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Adam in Ochre: Inside Aboriginal Australia
by Simpson, Colin
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No jacket
- Seller
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Meadows of Dan, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1956. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Fair/No jacket. 221 pages, illustrated with black and white drawings and black and white photographs. An account of an expedition of scientists to the remote top-north corner of Australia to attempt an understanding of the Australian aboriginal. Tan cloth binding with brown illustration on front cover and brown titles and bands on spine, illustrated brown end papers. Some edge wear and spotting, corner of back cover heavily chipped, other corners and spine ends bumped, spotting of page edges, interior pages a little foxed and stained, bottom leading corners of most pages chipped and creased, binding tight.
Measures 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches.
Measures 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Scraps of American History
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00651
- Title
- Adam in Ochre
- Author
- Simpson, Colin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fourth edition
- Publisher
- Angus & Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- history, science, sociology, anthropology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
Terms of Sale
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Meadows of Dan, Virginia
About Scraps of American History
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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