Elephant: The Animal and its Ivory in African culture [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED]
by Ross, Doran H. (Ed.)
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- good+
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1992. First edition. softcover. good+. Quarto. 415pp. Original color photo-illustrated glossy black wrappers with white lettering on cover and spine. Photo-illustrated endpapers and title page. Copiously illustrated with photographs, maps, tools, sculptures, artifacts and paintings, all concerning elephants and the ivory trade in Africa. Texts by various scholars. Inscribed and signed by Ross. Wrappers are lightly rubbed, with edges lightly bumped. Bindings and interior in overall very good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36450
- Title
- Elephant: The Animal and its Ivory in African culture [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED]
- Author
- Ross, Doran H. (Ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Fowler Museum of Cultural History
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Ivory, elephants, Africa
Terms of Sale
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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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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Wrappers
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- Spine
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- Quarto
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Inscribed
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Edges
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