204pp. Clean and tight, this first edition copy is in brown cloth over boards with black titles. The green dust jacket is in good, not perfect, condition - the spine is faded and there is a small tear at the top right corner of the back cover, which has been reinforced by a 2cm piece of tape.
Profusely illustrated throughout with 440 b/w and colour photographs and drawings. Text in English and German. Titles in the book mostly in German. Pictorial endpapers. Scarce.
Back cover: The 440 illustrations in this book meet the requirements that ethnologists demand of a standard work. Collectors of African weapons will soon find it to be an indispensable, definitive work, and laymen will surely be impressed by the variety and aesthetics of the graceful, almost noble, weapon designs. Nevertheless, this is not a picture book. In its text the reader will find many interesting facts concerning the manufacture, use and users of African weapons.
- Jacket Condition: Good
- Binding Condition: Very good
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: 4to (300 x 240 mm)
