Maasai
by BECKWITH, Carol (photography); SAITOTI, Tepilot Ole (text)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0810913038
- ISBN 13
- 9780810913035
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0810913038 . A photographic tribute to Africa's Maasai people. With 240 plates in full color, exhibiting the photos of Carol Beckwith. Also with the text of Tepilit Ole Saitoti and with drawings. --- An oversize hardcover, measuring 26 cm. wide x 34 cm. tall. In full brown cloth-covered boards with spine titling in gilt, cover titling in blind. Volume wrapped in dust jacket with Beckwith photos to covers. --- With a spot of discoloration to cover cloth and inked gift inscription to front free endpaper, else a clean, tightly-bound copy. Unpriced jacket with a little rippling and soiling to cover and to verso, otherwise in good shape.; Quarto - 11 to 13 in. tall; 276 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87031
- Title
- Maasai
- Author
- BECKWITH, Carol (photography); SAITOTI, Tepilot Ole (text)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0810913038
- ISBN 13
- 9780810913035
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- 0810913038
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Littleton, Colorado
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