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The graphic art of the Eskimos: Based upon the collections in the National Museum
by Hoffman, Walter James
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 084669008X
- ISBN 13
- 9780846690085
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
U.S.A.: Shorey Book Store, 1974. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Book shows very light scuffing to blue cloth covers; gilt lettering on covers and spine. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind, woodgrain endpapers, a great many b&w photos, eight fold-out pages, all in excellent condition. Covers are heavy, library-style dark blue cloth, very strong and solid, nearly new. Very clean book. 968 pages. Rare in this edition. First Edition / First Printing of facsimile reprint, limited to 500 copies.
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- Bookseller
- Pistil Books Online
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 136499
- Title
- The graphic art of the Eskimos: Based upon the collections in the National Museum
- Author
- Hoffman, Walter James
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 084669008X
- ISBN 13
- 9780846690085
- Publisher
- Shorey Book Store
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- Eskimo Art, Exploration, Aleutian Islands, Prehistoric Art, Habitations, ornaments, labrets, Ivory, horn, Bone, Wood, metals, Animal Skings, Tattooing, Decoration, gesture Signs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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About the Seller
Pistil Books Online
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Seattle, Washington
About Pistil Books Online
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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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...
- Cloth
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- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- New
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