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Ritual and Belief in Morocco
by Westermarck, Edward
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine /Very Good
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1926. 8vo.Illustrated. First edition. Two volumes. xxxii, 608 pp.; xviii, 629, (1), 6 pub. ads. Olive green cloth boards with gilt decoration on the front and gilt text on the spine. Volume II comes with original dust jacket, with repeated decoration and text printed on. Top edge gilt. Both volumes contain embedded and plate illustrations, alongside a fold-out map of Morocco in volume II. Boards are in very good condition with slight wear to the corners but minimal marking. Binding is firm and hinges strong. Dust jacket missing for volume I, and slightly torn and marked in volume II. Stitching visible at the central openings of both volumes but all pages secure and intact. Very minimal foxing to page edges. Internally clean and bright. Westermarck spent several years in Morocco, visiting towns and tribes throughout the country, and learning about their language and culture . Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 1926.
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- Bookseller
- Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67126
- Title
- Ritual and Belief in Morocco
- Author
- Westermarck, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1926
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1926
- Size
- 8vo.Illustrated
- Keywords
- Sociology,Anthropology,Finnish,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Philosophy and Religion; Folklore and the Occult;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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London, Greater London
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- 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...
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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