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Mastercraftsmen of Ancient Peru
by Sawyer, Alan R
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Newark, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
[New York]: [Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation], [1968]. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to. 112 pp. Bound in light brown cloth in tan dust jacket, illustrated in black and brown. Illustrated in color and black and white. Edition of 5,000 copies. Very Good, minor age-toning to edges of pages, otherwise internally clean and tight, light rubbing and wear to extremities of binding, in Good price-clipped dust jacket with 1" piece missing to upper edge of front cover, 1" tear to bottom edge of front cover, two 1/2" pieces missing to top edge of back cover, chipping and tears to head and tail of spine and extremities.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Garnet Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000207
- Title
- Mastercraftsmen of Ancient Peru
- Author
- Sawyer, Alan R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- [Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation]
- Place of Publication
- [New York]
- Date Published
- [1968]
- Keywords
- Art South America Crafts Peru Latin American Native American
- Bookseller catalogs
- Precolumbian Art and History; Crafts;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Garnet Books
Biblio member since 2008
Newark, New Jersey
About Garnet Books
Selling used books online since 2007.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Edges
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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