James Mellaart (147 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Condition: Good. Reprint. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Plates And Drawings (illustrator). A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Bibliography: p. 136-137. An examination of man's development as a food-producer based on recent archaeological and anthropological research.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing, Trade PB in photo wraps. Near Fine. Ex-lib. 300pp inc. Index; illustrated in maps, diagrams, drawings. Ex-Library.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Plates And Drawings (illustrator). White titles on multicolored illustrated soft covers, 143 pages including bibliography, list of illustrations and index. Previous owner's name inked at top of title page. Covers are beginning to splay outwards. Illustrated with color and b/w illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. GOOD+ orange tape spine over white cloth, bagged for protection, heavy bumps and rubbed through corners, rubbings to surfaces of covers, sun-faded spine, book is well bound, paper is generally clean. Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com Orders shipped via USPS.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Near fine. 300pp. Biblio. Index. 164 illustrations. Maps. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 143pp with colour and b&w illustrations.

paperback. Condition: Good. Plates And Drawings (illustrator). Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Trade Paperback. Condition: VERY GOOD-. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). (2nd printing, 1981). Tight, bright, clean and square. Covers have worn corners and rubbed edges with light creasing. Interior is unmarked. "by assembling and correlating the substantial body of material available, Mr. Mellaart has provided us with a lucid and coherent account . His territory extends from the Balkans to Central Asia, while the time-span covered totals some ten thousand years.". 300 indexed, annotated, illustrated pages including List of Radiocarbon Dates, Bibliography and Abbreviations. 1.6.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1975. Scribners. First Printing. Prev owner name inside front cover otherwise pages all clean and bright no marks. Red cloth hardcover is clean and bright. Dust jacket is clean and bright, light shelf wear no tears. Price is intact on jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Has DJ (edge wear).

Cloth. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. (1965), 143pp, illus., bookplate to front free ep has been removed, dj flaps had been glued down, have since come loose, but glue still remains on eps & dj flaps, slight edgewear to dj.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Thames and Hudson (Designed and Produced by) (illustrator). 143 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear and crisp pages. Slightly creased spine. Occassional pencil markings on text.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). The Neolithic of the Near East (1975) by James Mellaart ? Thames & Hudson ? ISBN: 0500790035 Condition: Good ? Offered by Crappy Old Books Picture this: somewhere between the last Ice Age and the invention of coffee, a few spectacularly ambitious villagers in the Levant looked at wild wheat and said, ?What if we? owned breakfast?? James Mellaart?s The Neolithic of the Near East is the grand, trowel-in-hand tour of that audacious moment when humans stopped chasing dinner and persuaded it to grow politely in rows. Mellaart?who spoke fluent stratigraphy and could read a tell like a diary?maps the whole transformation: from round huts to right-angled living, from hunter?s luck to farmer?s logistics, from ?nice rock? to obsidian supply chain . He ushers you through Jericho?s early walls (yes, before the trumpet section), Çatalhöyük?s stacked rooms, Anatolian figurines with opinions, plastered skulls that stare back at your modern sensibilities, sickle gloss that tells on industrious harvesters, stamp seals, storage bins, and the moment pottery makes everything both more practical and somehow messier. This is classic Thames & Hudson : crisp prose, site plans and photographs, line drawings that make you feel clever, and a sweep of argument that places the Near Eastern Neolithic at the very hinge of history?the bit where ?culture? stops being a campfire and becomes infrastructure. Mellaart?s specialty is turning mudbrick and seed impressions into narrative: why villages grew where they did, how households coordinated without a meeting app, and what happens to a society when agriculture turns surplus into status and storage jars into stories. Inside, you?ll encounter: Pre-Pottery Neolithic A & B behaving like a two-part pilot episode?stone tips, communal architecture, then the big pottery reveal. Architectural plot twists: round to rectangular houses, rooftop streets, rooms that remember their own renovations. Domestication drama: sheep, goats, wheat, barley?plus the political career of the humble storage pit. Ritual & everyday life interleaved: wall paintings, figurines, skulls with plaster smiles, and the daily choreography of grinding grain. Trade before trucks: obsidian routes flashing across Anatolia like Stone Age fiber optics. For whom is this happily earth-toned epic? The reader who wants one book that makes the whole Near Eastern Neolithic feel legible, vivid, and unexpectedly funny. The armchair excavator who enjoys a well-argued stratigraphic section. Anyone who suspects that civilization began not with kings, but with cottages, storage jars, and people negotiating whose turn it is to grind. Condition notes (from your friends at Crappy Old Books ): Graded Good ?the respectable kind. Text clean and readable, binding steady, pages with the sort of mild, well-traveled patina that whispers of prior scholarly crushes. Expect light shelf wear, a touch of age toning, and perhaps the occasional archaeological fingerprint (the book?s, not yours). In short: sturdy enough for field camp, handsome enough for the bookshelf. Why you?ll actually finish it: Because Mellaart treats the Neolithic not as a prelude but as the main act ?the invention of home, of neighborhood, of tomorrow. By the last page, you?ll look at a loaf of bread like it?s a triumphant piece of technology (which it is), and you?ll never underestimate a mudbrick again. Crappy Old Books : rescuing the past, one gloriously annotated timeline at a time.