Handbook of North American Indians: Volume 8: California

Description

Editor: Heizer, Robert F.

Publisher Smithsonian Institution

Pub Date: 1978

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Poor to Fair.  Ex-library.  Binding tight.  No folds.  Lower front cover corner at spine foot has remnants of a long-ago sticker.  Spine head has an approx.1/2″ area of wear at the upper rear gutter.  Spine head worn.  Spine foot has remnants of tape and a sticker covering library location markings.  A couple of areas of wear to front and rear boards (small white streaks, probably from rubbing against other volumes).  Library card pocket on mid-front end paper.  Some marked-oput areas on upper corners of front end paper and front pastedown.  Date stamp on upper corner front pastedown at spine head.  There’s a small area approx. 1/4″ x 2″ on side text block that looks like water (coffee?) spot.  All corners bumped, worn.

Notes: Can you imagine what being alive in California was like before the arrival of Europeans?  The cultures and practices of about 60 California tribes.