The Ancient Near East...Texts and Pictures Relating to the Old Testaments, 1969, HC, NF.

Pritchard, James B. [ed]. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1969.  English, Near Fine, HC, 4to, 11 1/4" x 9", 274 pp. Red cloth over board, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, slight yellowing to endpapers, light warping to text block, otherwise, superior copy inside and out, with only the most minimal, unobtrusive wear to bindings, text-block, dust jacket and endpapers. Very Good orange pictorial dust jacket, featuring black-and-white images to front and spine, white and black lettering to front, back, spine, and interior flaps, minor wear to edges and chipping of orange coating, small hole on back flap edge, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar-sleeve. [vi] viii, 274 pp., replete with black-and-white images, Introduction by James B. Pritchard, sections I-XI: "Peoples and Their Dress," "Daily Life," "Writing," "Scenes From History and Monuments," "Royalty and Dignitaries," "Gods and Their Emblems," "The Practice of Religion," "Myth, Legend, and Ritu