DICTIONARY AND GRAMMAR OF THE LANGUAGE OF SA'A AND ULAWA, SOLOMON ISLANDS, WITH APPENDICES
by IVENS, WALTER
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Corvallis, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Carnegie Institute, 1918. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Washington, D.C. 1918. Carnegie Institute. 249 pages. Engraved frontis, 11 plates. Includes chapters on Melanesia, Queensland labor trade and Santa Cruz Island. Original wrappers bound into red buckram library binding. Large octavo. Partial bookplate, text clean, library stamp to top edge, area where label must have been removed on spine.
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- Bookseller
- Studio Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3689
- Title
- DICTIONARY AND GRAMMAR OF THE LANGUAGE OF SA'A AND ULAWA, SOLOMON ISLANDS, WITH APPENDICES
- Author
- IVENS, WALTER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Carnegie Institute
- Date Published
- 1918
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- Library Binding
- A type of reinforced binding designed for libraries, schools, or other applications where a book might experience high...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
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