Masks, Mummies, and Magicians: A Voyage of Exploration in Pre-Inca Peru by Waisbard, Roger and Simone - 1965

Hardcover. Ex-Library/Has Jacket. Book is complete and intact with minor defects. Library markings, etc. At one time was part of a library collection.

Oliver & Boyd, 1965. First UK edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. A fine book in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket has tear on rear lower base. Sec 60C2

Oliver & Boyd, 1965. Hardcover. Good. 1965. First English Edition. 176 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Full title: Masks, Mummies, and Magicians: a Voyage of Exploration in Pre-Inca Peru. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Praeger. Used - Very Good. 1966. Hardcover. Second printing. Cloth, d.j., in an acetate cover. Some shelf-wear. Else clean copy. Very Good.

New York: Praeger, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good hardcover with similar dustwrapper. First US edition. Text clean. Illustrated. Clean cover. Dustwrapper spine ends lightly rubbed. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

NY: Frederick A. Praeger, 1966. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st U.S. Edition. Foxing to endpapers and exterior page edge, short tears to dust jacket, now in protective mylar. 176pp..

Oliver & Boyd, 1965., 1965. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Dust Jacket Included. First English translation. 176 pp., photos, glossary, 8vo, orange cloth, dustjacket. NF/Good in chipped and torn dj.

Edinburgh and London, Oliver & Boyd, 1965, First English Edition. . original pictorial cloth, spine title lettering, book is fine, unmarked & clean in good dust jacket (price clipped, closed tears, light wear). . 8vo [21.5 x 15 cm]; xii, 176 pp, 16 photo plates, some with more than one illustrations, text figures, 3 maps, chronologies, glossary of words in Quechua, Aymara, Spanish. . The authors explore the early civilizations of Peru, pre-dating the Incan empire by 1,500 years or more, describing Walla-Marka, everyday life of the Wallas, Munaos and Malkis, funeral rites, luggage for the after-life, the pyramid valley, Wakoto, the talking oracle of Rimac, pagan cults, Wakas, Wallalo, deities of the Pacific, etc. This edition includes the supplements. Nicely illustrated. A picture of this book is available on request by email.

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd. 171pp paper wrappers over blank card wrappers, wrappers creased with few edge chips, internally clean and sound . Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1965.

Edinburgh & London: Oliver & Boyd. Good in Good dust jacket. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library book with usual ex-lib type markings. Light edge and corner wear, scuffing of jacket which is attached to book, moderate soiling outer edge of pages. Interior pages clean and tight. B/w photos. The authors describe the way of life of this culture which preceeded that of the Incas by 15 centuries, before its people were absorbed by the Incas or reduced to slavery. Discusses the discovery of an ancient Walla pyramid in Peru, the fascinating contents of that structure, and what they have told us about that ancient civilization. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .