414pp; some black and white plates, numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Black cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine; top text block edge sprayed red; brown endpapers. 4to. Sun-faded spine, rubbed corners and spine ends. Top text block edge colour fading, remaining edges tanning. Pastedowns colour fading; bookseller's label front pastedown; page margins tanning. Otherwise, internally neat, clean and tight.
The author, Alexander Marshack, was an American independent scholar and Paleolithic archaeologist.
