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Sculpture of the Eskimo
by Swinton, George (1917-2002)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0771083718
- ISBN 13
- 9780771083716
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
255 pages with plates (some in color), maps, charts, tables, bibliography and indices. Folio (12 3/4" x 10 1/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in pictorial jacket. First edition. Pamplet of Marie Kuunuaq Sculpture laid in. The photographs in this book constitute the most thorough visual record of Eskimo sculpture ever to be compiled, presenting most of the important pieces and spanning all the phases from prehistory to the present. A magnificent pictorial chronicle and a sensitive appreciation of this highly individualistic art form this work does not set out to judge or analyze but to reveal the aesthetic experience and profound beauty of these finely crafted carvings and sculptures approaching them as works of art rather than as archaeological or anthropological phenomena. Condition: Jacket price clipped else a very good to fine copy in a near fine jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS000459
- Title
- Sculpture of the Eskimo
- Author
- Swinton, George (1917-2002)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0771083718
- ISBN 13
- 9780771083716
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- Art
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
- Size
- Folio
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About the Seller
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Spine
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