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The Gentle Tasaday: A Stone Age People in the Philippine Rain Forest
by Nance, John
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151349908
- ISBN 13
- 9780151349906
- Seller
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About This Item
U.S.A: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. Hardback Second Printing. Hardcover Out-of Print Book and Jacket in Good+ Condition. Mylar jacket cover. Foreword by Charles A. Lindbergh. 64 pages of photographs. John Nance brings a moving picture of the Tasaday, a tribal people discovered by the outside world in 1971. He tells of efforts to protect them from 20th centuries dangers. Binding of bright green cloth gilt titled on backstrap, very clean and unmarked; bottom edges of boards rubbed with some areas along the bottom front edge rubbed through cloth. Tight and solid volume. A few pages (4-5) have small marks by text, otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Jacket with illustration of Tasaday in a cave dwelling, is clean with light wear to spine heel, spine head and upper edge chipped, an inch tear down rear edge of spine head. Now with archival protective cover. 465 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 1975, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York and London
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- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014509
- Title
- The Gentle Tasaday: A Stone Age People in the Philippine Rain Forest
- Author
- Nance, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0151349908
- ISBN 13
- 9780151349906
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A
- Date Published
- 1975
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- TASADAY, PHILIPPINES RAIN FOREST TRIBAL PEOPLES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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