128 pages with frontispiece, diagrams, photographs, color plates, figures and index. Quarto (10 1/2" x 7") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Kenneth Hudson, a journalist and museologist, he was a controversial character of the European museum scene and inventor of the term "industrial archaeology" in the 1960s, a broadcaster and the author of numerous books. In 1963 he wrote one of the first books on the subject, Industrial Archaeology: An Introduction, and in 1965 his Industrial Archaeology of Southern England. He was the first editor of the Journal of Industrial Archaeology in which, with others, he produced an annual review of the rapidly growing literature. In 1972 he published his book on Building Materials in the Longmans IA series, and in 1979 he co-wrote, with Julian Pettifer, Diamonds in the Sky, the result of historical research on the social history of air travel for the BBC television series of the same name. Condition: Near fine in like jacket.

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Bookseller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: BOOKS003843
Title: The Archaeology of Industry
Author: A Kenneth Hudson (1916-1999)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First
ISBN 10: 0684145928
ISBN 13: 9780684145921
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1976
Keywords: ARCHAEOLOGY
Bookseller catalogs: Anthropology;
Size: Quarto

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