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Keeping Their Marbles; How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums, Tiffany Jenkins, Proof copy with detailed annotations by William St Clair

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$260.00
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Keeping Their Marbles; How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums – and Why They Should Stay there, by Tiffany Jenkins. A unique annotated pre-publication proof copy.

Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic and author. With extensive pencil notations in his hand, particularly at front and rear of book. Please see our other listings for related works.

Published by Oxford University Press, 2016. Stated first edition, first impression (although pre-publication at this stage). 

A good pre-publication proof paperback with white cloth spine, as issued. A well used copy - a little bent and with wear marks and a few stains. Very much a true working copy used by William St Clair. Text bright, clean and soundly bound. 

ix + 353pp (and with some page numbering issues at the rear still to be fixed before publication).

Text in English.

Weight approximately 632g (unpacked).

Dimensions: Approximately 240mm high x 170mm wide x 20mm deep.