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Maya Cities (Ancient Cities and Temples)
by Paul Rivet; Miriam and Lionel Kochan, Translators
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
£11.92£8.34
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About This Item
London, UK / New York : Elek Books Ltd. / G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1960 Elek Books Ltd. / G.P. Putnam's Sons, London, UK / New York. 1960. Hardcover. First UK and US printings of the translated 1954 French edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; slight shelfwear and bumping to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped but price is inked over; chipping to head and tail; edge bumping to DJ; missing small pieces at head, tail, and top of front panel.Tipped-in folding color frontispiece. 234 pp 4to. 10 tipped-in folding color plates and 100+ B&W photographs. This book brings vividly to life the civilization of the ancient Mayan people, their language, environment, and way of life. The Mayan Empire was founded in the 4th Century AD and lasted over 1000 years in Guatemala and into Mexico. With a passion for building, they left behind cities, frescoes, pyramids, temples, carved stelae, and elaborate calendrical system and records written in pictographs. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016123
- Title
- Maya Cities (Ancient Cities and Temples)
- Author
- Paul Rivet; Miriam and Lionel Kochan, Translators
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Elek Books Ltd. / G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- London, UK / New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mayan culture, Mayan Indians, Maya Cities, Mayan civilization, Guatemala, Mexico, Central America, Anthropology, archaeology, ancient cultures, ancient civilizations.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Latin America;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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