Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka: Ancient Peoples and Places by Wheeler, Sir Mortimer - 1963

Readers Union/Thames and Hudson, London, 1963. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. 670 g.; VI, 7- 244 pages of which is the last 40 pages are black-and-white photography, list of illustrations/figures and maps, preface by author, notes on the plates and index. The text is illustrated with the aforementioned photographs, along with 32 black-and-white figures within the text and seven maps. Purple coloured cloth covered boards with gilt embossed logo of Thames and Hudson on the front panel and gilt titles to the backstrip. Purple coloured tint to the top text block edge. Rubbing to the lower book edges and fading to the backstrip edges. Illustrated dustwrappers with cream coloured background and brown titles to the front panel and backstrip. Chipping to the top backstrip edge and there is quite significant fading to the same area. Rubbing to the dustwrapper panels and there is clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. A book on the early excavation and archaeology India and Pakistan. Part of the Ancient Peoples and Places series. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dust Jacket price-clipped. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Archaeology; History -- Ancient ; History -- India ; Inventory No: 0109818. .