Quiggin E C Ed (5 results)

Condition: Fair. 1913. No Edition Remarks. 656 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Rough-cut pages. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Black and white illustrations throughout. Black and white photographic plates. Minor thumb marking, foxing and noticeable tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking to gutters and hinges but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with moderate staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Prominent splitting to joints. Spine has heavier tanning with noticeable splitting, fraying and crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (assume none issued). 1st ed. f/piece portrait of Ridgeway with tissue-guard. xxv+656, plates ex-pag. & text figs throughout numbered by chapter, top edge gilt, uncut fore-edge (which has resulted in a few minor marginal cedge chips of little consequence); small faint heraldic 'Coll. De Sion. Lond' stamp above t.p. imprint, but no other internal markings of any kind, this stamp actually fairly innocuous, clean and tight with good end-gutters etc. Black cloth covers, with gilt heraldic motif centre front, clean and virtually unworn bar very small chip bottom spine and another, tinier, to top, faint round lib.label ghost lower spine. Contributors include numerous eminent figures from the worlds of archaeology, anthropology, classics and history including Gomme, Flinders Petrie, Tillyard, M.R.James, J.G.Frazer, Boyd Dawkins, Seligmann, Rivers, Haddon, Elliot Smith and C.S.Myers. Many of these attended the dinner on 31st July 1913, the seating plan of which is given on p.648 (80 attending in all, no women though!). A remarkable festchrift with papers on everything from Cicero to black figure vases and German river names to Torres Straits outrigger canoes. Uncommon.…

hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. Reprint. Gilt-stamped cloth, taller 8vo, 656 pp., profusely illustrated in b&w. Ex-library with minimal markings (Penciled markings to title, small library stamp to title). Spine sunned. Boards rubbed. Bottom rear corner slightly bumped. Internally, quite sound. Overall, very good. …

Freeport 1966 (Repr. ed. 1930). xxv,656 pp. With num.ill. Cloth.

Cambridge 1930. Ocl. xxv,656 (ex-libr.,some damage & repair).