Ramses II and His Time

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co.. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1978. Later Printing. 1. Hard Cover. 038503394X . Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering and borders on spine, fore-edge deckle, maps on endpapers. 8vo. xii, 270 pp. Illustrated with B&W photographs. This is an unmarked, unread copy; the boards show only the slightest signs of shelf-wear. The unclipped dust jacket, now in mylar, is chipped at the head and has a small closed tear on the front panel, else fine. FINE/VERY GOOD. This is the sixth book in Dr. Velikovsky's series, "Ages in Chaos," and in it he propounds his "contention that more than once within historic times the order of the solar system was disturbed and cataclysms ensued; the earth became a primeval chaos lashed by tornadoes of cinders; the skies darkened; land masses were destroyed; and large portions of the human race perished." Dr. Velikovsky's books include: "Worlds in Collision" (1950), "Ages in Chaos" (1952); "Earth in Upheaval" (1955); "Oedipus and Akhnaton" (1960); "Peoples of the Sea" (1977); "Ramses II and his Time" (1978); "Mankind in Amnesia" (1982); and "Stargazers and Gravediggers" (1983).. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .