CURIOSITIES OF SAVAGE LIFE by Greenwood, James - 1865

S.O. Beeton, 1863-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover. Original 1863 printing. IN VERY POOR CONDITION.....front cover and spine MISSING. Rear cover is present but loose. The pages, however, are bound and intact....albeit with light vertical crease on some and some page-turn soiling. Some with corner creases. Full of wonderful engravings....some in full-page color.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Curiosities of Savage Life ... (Second series.) With woodcuts ... by H. S. Melville; ... and coloured illustrations ... by F. W. Keyl, etc..

Nabu Press, 2011-08-30. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

LONDON. 1865. 3RD EDITION.

LONDON. 1865. 3RD EDITION.

Beeton, 1863-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback rebound by library. In good condition for its age. Clean text, sound binding.

S. O. Beeton, 1863. Hardcover. Acceptable. Two volume set: volume one, 1863, and volume two / second series, 1864. Leather spines and marbled paper boards with gilt spine titles and decoration; soiled, dulled, with heavy rubbing and edgewear including frayed edges. Volume one is missing a fly leaf that followed the text, and volume two is missing the last leaf of text (pages 417-418); a prior owner has written in additional text in pencil. Interior hinges repaired; the free endpapers of the marbled endsheets for volume two have been replaced with photocopies of original endsheets. Pages toned, soiled, free of notes or underlining except for the last extant page of volume two as indicated.

London, England: S.O. Beeton. (Printed by Stephen Austin), 1863. Hardcover. Good Plus. 418 pp., plus 8 pp.advertisements at rear. Red stamped and engraved boards with large, bright gilt graphic to front board depicting a loinclothed native,wielding a spear, and the entire spine taken up with engravings, and designs, heavy on the gilt. Rubbing to extremities with 1/4 inch loss of cloth across top of spine. All edges gilt. Hinges both started, but book very solidly bound. Chocolate brown endpapers, with bookseller's ticket (W. Bones & Son, Fleet St.) to bottom of rear pastedown. With numerous woodcuts and designs by Harden S. Melville; Engraved by H. Newsom Woods, and six, full-page colour illustrations from water-colour drawings by F.W. Keyl and R. Huttula. This is the colonial, ethnocentric, supercilious culture at its worst, and Greenwood concentrates on the extremes of sensationalism (blood rituals, coming-of-age bloody floggings, horrible live-slaughtering of animals, etc.), which would disgust… Read More