Crossroads Java Sea by Leeuw Hendrik (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: no DJ. Alexander King (illustrator). Octavo 350pp. Popular first person account of travel through islands of the java sea, including history and some armchair anthropology on the peoples and cultures encountered. #00287. very good: sunned spine, minor shelf wear, text clean, binding tight.

Cloth. Condition: G/No Dustjacket. Black & White Illustrations (illustrator). Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co. G/No Dustjacket. (1931). . Cloth. Decorations by Alexander King. . 8vo., xiii, 350pp., Cover stains, spine faded and chipped; inner hinges weak and cracked, ownership; lacks dj accept for description flap .

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Previous owners name is written inside on back of front board.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. G/No DJ,.350 pages 8vo., A well read copy that remains clean, tight and unmarked. The author strives to create a travel narrative different than the typical fare of the day, more based on science and ethnographic clarity. the 53 or so ink drawings by Alexander King fill almost a full page each and are interesting. Several are repeated. The black cloth boards with red tribal motifs to spine and adjacent gutters are clean but showing a few nicks and rubs. The text ends with a rather extensive 8 page bibliography. The author had good connections with staff of the Dutch East India Company which facilitated contact with the cultural groups of the region and therefore the ability to record many of their rituals. Their world has changed drastically in the last 90 years.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover with decorated boards, no dust jacket, in good condition. Foxing on the spine. Edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Page block is tanned. Number penned to front pastedown. Stamp on title page. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Story of Java and other islands in area. Jacket in poor condition falling a part. Photo on Request Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Bookplates. Decorative boards with light rubbing to extremities. ; Ribbon bookmark with the names of the publishers printed on it. Travel adventures in Borneo, Java, Celebes (modern day Sulawesi) , Sumatra and Bali; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 350 pages.

New York, Garden City Publishing Company, 1931, 1st ed., XIII,(3),350 pag., illustrations and original black cloth decorated in orange by Alexander King.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dj. Crossroads of the Java SEA. Book.

8vo. xiii, [5], 350 pp. Photo frontisp., numerous photo plates, many text illustrations & ornament by Alexander King. Quarter mustard-coloured cloth over batik illustrated boards, black lettering on spine, black embroidered bookmark bound-in (minor shelfwear, light rubbing), w/ d.j. Art Deco pictorial cover art by J.L. Orrick (minor chipping head of spine, 1 small tear at fore-edge, light darkening, and very slight sunning), still VG/VG- copy. First edition of the author's first book on travels through Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes (Sulawesi), and Bali between the Wars. His deep knowledge of speaking and reading English, French, German, Spanish, Malay & Javanese, allow De Leeuw to incorporate many first hand anthropological observations, and discussions of social history, customs, architecture, and other Indonesian achievements. Very scarce in the original dustjacket.

N.Y., Garden City Publ., (1931). Orig. full cloth. with dustjacket. jacket a bit torn. XIII,350 pp. Textillustrations. Inscribed by the author, 3 lines.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.