Bedouin Jewellery in Saudi Arabia
by ROSS, Heather Colyer
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Dust Jacket Included
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Stacey International, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Stacey International, 1978. Oblong quarto, 128 pages with numerous illustrations (from drawings and photographs), most in colour. Cloth; covers very slightly sunned; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little rubbed and sunned about the spine. 'The wider world has known about the charm and skill of Bedouin jewellery for only a handful of years. ... Yet the jewellery of the Bedouin, in their desert heartland of Saudi Arabia, has been an artistic fact for thousands of years' (from the blurb).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 135181
- Title
- Bedouin Jewellery in Saudi Arabia
- Author
- ROSS, Heather Colyer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Stacey International
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1978
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
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Adelaide, South Australia
About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
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- Sunned
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- Dustwrapper
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- Quarto
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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