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Published by The Museum of Modern Art New York, 1946
Seller: J. R. Young, Birmingham, United Kingdom
10¼"x7¾" (26x19.5cm). 200pp with 4 colour plates, numerous monochrome photo illustrations, maps, and bibliography; endpaper maps. Original black cloth, backstrip title etc and front cover illustration in brown. Head and foot of backstrip and upper outer corner of front cover a little inwards-curled. VERY GOOD copy in GOOD price-clipped dust jacket with backstrip panel a little rubbed & nicked at head, and with front panel lightly spotted and a little nicked & creased along upper edge.
Published by The Museum of Modern Art / Arno Press. New York. ., 1972
ISBN 10: 0405015674ISBN 13: 9780405015670
Seller: Jean-Louis Boglio Maritime Books, CYGNET, TAS, Australia
Book
Reprint of the 1946 original. 200, (4) PP with 16 maps, 184 b/w photos and 4 b/w plates by Miguel Covarrubias. Fp: Human figure surmounted by a bird, from the Sepik River, New Guinea. Hard covers, title in red lettering on front board and spine. Fine. 26 x 19.5. Nota: the 4 "Colour Reproductions" of the original edition by Miguel Covarrubias, were printed in b/w in this "Library Grade" edition.
Published by The Museum of Modern Art. New York. ., 1946
Seller: Jean-Louis Boglio Maritime Books, CYGNET, TAS, Australia
First Edition
1st Ed. 200 PP with 16 maps, 184 b/w photos and 4 colour plates by Miguel Covarrubias. Fp: Human figure surmounted by a bird, from the Sepik River, New Guinea. Eps: Map of the South Seas. Card covers with light wear, pictorial front. Old damp marks at top of front cover. Internally near fine. 25.5 x 19.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Very Good Copy, Dust jacket is missing, small tear to head of spine, pages clean, Sm 4to, 199pgs.
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, 1946
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual marking. Mostly clean copy, but has wear to cover and binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Miguel Covarrubias (illustrator). First edition. A very smart first edition of this study of the art of the South Pacific Islands, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. Illustrated with two hundred images. The first comprehensive survey in English of the arts of the South Pacific Islands, with historical commentary on the aboriginal arts of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Australia. Written by Ralph Linton, an American anthropologist, and Paul S. Wingert, an American art historian and professor of art history at Columbia University. In collaboration with Rene d'Harnoncourt, an Austrian-born American art curator. With some illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias, a Mexican painter, illustrator, ethnologist, and art historian. In the original black cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is smart with light shelf wear and minor chipping. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine. book.