Culture of the Ancient Pueblos, Mexico & Arizona, 1914 Antique Book Walter Hough

Blue teal cloth hardbound boards with debossed gold gilt emblem on the front cover and debossed plain emblem on rear, with gold gilt stamped border to front board. Red text block on the spine includes title, subtitle, and author in gold gilt. The spine back strip has slight wear at the top. Boards show no wear but there is cosmetic spotting/discoloration, more extensive on the rear board. All corners are sharp but have slight wear at the tips. Spine is straight with no cracking at the beautiful marbled endpapers, hinges are strong. Overall text block is solid with all pages firmly attached with gold gilt along the top edge and deckled pages to the front. Age tanning throughout with some darkening along the page edges. Previous owner inscription on first blank page. Interior pages are clean with no tears, cracks, or other previous owner marks. Illustrated with twenty-nine black and white glossy plates and 348 full page and in-text figures. 139 pages including index.