The Eagle, the Jaguar, and the Serpent.
by Miguel Covarrubias
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. Hard Cover/No Jacket. Very Good. pp.314 plus index. color and b/w photos, illustrations. Indian art of the Americas: North America: Alaska, Canada and the United States. beige cloth covers with black binding with gold gilt design and title on spine hinge and spine clean tight copy book plate name paste down on inside front cover, slight wear to top and bottom spine edges Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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- Seller
- Booked Experiences (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 020052
- Title
- The Eagle, the Jaguar, and the Serpent.
- Author
- Miguel Covarrubias
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover/No Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Date Published
- 1954
- Bookseller catalogs
- NATIVE AMERICANS; ANTHROPOLOGY; ART;
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....