Burma Tapa dura - 1996

AVA Pub. House. VG+. 1996. Hardcover. Hardback in Very Good+ condition with Very Good+ dust jacket. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 237 pages. Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information. .

Bankok: AVA Pub. House, 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. Fine, Apparently Unread Copy, In Jacket With A Very Minor Bump To Crown. Reprint Of The 1901 Edition. Illustrated With Many Photos. Overweight Volume Will Incur Extra Postage..

AVA Publishing House, Bangkok, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. list of illustrations, five appendices, index and map. The text is illustrated with reproductions of sepia toned photographs and the occasional sepia toned illustration. Blue coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with gilt and yellow coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. This book was first published in 1901. One of the first books published for the western reader that detailed daily life in Burma of nearly 100 years ago. A little rubbing to the book corners and back strip edges. Previous owner's Chop to the lower right hand corner of the free front endpaper. A little rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and pages. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. [5], VI - XII, [1], 2 - 237, [3] pages,. Please refer to… Leer más

Bangkok.: Ava Publishing House.. [Reprint].. (circa1996).. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout, xii + 237pp, 27 x 20cm, appendices, samples of notated music, maps and index. From the library of Dr Andrew Selth with his name and chop on front free endpaper, some minor soiling dustjacket. A very good clean copy. The nine chapters in this volume look at many aspects of Burmese life including childhood and adolescence, manhood and occupation, trades and professions, the non Burmese living in Burma including the Shan, Karen, Chin, Chimpaw, Chinese, Indians and Europeans, the politics, festivals and death. Appendices include information of the structure of the Burmese language and Notes on Burmese Music (by P.A. Mariano). First published in London in 1901 this is an attractive reprint with the illustrations clearly reproduced. .