Life And Death Of A Pharaoh: Tutankhamen by Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt - 1969

Readers Union, 1964. Hardcover. Good. 1964. This Edition. 312 pages. No dust jacket. Brown embossed cloth with gilt lettering. Colour photographic frontispiece with black and white and colour photographic plates throughout. Light tanning to pages with light and infrequent cracking to gutters; binding otherwise remains firm. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild water staining and scuffing overall. Spine has soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear.

New York: New York Graphic Society. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1963. Second Printing. Hardcover. The author describes the life and spectacular tomb of this most famous Pharaoh. Original publisher's blue cloth covers with gilt spine and cover lettering and decoration. There are 75 beautiful color photographs as well as many black & white illustrations that accompany the text. This is a clean, tight and bright book with no interior or exterior markings, no previous owner names and no bookplates. There is a short closed tear to the top edge of the dust jacket, else it is in nice condition with 15.00 price on the inside flap. It is a small quarto-sized book. ; Color & B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 312 pages .

BCA ( Book Club Associates ), 1971 BCA ( Book Club Associates ) 1971 hardback no jacket gilt titles to spine with turquoise boards, 222 pages with many b/w illustrations and 32 Colour Plates, some tanning to boards edges Otherwise inside in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

An impressive combination of text and colour plates - the life of the boy-king, his death, and his tomb, the discovery of the tomb by Howard Carter in 1922 and the objects found. 312 pages with 75 colour and 187 black and white illustrations. Book in very good+ condition with some wear to cover.

Publication for members only. After forty years of study and conservation the treasures of Tutankhamen's tomb are displayed to the world and the author was in charge of that study. 223 pages with 32 colour Plates and 132 black and white illustrations. Book in good+ condition with previous owners stamp on first page, some foxing to leading edges, and tear to front cover endpaper but all sound, and cover has some wear, No dust jacket.

Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society, 1978. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Near fine/near fine, 10th printing, used, illustrated end papers, 312pp. Interior clean, no marks, binding tight. Slight rubbing to dj, no chips or tears. .

London,[New York] : New York Graphic Society, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; 312 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Subject; Tutankhamen King of Egypt.

The Connoisseur Michael Joseph, 1972. Hardback. good/good but discolured on the top edge, very sightly chipped. 1972 with DW, foxed top

Penguin, 1989. Paperback. Very Good/n/a. seems unread