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The American Indian: An Introduction to the Anthropology of the New World (Third Edition)
by WISSLER, Clark
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press:. Fair with no dust jacket. 1938. Hardcover. A third edition of this work, which first appeared in 1917. An examination of aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic to Patagonia. With lots of drawings, maps and a few photos. One of the maps, showing locations of various tribes in North America, is tipped in at rear of volume and folds out. --- In red cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Map of North America showing tribe locations laid in. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With underlinings in red and black throughout, page 264 with pasted-on listing of typewritten tribe locations, prior owner's signature to front free endpaper and with a partial split in mid-book. Covers with some soiling. Overall, a sound copy which makes it a useful reference, but with some damages.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); xvii, 466 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 82378
- Title
- The American Indian: An Introduction to the Anthropology of the New World (Third Edition)
- Author
- WISSLER, Clark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press:
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>American History & Politics;
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
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- Fair
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- 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....
- Tipped In
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