pages 407 plus a catalogue of other Dover books in rear of book. b/w illustrations, and line drawings. Covers covered in contact, endpaper spine folds reinforced with tape. Line of writing under tape in front of book, Covers are creased and worn. Back end paper is marked. Unabridged republication of original edition published in 1906 under the title "String Figures". This book maybe regarded as an introduction to the study of string figures, games which are widespread among primitive peoples, and play by weaving on the hands a single loop of string in order to produce intricate patterns supposed to represent certain familiar objects. Stamp on title page. Pages are clean throughout apart from the back end paper.

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Title: String Figures and How to Make Them A Study of Cat's Cradle in Many Lands
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc, New York
Publication Date: 1962
Binding: Card Cover
Edition: New Dover Edition
Condition: Good
Book Type: Illustrated Cover

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We specialise out of print miltary, history, Australiana, and all types of craft books and thousands of patterns for knitting, crochet and related crafts. We also have other "unique" one of a kind books which surface from time to time. Our shop is off the Hume Highway at Holrook between Sydney and Melbourne in NSW "the submarine town", The shop is at the old ambulance station, cnr Hume and Albury Streets, Holbrook.

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The Last Post Bookshop
106 Albury Street, Holbrook, NSW, 2644, Australia

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