Search Results: tutankhamen and other essays by weigall arthur

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924. Hardcover. Fair Cover Mottled/No . Octavo, [22.5cm/9inches], full ebony-embossed ochre-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp. vii, 368, indexed. Illustrated with frontis and 16 b-w halftones &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Weigall found work with Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, first at University College London and then at Abydos in Egypt. Life with Flinders Petrie was notoriously harsh, and after a while Arthur Weigall went to work for Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing, a German Egyptologist. In early 1905 Howard Carter was staying with Arthur Weigall at Saqqara when after an incident with some French tourists, Howard Carter was forced to resign his post as Chief Inspector of Antiquities for Upper Egypt. Suddenly, at the age of 25, Arthur Weigall was appointed to replace Howard Carter at Luxor, responsible for protecting and managing the antiquities of a region that extended from Nag Hammadi to the border… Read More

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue cloth, illus. and lettered in gilt. 1st edition with GHD colophon on copyright page. 368 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. Modest shelf wear, cloth a bit soiled along lower portions of both panel, with a few light surface marks, mildly rubbed extrems. Front hinge slightly starting, with evidence of neat repair. Clean text block, a bit toned..

Kessinger Publishing Co, 2003-03-01. Paperback. Very Good. 2.0558 in x 27.9188 in x 20.9391 in. .

Doran, 1924-06. Hardcover. Good.

George H. Doran Co 1924. Super octavo hardcover (scruffy); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2003-03-31. Paperback. Used:Good.

New York: George H. Doran, 1924. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Previous owner's inscription to the front endpage. Internally fine, the cloth is worn at the outer extremities of the boards and the spine, with fraying to the head of the spine. Front board aslo has a few stains.

Thornton Butterworth, 1923. Hardcover. Good. 1923. First Edition. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Rough-cut pages. Black and white photographic plates. Minor thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking and staining to gutters but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

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New York: George H. Doran Co., 1924. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. xi, [3], 15-368 p. 23 cm. B&w plates. Tan cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket has chips and tears to edges, some affecting text. Spine lean, boards warped, some soiling to cloth. Ink inscription removed from front free endpaper. Bookplate on front endpaper with ink inscription.

Paperback / softback. New. At one point a set designer, and then later a film critic, Arthur Weigall (1880-1934) is chiefly remembered as an Egyptologist. This 1923 work, written in response to surging public interest following the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb, covers archaeological and historical subjects, with the tomb as its starting point.

London; Thornton Butterworth, 1923 1st edition good brown cloth hardcover, no dj. 286p. plus index and 18p. of plates. State library copy with some stamps but no pockets, date due etc. Chapters also include The ancient ghouls of Thebes, The quarries of Wady Hammamat, The Red Sea highroad, The Imperial Porphyry quarries, The quarries of Mons Claudianus, The temple of Wady Abad, The flooding of the lower Nubia.

1923. (London), Thornton Butterworth, (1923). Orig. full cloth. Frontispiece. 286,(2) pp. and plates.

London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923. First edition in good used condition, Thornton Butterworth 1923, a serviceable reading copy with wear and browning, dust to edges, but intact and sound; re-bound in brown cloth with the title cloth strip laid onto spine; new endpapers; small brown marks and perforations to prelims; illustrated with sepia photographs.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

London.: Thornton Butterworth.. 1923.. Black and white photographic plates, 288pp, index, some occasional light foxing somewhat heavier on fore and lower edges, original cloth trifle rubbed, good copy. .

Paperback / softback. New.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. Paperback. New. 11x8x0.