Colombia. by Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo - 1965.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1965. First Edition, First Printing Cloth Near Fine in FINE DJ 8vo (6 x 8-1/4), 231 pp including Index, Bibliography, Notes on Text and Notes on Photos. Hardbound book is Unmarked and NEAR FINE -- pages fall open naturally to signature breaks but all pages are clean and tight. Glossy pictorial DJ is price-clipped but otherwise FINE. This was -- and still is -- the landmark book by Reichel-Dolmatoff, arguably the foremost pioneer of the cultural-historical anthropology of Colombia and the western Amazon. History, social organization, horticulture, artifacts and art, are all examined with insightful text plus 65 photographs, 66 line drawings, 2 maps and 2 tables. One of the excellent "Ancient Peoples and Places" series Edited by Glynn Daniel for Thames & Hudson.