The Last Cannibals. Translated from the Danish by Estrid Bannister
by Bjerre, Jens
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1957. Hardcover. 192p., illustrated with quite a large number of b&w photos and doublespread endsheet maps, hardbound in papered boards with cloth backstrip decorated with a gilt line, and enclosed in the dust jacket. Author Bjerre contributes a brief foreword. Book itself is in excellent condition pace mild sunning to paper of casing, sound, clean, and unmarked within and without, while the dust jacket is edgeworn, chipped, rubbed and foxed (but all its texts are present and legible). A good to very good copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 296609
- Title
- The Last Cannibals. Translated from the Danish by Estrid Bannister
- Author
- Bjerre, Jens
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Publisher
- William Morrow and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Bookseller catalogs
- Food; Australia; indigenous peoples; Prehistory, prehistoric; Desert;
Terms of Sale
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
All books subject to prior sale Major Institutions can be billed. ALL BOOKS ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION OR BETTER UNLESS NOTED. All books returnable for any reason within thirty days of receipt.
About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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...