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GUARDIAN OF THE HORIZON.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Morrow, (2004.) dj. Hardcover - Mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody. ISBN: 0-06-6214718.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 32633More details Price: $12.50 -
CHILDREN OF THE STORM.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Morrow, 2003. dj. Hardcover - A mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, set in Luxor at the end of the Great War. 400 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6214769.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 28097More details Price: $12.50 -
THE FALCON AT THE PORTAL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Avon, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody. 366 pp. ISBN: 0-380-976587.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket
Book ID: 42987More details Price: $18.00 -
THE SNAKE, THE CROCODILE & THE DOG
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 7th mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody. INSCRIBED on the title page "for --- She's the best" and signed Elizabeth Peters aka Barbara. Glossary of Arabic words and phrases. 340 pp. ISBN: 0446-51585x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66576More details Price: $60.00 -
CHILDREN OF THE STORM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, set in Luxor at the end of the Great War. SIGNED on the title page. 400 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-06-6214769.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 65548More details Price: $35.00 -
CHILDREN OF THE STORM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, set in Luxor at the end of the Great War. 400 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6214769.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 34807More details Price: $16.50 -
CHILDREN OF THE STORM.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Avon, (2004.). A mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, set in Luxor at the end of the Great War. ISBN: 0-06-1032484.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 36879More details Price: $10.00 -
THE SNAKE, THE CROCODILE & THE DOG
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 7th mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody. Glossary of Arabic words and phrases. 340 pp. ISBN: 0446-51585x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58952More details Price: $20.00 -
CHILDREN OF THE STORM.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Morrow, 2003. dj. Hardcover - A mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, set in Luxor at the end of the Great War. 400 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6214769.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 39832More details Price: $12.50 -
GUARDIAN OF THE HORIZON.
Edition: Signed, limited first edition.
New York: Morrow, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, set in Luxor at the end of the Great War. One of the copies with a page which states that this is a "signed and limited first edition, specially bound by the publisher" and SIGNED by Peters on this additional page. 400 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-06-6214718.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 51999More details Price: $45.00 -
CHILDREN OF THE STORM.
Edition: Signed, limited first edition.
New York: Morrow, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, set in Luxor at the end of the Great War. One of the copies with a page which states that this is a "signed and limited first edition, specially bound by the publisher" and SIGNED by Peters on this additional page. 400 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-06-6214769.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 51713More details Price: $45.00 -
CHILDREN OF THE STORM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, set in Luxor at the end of the Great War. 400 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6214769.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (bookseller's lines on bottom edge.)
Book ID: 51194More details Price: $15.00 -
CHILDREN OF THE STORM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, set in Luxor at the end of the Great War. 400 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6214769.
Condition: Very good in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name)
Book ID: 45790More details Price: $15.00 -
PASSIONATE PILGRIM: The Extraordinary Life of Alma Reed.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Paragon House, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Born in San Franciso in 1889, Alma Reed became an outstanding journalist, a pioneer archeologist and the heroine of Mexico. Includes black-and-white photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. 283 pp. ISBN: 1-55778-3713.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 14529More details Price: $25.00 -
CROSS BONES.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
London: Heinemann, (2005). Temperance Brennan becomes involved in an archeological mystery in Israel. Author's note. 351 pp. ISBN: 0-434-010413.
Condition: Very good (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 69748More details Price: $12.00 -
IRON TECHNOLOGY IN EAST AFRICA: Symbolism, Science, and Archaeology.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Bloomington & Oxford: Indiana University Press & James Currey, (1997.). First edition - A comprehensive look at iron technology in East Africa from ancient times to the present, the result of more than 20 years of research. Includes an account of the reenactment of traditional iron smelting by the elders of the Haya people in northwestern Tanzania. Illustrated with many photographs, maps, charts and drawings. Glossary, extensive bibliography and index. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-253211093.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 41652More details Price: $20.00 -
HOHOKAM.
Edition: First printing - a limited, signed edition.
Condition: Fine in brown cloth with an ivory spine label in the original acetate wrapper.
Book ID: 38387More details Price: $75.00 -
HOHOKAM.
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with limited edition hardcover.
Tucson, Arizona: SUN / Gemini Press, 1986. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A long narrative poem on the vanished Southwestern people we call the Hohokam. Includes an afterword by Shelton on the little we know of the history of the Hohokam, a prehistoric people who lived in South Central Arizona for at least 1500 years, before their civilization abruptly collapsed around 1450 A.D. A handsome production designed by Clint Colby and Charles Alexander, illustrated with photographs by Stevem Trubitt of Hohokam pottery sherds found at Snaketown, Arizona (dating from 700-1000 A.D.) and with a silhouette of Shelton by Rebecca Gaver. Sun Lizard Book Number 2. ISBN: 0-933313055.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86643More details Price: $21.50 -
NAMES ON THE GLOBE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - A fascinating discussion of the human dimension of place names - that is who gave a place a particular name, how has it changed over the years, and why has it changed. Divided into four parts: Man, the Namer, The Mind of the Namer, Namers at Work, Place-names as Sources of Knowledge - and within these parts, he examines the evidence of archeologists, poets, explorers, colonizers, folklorists and more. Considered by some to be Stewart's greatest and most significant work. Author's note, index. ix, 411 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5018958.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tear on back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 31812More details Price: $30.00 -
NAMES ON THE GLOBE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - A fascinating discussion of the human dimension of place names - that is who gave a place a particular name, how has it changed over the years, and why has it changed. Divided into four parts: Man, the Namer, The Mind of the Namer, Namers at Work, Place-names as Sources of Knowledge - and within these parts, he examines the evidence of archeologists, poets, explorers, colonizers, folklorists and more. Considered by some to be Stewart's greatest and most significant work. Author's note, index. ix, 411 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5018958.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86367More details Price: $35.00 -
THE HIDDEN OASIS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this former field archeologist and journalist - a thriller set in Egypt's Western Desert and revolving around the legendary lost oasis of Zerzura. 507 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-19182.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 45337More details Price: $18.00 -
LAND OF MARVELS.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89034More details Price: $18.50 -
FOOD, DIET, AND POPULATION AT PREHISTORIC ARROYO HONDO PUEBLO, NEW MEXICO.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research Press, (1986). First edition - Includes additional reports - Ethnobotanical Pollen by Vorsila L. Bohrer and Artifacts of Woody Materials by Richard W. Lang. Arroyo Hondo Archeological Series, Volume 6. Illustrations and tables. Notes, references. Index. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-933452160.
Condition: Fine in glossy white illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 75849More details Price: $25.00 -
THE PROPHETESS.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the very near future at the time this was written - in 1999 in a world gripped by milennial fever, and where a young archeologist has just uncovered a cache of papyrus documents in the Sinai desert. 390 pp. ISBN: 0-316816523.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (small black line on bottom edge)
Book ID: 67794More details Price: $13.50