Jade in Ancient Costa Rica Tapa blanda - 1998

Soft cover. Very good/No jacket. Cover edges are slightly worn. Back binding glue is exposed. Inside is unmarked.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998. Paperback. VG (Few marks and labels from ex-museum library owner; otherwise pristine.). Green & color illus. wraps, 127 pp., many color illus. "An exhibition that illustrates a particular moment in Precolumbian America when a group of works of art takes on a special and traditional singularity. The jades presented here, made over the course of about a thousand years in an area that today is chiefly northern and central Costa Rica, are precious, intimate objects, lustrous in surface, intricate in image, and totally personal in intent." Lavishly illustrated, with essays by Juan Vicente Guerrero M., Mark Miller Graham, Michael J. Snarskis, and Zulay Soto Mendez. NOTE: This is one of the original paperbacks from the Metropolitan's exhibition; it is NOT a print-on-demand publication or an ebook.

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 1998. Paperback. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fine copy. 1998. 1st. softcover. 4to, 127 pp. .

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Museum. New. 1998. Paperback. 0870998781 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- 128 pp. With 164 ills. (107 col. ). 28 x 22 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- .