The Maori as He Was: A Brief Account of Maori Life as it was in Pre-European Days
by BEST, ELSDON
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
Dominion Museum 1934. Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, black Maori illus to front board, patterned eps, frontispiece, xv + 280pp, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate soiling to spine & rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev, owner's name in ink & surface loss to ffep, light foxing to prelims & terminals, annotation in pencil to pg280)
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- Title
- The Maori as He Was: A Brief Account of Maori Life as it was in Pre-European Days
- Author
- BEST, ELSDON
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dominion Museum 1934
- Keywords
- New Zealand Maori anthropology ancient history antiquity pre-European Europe culture
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- 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...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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