Primitive Travel and Transportation
by Mason, Otis Tufton
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Chehalis, Washington, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1896. First Edition. Softcover. Fair. pp. 237-593, illustrated with plates (some from photographs) and line drawings in the text. Front wrapper heavily worn and detached, back wrapper and much of outer paper on spine missing, but text block sound and text clean. Good reference copy. Signed by author with short inscription on front cover. From the annual report of the Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum. Includes detailed descriptions of methods of travel and moving and carrying things in different primitive cultures.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walkabout Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2298
- Title
- Primitive Travel and Transportation
- Author
- Mason, Otis Tufton
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Place of Publication
- Washington DC
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- native american
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
Terms of Sale
Walkabout Books
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About the Seller
Walkabout Books
Biblio member since 2011
Chehalis, Washington
About Walkabout Books
Walkabout Books is an antiquarian bookstore located in southwest Washington State. We specialize in Americana and the literature of travel and adventure, including travel narratives, travel and tourism ephemera (travel diaries, vintage brochures, guidebooks, etc), exploration, mountaineering, and other outdoor pursuits. We also carry interesting and unusual books in many other fields.
Glossary
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- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....