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It is cause for celebration that the best popular work on the subject in English is back in print. Harry Crosby, author of several works on the peninsula, including most recently, a compendious history of the missionary period, first published his narrative of the cave paintings in 1975. In less thorough fashion, the paintings had already been written about by Jesuit padres, a French mining engineer, mystery writer Erle Stanley Gardner, and a scattering of archaeologists, and the murals themselves had been familiar all along to the ranchers who live among them. With those ranchers for companions and guides, Crosby made it his goal to find and catalog them all. His account is anything but pedantic. Slightly revised for reasons of style more than content, it conveys the excitement of the search while pausing for portraits of ranchers, observations on pack --The Bloomsbury Review, 5-6/98
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Crosby, Joanne H. (illustrator). Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.25. Seller Inventory # G0913938270I3N00
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Crosby, Joanne H. (illustrator). Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.25. Seller Inventory # G0913938270I5N01
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Crosby, Joanne H. (illustrator). Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.25. Seller Inventory # G0913938270I3N01
Book Description Condition: Good. Crosby, Joanne H. (illustrator). Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting. Seller Inventory # 0913938270-2-4
Book Description Condition: Fair. Crosby, Joanne H. (illustrator). Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within. Seller Inventory # bk0913938270xvz189zvxacp
Book Description Crosby, Joanne H. (illustrator). Revised edition (as stated upon title page and dj front panel) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. x, 189 pages. Hardcover: H 28.5cm x L 22cm. Dust jacket rubbed; small chip at front flap fold head and panel corner; spine panel sunned with scuffing at ends; a few nicks/scuffs at other edges and along rear flap fold. Reddish-brown cloth with copper stamping to spine and front board. Author's three-line ink inscription "To Gloria + Don --- | May This Take Your Fancy | Harry Crosby" on half-title page. Laid-in between pages 96-97 s brochure from La Jolla, California gallery and design firm Ross Thiele & Son promoting March 1984 exhibit "Joanne Crosby Watercolors" (artist Joanne Haskell Crosby is the wife of author Harry Crosby). Interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. Binding is firm. A near fine copy in a very good- dust jacket. Updated from the original 1975 edition. With color and b/w illustrations, brief dedication essay by Helen K. Copley, "A Foreword" by Ken Hedges, "A Chance Introduction," "A Final Note," Glossary, Bibliography, Acknowledgements, and Index. Features six chapters titled as: "The First to Find Them," "The Sierra de San Francisco," "The Sierra de Guadalupe," "The Sierra de San Juan," "The Sierra de San Borja," and "Who Were the Painters?" Please note that this book has an approximate shipping weight of 3 pounds (1.36 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. ISBN 0913938270. Seller Inventory # CVA-00704
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Crosby, Joanne H. (illustrator). Revised Edition. INSCRIBED by Harry Crosby. CLEAN Fine 1984 revised hardcover with very good dust jacket. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 046688