Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1902-1903
by HOLMES, W.H. (chief)
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- Hardcover
- first
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1907. Hardcover. 4to. Olive green blind-ruled cloth with gilt spine lettering and front board pictorial stamping. xl, 846pp. Chromolithograph frontispiece, numerous full-page plates and couple chromolithographs, line drawings. Very good. Minor binding edgewear, else internally tight and bright and near fine; light ownership signature on front flyleaf. A tight and nice first edition, with Holmes' "Administrative Report" followed by an "Accompanying Papers" -- Stewart Culin's lengthy and detailed "Games of the North American Indians."
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44063
- Title
- Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1902-1903
- Author
- HOLMES, W.H. (chief)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Place of Publication
- Washington, DC
- Date Published
- 1907
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Native American;
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