The Lake Pleasant Project/Lake Pleasant II (Two Volume Set)

Description

Authors: Fish, Paul R. (The Lake Pleasant Project), and Huckell, Bruce B. (Lake Pleasant II)

Publisher: Arizona State Museum

Pub Date: 1971 (Project) and 1973 (II)

Binding: Paperback

Condition: The Lake Pleasant Project: Fair.  Ex-corporate library.  Stapled binding tight.   No tears, bends or folds.  Tape shadow on lower front cover corner at spine foot.  Tape and library tag missing.  Previous owner’s (first? second?) stamp on upper front cover corner.  Photos nicely reproduced.  Very light edge and corner wear.   Lake Pleasant II:  Fair.  Ex-corporate library.  Stapled binding tight.  No tears, bends, or folds.  Library tag taped to bottom front cover corner at spine foot.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes: Two Volume Set.  The Lake Pleasant Project: A Preliminary Report on the Excavation of the Beardsley Canal Site, A Colonial Hohokam Village on the Agua Fria River, Central Arizona.  Lake Pleasant II: A Preliminary Report on the Second Excavation at the Beardsley Canal Site, A Pioneer and Colonial Hohokam Site on the Lower Agua Fria River, Central Arizona.  Two highway salvage reports, prior to the construction of a new highway.  Project focuses on the excavation of the Beardsley Canal site, while Volume II, on the same site, was to gather additional information on the southern edge of the site, rather than the eastern edge reported in Volume 1.  These reports may have been the authors’ first opportunities for publication.  Lake Pleasant is a CAP reservoir.  SOLD AS A SET ONLY.  VERY RARE.  No other sets available for sale.