Where the Incas Trod.
de Mass, Nuri; Mass, Celeste (illustrator)
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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Sydney, Summer Hill: The Writer’s Press, 1956. 1st ed.. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in fair dustjacket), dark beige board, dark brown title cover & spine (vignette front cover), black & white text-photos, drawings, map, pages lightly toned, top edge jacket creased (foxed, toned strip endpapers, few chips edges, few closed tears, reverse side lightly toned & foxed, corners little scuffed), light foxing edges, missing pieces top edge two pages (possibly uncut pages opened), autograph (author's written name front free flyleaf & loosely inserted card). 233 pp. This travel book for young adults by Nuri Mass is about the Incas of South America, who were one of the most mysterious of ancient civilizations. This is the story of a young woman, Celeste Mass, who left her Australian home and traveled halfway round the world to live with some of their 20th-century descendants. She lived among them for two years, in a tiny 'lost world'. Celeste, her Spanish husband and their small daughter, had fantastic experiences living among the Inca descendants. (Eagle on rock vignette on front cover. Autographed gift card loosely inserted. Complete reading copy.).
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- Librería
- Bookhome Sydney
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 40922
- Título
- Where the Incas Trod.
- Autor
- Mass, Nuri; Mass, Celeste (illustrator)
- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- 1st ed.
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- Editorial
- The Writer’s Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Sydney, Summer Hill
- Fecha de publicación
- 1956
- Palabras clave
- travel, adventures, young adults, ancient history, incas, south america, collectible, collectable, autograph
- Catálogos del vendedor
- TRAVEL & EXPLORATION;
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Bookhome Sydney
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Bookhome Sydney
Miembro de Biblio desde 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
Sobre Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Uncut Pages
- 'Uncut pages', or simply 'uncut', traditionally refers to a book which has not been trimmed by rebinding. Prior to the...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
