GAUGUIN IN THE SOUTH SEAS
by Danielsson, Bengt
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- Seller
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Deerfield, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., (1965). hardcover. Very good/very good. Small quarto, (approx. 6 1/4" wide by 9 3/8" tall) sienna brown covers, 310 pages. Translated by Reginald Spink. Includes 16 color plates plus many black and white photographs; maps. With notes, sources, and index. Light crease on bottom of first few leaves of book; one cover corner lightly bumped. Dust jacket has some wear at edges. 092717D. "The author is a professional anthropologist and historian who lived for fifteen years in Tahiti... His research his yielded a wealth of new material, official reports and court records from government rchives in Papeete, articles and notices in Tahitian newspapers and missionary journals, travel accounts, private diaries and family papers, and hitherto unknown letters to and from Gauguin."
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- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000018377
- Title
- GAUGUIN IN THE SOUTH SEAS
- Author
- Danielsson, Bengt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Allen and Unwin Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1965)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Alkahest Books
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Deerfield, Illinois
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Alkahest Books was established in1984. We started as an open shop on Central St. in Evanston, IL, and sold books there until 2002 and later were part of Chicago Rare Book Center which closed in 2017. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and IOBA and sell both online and at book fairs. International customers should ask for a shipping quote before ordering as the rates given are only for smaller books.
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