The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom
by THOMSON, BASIL
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
William Heinemann 1908. Super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xx + 396pp, illus + folding table at rear, VG- (lacks fep, heavy fading & staining to boards, light tanning to page edges, heavy tape-residue staining to front & rear pastedowns, owner's name in ink to half-title page, staining to half-title page, moderate pencil annotations to rear eps, light sporadic foxing).
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- Title
- The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom
- Author
- THOMSON, BASIL
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann 1908
- Keywords
- Basil Thomson Fiji Fijian history customs
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