Cole Engberg (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Chicago, 1940; green embossed cloth covered boards; corners and spine edges bumped; crown of spine frayed; sticker with title and date on front board; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 382 pages .

hardcover. Condition: Good. Includes dust jacket. Dust jacket is in good condition with some chipping along edges. Book shows common (average) signs of wear and use. Binding is still tight. Covers are intact but may be repaired. We have 75,000 books to choose from -- Ship within 24 hours -- Satisfaction Guaranteed. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. No DJ. Subtitle: And Life in the Ancient East. There is a 1/4 inch closed tear in a central location of 15-20 book pages (perhaps made by a point of a sharp knife). No other marks in an otherwise lightly read book. Hardcover scuffs on corners and mid spine edge, Binding tight.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xvi, 384pp, illustrated throughout. Richly illustrated endpapers. Monochrome plate frontispiece. In green cloth-covered boards, decorated with blind embossing, gilt titles and decorations on spine (boards just a little rounded at corners and spine ends). Some very faint, occasional spotting, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust marked upper text block edge. In its original dust jacket (rubbed and chipped at edges, minor loss at head of spine, a little faded). Small 4to. An account of the mysteries of the rise and fall of ancient nations and civilisations, and the people revealed by the discoveries and excavations of archaeologists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, now forming an insightful record of the state of research on ancient history in the mid 20th century. Sections and chapters include The Ancient Near East, The Prehistory of the Near East, Early Crete Greece and Rome; Early India; Early China; The Name of China; The Era of Myth and Legend; Tibet, The Mountain Kingdom; etc.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo. The University of Knowledge Wonder Books. Navy leatherette boards, gilt lettering and decoration to spine and front board. Pictorial endpapers. XVI, 17-384 pp. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar to front pastedown. Dust jacket is rubbed to joints and extremities, short tear to head of front joint and top edge of front cover (repaired with tape), soiling to rear. In this volume, Dr. Robert M. Engberg paints the background against which man is playing his part in the later days of civilization. This background is made up of the cultural contributions of many peoples far from us in distance and time: the Ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Syrians, Persians, the peoples of the Fertile Crescent, and after them and learning from them, the early inhabitants of Crete, Greece, and Rome.…