Edition: 1st American Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company, New York
Date published: 1962
Description: Description: p. 95. Subjects: Fishing-Fisherwomen-Japanese mermaids-Amphibious communities-Hekura-Islands. Copiously illustrated in full, vibrant color. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. 1. pp. 95. read more
Edition: 1st American Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company, New York
Date published: 1962
Description: Description: p. 95. Subjects: Fishing-Fisherwomen-Japanese mermaids-Amphibious communities-Hekura-Islands. Copiously illustrated in full, vibrant color. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. 1. pp. 95. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York. 1962. Harcourt, Brace & World.
Description: 1st US edition, translated from the 1960 Italian original L'Isola delle Pescatrici by Eric Mosbacher. 95 PP with 2 maps, plus 32 pages with 25 colour photos and 72 pages with 49 b/w photos. FEP: Map of Japan. REP: Map of Japan with distribution of Ama villages in 1954. Hard cover, dj (closed tears). Near fine. 23.5 x 16.5.. The Ama women of the Seven islands and the island of Hekura. Diving for Abalone. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York. 1962. Harcourt, Brace & World.
Description: 1st US edition, translated from the 1960 Italian original L'Isola delle Pescatrici by Eric Mosbacher. 95 PP with 2 maps, plus 32 pages with 25 colour photos and 72 pages with 49 b/w photos. FEP: Map of Japan. REP: Map of Japan with distribution of Ama villages in 1954. Hard cover, dj (lightly chipped). Small rub at top of front part of dust jacket, o/wise near fine. 23.5 x 16.5.. The Ama women of the Seven islands and the island of Hekura. Diving for Abalone. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York. 1962. Harcourt, Brace & World.
Description: 1st US edition, translated from the 1960 Italian original L'Isola delle Pescatrici by Eric Mosbacher. 95 PP with 2 maps, plus 32 pages with 25 colour photos and 72 pages with 49 b/w photos. FEP: Map of Japan. REP: Map of Japan with distribution of Ama villages in 1954. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Bookplate pasted down the half title page, o/wise near fine. 23.5 x 16.5.. The Ama women of the Seven islands and the island of Hekura. Diving for Abalone. read more
Edition: First American edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World., New York.
Date published: 1962.
Description: Translation. Endpaper maps, many black and white & colour photographic plates, 95pp, green cloth covered boards, small indention upper top edge, otherwise good hardback copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World, New York
Date published: 1962
Description: Fine in very good dust jacket. Book & pages are crisp, tight, bright. There are 3 small spots on the top edge of cover where the cloth is worn through to board. The largest is 3/4" the others are 1/4". DJ shows a bit of shelf wear, and is torn by 1/2"... Text in English, Italian. 95 p. illus. 24cm. read more
Edition: 1st American Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company, New York
Date published: 1962
Description: Description: p. 95. Subjects: Fishing-Fisherwomen-Japanese mermaids-Amphibious communities-Hekura-Islands. Copiously illustrated in full, vibrant color. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. read more
Edition: 1st American Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company, New York
Date published: 1962
Description: Description: p. 95. Subjects: Fishing-Fisherwomen-Japanese mermaids-Amphibious communities-Hekura-Islands. Copiously illustrated in full, vibrant color. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York
Date published: 1960
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Woman's Studies Lots of color/black/white photographs. 95 pgs. Minor dustjacket wear, map endpages, scarce. read more
Edition: 1st American Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World
Date published: 1962
Description: Very Good. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; 95 pp. cloth bdg. with gilt-stamped spine, map as end papers. Illus. with 35 reprod. full colour phototypes, and with 36 b/w phototypes on plates of a way of life probably disappered. VG (slightly scuffed edges boards with tiny chip bottom front corner, otherwise tight and pristine)Photo scan available upon request. read more
"This book is mainly about a trip Fosco Maraini made in the 1960's to japan on his hunt for "real" Ama divers, not the tourist attraction ones. In the end he manages to find a small island where these women are still freediving to search for food. The story and pictures show the everyday life back then."
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