The Island of Bali by Covarrubias, Miguel - 1937

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Hardcover. Good +. 8vo. xxvi, 418, x pp. Bound in quarter black cloth over yellow cloth, decoration stamped in gilt and black on cover and in gilt on spine. Lacking dust jacket. "First and second printings before publication" stated on copy right page. Black and white fold out map preceding half title page, full-color frontispiece, color plates, black and white illustrations, and an album of black and white photographs by Rose Covarrubias. Includes a glossary, bibliography, and index. Good, bump to fore edge of text block, light age-toning to pages, patch of discoloration to upper margin of page 250, the color-plate facing and page 251, otherwise internally clean, hinges tight, rubbing and wear to extremities of binding, soiling and age-toning to boards, gilt has dulled.