The Ayar-Incas (2 Volume Set): 1. Monuments, Culture, and American Relationship; 2. Asiatic Origins
by Poindexter, Miles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- vg
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. 2 vols. Decorated red cloth with gilt title to spine. Minor age rubbing to edges. Frontis. With the signature and bookplate of Bruce Bryan, the noted author and long time curator of the Southwest Museum of the American Indians in Pasadena, California. Illustrated with many b/w annotated photos, facsimiles and drawings, some of which in color. A very clean and tight set. In very good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11237
- Title
- The Ayar-Incas (2 Volume Set): 1. Monuments, Culture, and American Relationship; 2. Asiatic Origins
- Author
- Poindexter, Miles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - vg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Horace Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- South America, archeology, Peru, Pre-columbian cultures , Aboriginal culture , Polynesian Migrations, Indo-Aryan caste
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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- VG
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Rubbing
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