurgy in Faynan, Jordan: Fairy Tales Don't Come True / Thomas E. Levy, Erez Ben-Yosef, and Mohammad Najjar -- Key Features for Deducing Technological Innovations and Organizational Structures in the Bronze Age Mining District of Faynan, Jordan / Ingolf Lo_ffler -- Copper Trade and the Settlement Rise in the South Levantine Deserts in the EB IV / Moti Haiman -- Extractive Metallurgy in the Chalcolithic Southern Levant: Assessment of Copper Ores from Abu Matar / Aaron N. Shugar -- Bronze Chisel at Horvat Haluqim (Central Negev Highlands) in a Sequence of Radiocarbon Dated Late Bronze to Iron I Layers / Hendrik J. Bruins, Irina Segal, and Johannes Van der Plicht -- The Discovery of the Sinaitic Site Kuntillet Ajrud / Ze'ev Meshel -- The Origin of the Copper Used in Canaan During the Late Bronze/Iron Age Transition / Naama Yahalom-Mack and Irina Segal -- The Arabah Copper Industry in the Islamic Period: Views from Faynan and Timna / Ian W.N. Jones, Mohammad Najjar, and Thomas E. Levy. Section IV. Beyond the Southern Levant: Cyprus, Oman, Greece and Britain. Apliki Karamallos on Cyprus: The 13th Century BCE Miners' Settlement in Context / Vasiliki Kassianidou -- King Herod and the Cyprus Copper Mines / Shimon Dar -- Archaeometallurgical Research on Iron Age (1250-300 BCE) Copper Production in the Northern Al-Hajjar Mountains (Oman Peninsula) / Julie Goy, Michele Degli Esposti, Ce_cile Le Carlier de Veslud, and Anne Benoist -- Ancient Mining and Metallurgical Activity at the Gold-Silver-Copper Ore Deposits in Mavrokorfi Area, Mount Pangaeon (Northeast Greece) / Markos Vaxevanopoulos, Michail Vavelidis, Vasilios Melfos, Dimitra Malamidou, and Spyros Pavlides -- The Great Orme Bronze Age Copper Mine in North Wales: Opportunities to Link Ore to Metal / Robert Alan Williams -- Copper Mining and Smelting in the Briti.