Tangu Traditions. A Study of the Way of Life, Mythology, and Developing Experience of a New Guinea People
by Burridge, Kenelm
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/no jacket
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Spring Green, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
London: Oxford University Press, 1969. first edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. xxiii, 513p, photographs, frontispiece, 22cm tall, octavo. Gray cloth with gilt title on spine. Covers show minor wear at corners.
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- Bookseller
- Sandhill Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00004203
- Title
- Tangu Traditions. A Study of the Way of Life, Mythology, and Developing Experience of a New Guinea People
- Author
- Burridge, Kenelm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- no jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- tangu; new guinea
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social Science;
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