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London : Adam & Charles Black, 1910. First edition. Legends, Homeric civilisation, Schliemann and his work, Knossos, Minoan culture, etc.
Post 8vo (22cm). (xvi),(274),[ii]pp. Plates. Maps. Original decorative cloth; top edge gilt; a very good copy indeed. Contemporary bookplate of Newton Don.

£50

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London : Phoenix House, (1957). First edition. An extended exploration of the caves and prehistoric cave art of France and Spain – “may be described as a book of archaeology, a book of art, as a book of travel and experience, but it is the fusion of all three which Mr. Grigson alone could have written”.
Demy 8vo (23cm). (224)pp. Plates, maps, plans, text illustrations. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt; top edge green; mild spotting of edges, but a very good copy in the Dodie Masterman dust-jacket – price-clipped, but with only the faintest wear. Small bookseller’s label of Sweetens Bookshops of Preston.

£25

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London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1981). First British edition. A biography of the extraordinary and “very odd” archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans (1851-1941).
Medium 8vo (24cm). x,278pp. Plates. Portraits. Original boards; a very good copy in a very good dust-jacket.

£25

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London : Cambridge University Press, 1912. First edition. An extensively researched and well-illustrated study of various aspects of archaeology and folk-memory – churches on pagan sites, secular uses of church fabric, the orientation of churches and graves, survivals in burial customs, the folk-lore of the cardinal points, the churchyard yew, the cult of the white horse, etc.
Demy 8vo (23cm). xii,(530),[ii]pp. Illustrations. Original cloth; lightly rubbed and a little bruised; a few spots, mainly to edges and endpapers, but a good copy. Contemporary 1912 gift inscription to Major R. B. Unwin.

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