Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia
by THOMAS, Northcote W
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1906 [first edition]. Octavo, xiv, 163 pages with a map plus 2 folding maps and a folding table. Burgundy cloth a little flecked; front cover slightly scuffed; spine slightly marked and sunned; endpapers foxed and lightly discoloured; a very good copy. With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of Edward Charles Stirling on the front pastedown. One of the Cambridge Archaeological and Ethnological Series. Of considerable North Australian interest.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 128993
- Title
- Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia
- Author
- THOMAS, Northcote W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1906
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- Octavo
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- Foxed
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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