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Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual and Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians
by Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0226707318
- ISBN 13
- 9780226707310
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1976. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 290 pages, indexed. Soft cover bound in white and yellow wrappers. The binding is rubbed and worn but sound; spine a bit faded. Prior owner's signature on the half title. Outside edges of the text block are foxed. Text has some underlining. Illustrated with a few pages of photos.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051631
- Title
- Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual and Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians
- Author
- Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0226707318
- ISBN 13
- 9780226707310
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago and London
- Date Published
- 1976
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- 1976; Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff; Amazon; Amazonian; Cosmos; Sexual; Religious Symbolism; Tukano Indians; South America; Brazil; Brasil.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy of Religion;
- X weight
- 1.1 lb
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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