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Bali
by Ronald McKie
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
£10.35£7.25
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Sydney, AUS: Angus and Robertson, 1969 Angus and Robertson, Sydney, AUS. 1969. Hardcover. Stated First Published 1969. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($6.95); light wear to head, tail, and tips; light rubbing to panels. Black boards and spine with bright white lettering on the spine and front board; white bird on front board. Fold out map present. 151 pp 8vo. Finally shed of Netherlands rule, the independent country of Indonesia is springing to life and enjoying tourism again. The author and the photographer convey in rich detail the fascinations of this medieval land of rice terraces and walled villages, bringing to life its religious ceremonies, its cockfights, its dances, and its peasant arts and skills. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010071
- Title
- Bali
- Author
- Ronald McKie
- Illustrator
- Beryl Bernay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Angus and Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney, AUS
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Java, Bali, Java Sea, native dancers, Indonesia, Dutch, Netherlands, tribal arts,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- 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....
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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