Where the Incas Trod.
by Mass, Nuri; Mass, Celeste (illustrator)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
Sydney, Summer Hill: The Writer’s Press, 1956. 1st ed.. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in fair dustjacket), dark beige board, dark brown title cover & spine (vignette front cover), black & white text-photos, drawings, map, pages lightly toned, top edge jacket creased (foxed, toned strip endpapers, few chips edges, few closed tears, reverse side lightly toned & foxed, corners little scuffed), light foxing edges, missing pieces top edge two pages (possibly uncut pages opened), autograph (author's written name front free flyleaf & loosely inserted card). 233 pp. This travel book for young adults by Nuri Mass is about the Incas of South America, who were one of the most mysterious of ancient civilizations. This is the story of a young woman, Celeste Mass, who left her Australian home and traveled halfway round the world to live with some of their 20th-century descendants. She lived among them for two years, in a tiny 'lost world'. Celeste, her Spanish husband and their small daughter, had fantastic experiences living among the Inca descendants. (Eagle on rock vignette on front cover. Autographed gift card loosely inserted. Complete reading copy.).
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40922
- Title
- Where the Incas Trod.
- Author
- Mass, Nuri; Mass, Celeste (illustrator)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Writer’s Press
- Place of Publication
- Sydney, Summer Hill
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- travel, adventures, young adults, ancient history, incas, south america, collectible, collectable, autograph
- Bookseller catalogs
- TRAVEL & EXPLORATION;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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