London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1929. Undetermined. very good. 1st U.K. edition. xxiv, 505pp. Large octavo. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Some light shelfwear and rubbing to boards. Head and tail of spine bumped and lightly rubbed. Binding very lightly shaken. Some foxing to edges of text block and light foxing throughout. very good An illustrated guide to Maori culture and economics, with 30 photographic illustrations (on 16 plates) and 3 maps. Focuses on cultural practices before European contact. 1929

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Bookseller: Aquila Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 136324
Title: Primitive Economics of the New Zealand Maori
Author: Firth, Raymond
Format/Binding: Undetermined
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd.
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1929
Keywords: Economics|Ethno-History|Ethnography|Maori|Native Peoples|New Zealand
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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....
Shaken: A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
Shelfwear: Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Tail: The heel of the spine.
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....