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1927 In Borneo Jungles Among the Dyak Headhunters
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Description
First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Uncommon, With Dustwrapper
The first edition of this uncommon work.
In the original very scarce price-clipped dust wrapper.
An evocative travel work on Borneo and its people, a detailed-oriented work written by Doctor William O. Krohn, who was commissioned on this trip by the Field Museum of Natural History.
Whilst mainly focusing on Borneo, this work also details Krohn's journey to Borneo through Hawaii, Japan, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Milan.
Including chapters on Dyak marriage, music, arts and crafts, feasts, headhunting, and more.
Illustrated with a frontispiece, and thirty-one plates.
Collated, complete.
Condition
In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Some light marks to the boards and extremities. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Prior owner's pencil inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Dust wrapper with some edge wear, heavier to the head of the spine and rear wrap. Some light marks to the wraps. Small chip to the tail of the front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.
Very Good Indeed
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