Plundered Past

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 850 g; XXVI, 356 pages, last page blank, includes bibliography, index, chapter notes, appendices, illustrated with 24 pages of black-and-white photography. Illustrated dust jacket. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed across the top edge, and the top edge of the text block is… Read more about this item

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 850 g; XXVI, 356 pages, last page blank, includes bibliography, index, chapter notes, appendices, illustrated with 24 pages of black-and-white photography. Illustrated dust jacket. The dust jacket has a 0.5 inch tear at the top right-hand corner of the rear panel, the top… Read more about this item

London: Arts Book Society / Reader's Union Group, 1973. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Bound handsomely in an olive-drab cloth, bumping to spine head and foot, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little wear to panels, a bit to spine head, protected by… Read more about this item

Arts Book Society , London, 1973. Book Club Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Dust… Read more about this item

Paperback. Acceptable.

Paperback. Very Good.

n.p. Readers Union 2nd edition - hard cover in dust jacket Art has become big business which has led to unscrupulous depredations of ancient sites by looters armed with shovels, bulldozers and even dynamite. By the end of the twentieth century all unexplored major archaeological sites may be irrevocably disfigured or ravaged. 245 x 160 mm., pp. xxv, 353, b/w… Read more about this item

Arts Book Society, Readers Union, 1974. 353 pp, green boards, dustjacket with one tear with loss to front. B + w photographs. The traffic in stolen art and pillaged antiquities. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

Penguin Books Ltd, 1977. Paperback. Good. Traces of creases on the cover. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Different cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this book's net price to charity organizations.