THE PEOPLE OF THE SEA
by Thomson, David
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Naas, Kildare, Ireland
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Turnstile Press, 1954. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, first printing (first impression) a true first printing, with no reprint statement in a fair only Dust Jacket which is not price clipped, edge wear, loss to folds and to the top and base of the jacket spine, internally clean pages, light spotting to the text block edge. Uncommon as a true first. . .
Synopsis
People of the Sea dramatizes the initial development of the California Native American culture and the imminent extinction of mammoths and mastodons as a result of climatic warming circa 8000 bc. It is the fifth book in The First North Americans series. (for Mediterranean seafaring raiders, see Sea Peoples).
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- Bookseller
- Kelleher Rare Books (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013473
- Title
- THE PEOPLE OF THE SEA
- Author
- Thomson, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Turnstile Press
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Thomson, David, first edition, THE PEOPLE OF THE SEA
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- Price Clipped
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- Jacket
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....