History and Monuments of Ur.

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus, 1929

Stock code: 44606

Price: £200 Convert

First edition. Gadd, of the BM Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, took part in the British Museum/University of Philadelphia joint expedition to Mesopotamia. Exceptionally nice copy in the uncommon dust jacket.

Octavo, original dark green cloth, title gilt to spine, cuneiform decoration to the upper board. In the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 32 other plates. Head and tail of spine a little crumpled, some foxing, particularly to the prelims and fore-edge, otherwise a very nice copy in unclipped jacket.