Mountains in the Clouds
de Ruhen, Olaf
- Usado
- poor
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Poor/Good
- Librería
-
melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Rigby, Adelaide, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor/Good. 240 pages, list of illustrations. Illustrated endpapers, showing a map of New Guinea and its environs. Text is illustrated with numerous black and white photographs. Blue coloured boards with gilt writing on spine. The corners of book are bumped and rubbed and shelf wear is evident to the bottom edges of book. Head and heel of spine are bumped and soft. The front and back panel have mildew residue. The internal pages are brown. Photographic/illustrated dustwrapper, photograph of a New Guinea Highlander overlaying an illustrated painting of New Guinea village, black & white writing front panel and red and black on spine. Corners of the dustwrapper are rubbed, as are the fore edges. Chipping has occurred to the top and bottom dustwrapper edge, particularly on spine. There has been some staining to the dustwrapper, on the verso, along all creases. Grubby marks to the back panel. Olaf Ruhen travelled through, then, Papua and Australian New Guinea during the early 1960s, travelling through some of the remotest areas, meeting tribes who did not know that white men existed and pondered the islands' history. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; Sociology; Anthropology; History -- Papua New Guinea; Inventory No: 0100838. .
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Detalles
- Librería
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 0100838
- Título
- Mountains in the Clouds
- Autor
- Ruhen, Olaf
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Poor
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Rigby
- Lugar de publicación
- Adelaide
- Fecha de publicación
- 1963
- Palabras clave
- BZDB2 Pupua New Guinea -- Travels, Sociology, First Contact -- Native People, Micronesia, Pupua New Guinea -- History Travel & Places; Sociology; Anthropology; History -- Papua New Guinea; Unbranded Ruhen, Olaf Mountains in the Clouds
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Sociology; Anthropology; History -- Papua New Guinea;
Términos de venta
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
We are registered for GST and goods sold to an Australian delivery address will include GST. Our ABN 15 100 960 047
Sobre el vendedor
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
melbourne, Victoria
Sobre Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Mildew
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Shelf Wear
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- Dustwrapper
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- Edges
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- Gilt
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- New
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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