THE PILTDOWN MEN

St. Martin’s, New York, 1972, 1^st thus.  Hard cover, 264 pages including Appendices, Select Bibliography, and Index.  Very good plus; tight binding with a very slight lean; dust jacket with price intact shows a few light scratches.  Book interior clean and unmarked; black & white photos and illustrations.  ‘Piltdown has become a notorious name in archaeology.  This was the place where, in 1912, a respected amateur archaeologist, Charles Dawson, discovered the skull of a creature thought to be the long sought for and long argued about “missing link”. … it was accepted by scholars everywhere.  And then, in 1953, modern research established that the skull was a hoax, the spurious amalgam of fragments of a fairly recent skull and what was believed to be the jaw of a female orang-utan.’ (from front flap)