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Headhunting in the Solomon Islands: Around the Coral Sea
de Mytinger, Caroline
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+/No Jacket
- Librería
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La Mesa, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York, New York: MacMillan Company, 1942. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Chronicle of a four-year expedition to Melanesia in attempt to document the lives of the "primitive" tribes living in the Solomon Islands, in 416 pages with map endpapers in front + scattered pen-and-ink illustrations & stunning black-and-white full-page photos of various tribespeople throughout text. At the urging of Margaret Mead, the photos were subsequently displayed at various museums around the USA; this book represented their first presentation to the public. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1942, this hardcover small octavo has rust-colored cloth over boards stamped with a native head in black to front & lettered in black to spine. Condition is VG+: very clean, binding strong & straight, pages modestly tanned, heavier to edges, but completely unmarked. Hinges secure. Slight offsetting to endpapers No DJ (missing). Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm Pacific time; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 023515
- Título
- Headhunting in the Solomon Islands: Around the Coral Sea
- Autor
- Mytinger, Caroline
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition First Printing 1st Printing
- Editorial
- MacMillan Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1942
- Palabras clave
- social anthropology anthropologists ethnology travel adventure Solomon Islands Melanesia New Zealand tribe tribal primitive photos photographs images Maori
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Photography-Photo Essays; Race/Ethnic Studies-Literature: General;
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Gargoyle Books
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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