New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., (1972).. (1972).. Very good. - Octavo, pictorial wraps. The rear wrap is lightly rubbed with the corners very lightly creased. x & 134 pages. The fore-edge & the last page are very lightly foxed & the top corners of some rear leaves are very lightly creased. Illustrated in black & white. Very good.
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London: Croom Helm Ltd., (1985).. (1985).. Good. - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. The covers are bumped. The dust jacket is bumped & lightly rubbed with some light staining to the folds & with the head of the jacket spine chipped. xi & 308 pages. There is an owner's stamp & address label on the front endpaper with the same stamp on the top edge. There is light dampstaining to the rear endpaper with small stains to the top margins of a few pages. There are some pencil markings in the text. A loose page has been reinserted with tape. Good. Dust jacket present. View More...
New York: Blue Ribbon Books, Inc., (1930).. (1930).. Good. - Octavo, olive green cloth. The binding is lightly bumped & the spine is sunned. x & 372 pages. Black-and-white frontispiece & black-and-white illustrations. There is some light staining to the preliminaries, including to the margins of the frontispiece. Good.
NY: William Morrow & Company, (1949).. (1949).. Very good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in black on spine & front cover. The spine & extremities are slightly faded. vi & 477 pp. Very good. View More...
New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1945.. 1945.. Good. - Small quarto [9-5/8 inches high by 6-5/8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial golden yellow wraps. The wraps are slightly darkened around the edges & very lightly foxed & soiled. 31 pages. Black-and-white frontispiece & black-and-white full-page & textual illustrations. The verso of the frontispiece & the rear endpaper are foxed with light foxing to the edges of the pages. Good.
New York: George Braziller, 1960.. 1960.. Very good. - Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped. The dust jacket spine is rubbed & its rear panel is partially darkened & lightly soiled. x & 630 pages. Black-and-white textual illustrations. There is an owner's book label on the front pastedown. Very good.
First edition.
Subtitled on the dust wrapper: The Growth of the Science of Man on the North American Continent as Told by Those Who Laid the Foundations. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
New Haven: Human Relations Area Files Press, 1975.. 1975.. Good. - Quarto [11-1/4 inches high by 8-5/8 inches wide], tan cloth titled in black on the front cover & spine. The covers are bumped. xxxvi, [i], 255 & [2] pages. There are pencil markings in the margins of some pages. Illustrated with 4 black-and-white maps. Very good in a very good dust wrapper.
Fourth edition. A mechanically reproduced errata sheet and list of abbreviations are laid in. Dust jacket present. View More...
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., (1965).. (1965).. Very good. - Octavo, pictorial wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed with the corners lightly creased. ix & 82 pages. Illustrated in black & white. Very good.
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Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, (1970).. (1970).. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The wraps are lightly rubbed & bumped and are slightly darkened along the spine. xii & 178 pages. Black-and-white illustrations, including maps, line drawings & photographic illustrations, by the author. Very good.
Second printing.
Study of an Eskimo people whose way of life--due to location, Russian influences in the nineteenth century, and greater contact with whites today--is quite different from that of their more northerly cousins. [From the rear wrap copy]. View More...
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., (1963).. (1963).. Very good. - Octavo, pictorial wraps. The rear wrap is rubbed & the corners of the front wrap are very lightly creased. vii, [ii] & 102 pages. The inside wraps & the last page are lightly foxed. Illustrated in black & white. Very good.
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- 566 words typed on an eleven inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide sheet of Queens College letterhead. Signed Hortense Powdermaker with her name and Chairman Department of Anthropology-Sociology typed below the signature. There is light creasing to the top & bottom edges of the letter with a paperclip mark to the top edge. The recipient has heavily marked the letter with a phone number and date & with brackets around the body of the letter and Powdermaker's signature. Folded 3 times for mailing. Good. Powdermaker writes that she will be be happy to speak at Rugg's All-College Luncheon Forum. Would y... View More...
Ottawa [Canada]: F. A. Acland, 1925.. 1925.. Good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt with a vignette map in gilt & green on the front cover. The binding is bumped, rubbed & lightly soiled and there are tiny white stains to the rear cover. The spine is a bit faded with its head & tail chipped. 506 pages. Illustrated with a black-and- white frontispiece & numerous tables & music staves. Good.
This study includes music and texts in the native language of the Copper Eskimos with English translations. View More...
Ottawa [Canada]: F. A. Acland, 1925.. 1925.. Good. - Large octavo, olive green cloth titled in gilt on the spine & front cover with a vignette map in gilt & green on the cover. The gilt on the spine is almost completely faded. The binding is rubbed & bumped with the head & tail of the spine lightly chipped. There is some white spotting to the rear cover. 506 pages. Profusely illustrated with diagrams & music staves. There is some light foxing to the fore-edge. Good. Songs of the Copper Eskimos recorded on a phonograph between 1914 and 1916, either at Bernard harbour in Dolphin and Union Strait... View More...
Ottawa: National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada, June 1973.. June 1973.. Fine. - Small quarto [11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in printed red wraps. The spine is somewhat faded. [v] & 54 pages. Illustrated with a black-and-white map. Near fine.
A study of the Hare Athabaskan Indians of Colville Lake, a small isolated village in the Mackenzie District of the Northwest Territories. The main text is in English. The introductory material is printed in English and French. View More...
New Haven: Yale University Press / London: Oxford University Press, 1915.. 1915.. Very good. - Octavo, gray cloth; printed label on spine. The covers are lightly bumped & rubbed; the label is somewhat darkened & lightly rubbed with 1 edge detached. xiv, [1] leaf & 245 pp. Very good.
First edition, limited to 1,000 copies. First Edition. View More...
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, (1924).. (1924).. Good. - Small octavo [6-3/8 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide], blue cloth with paper labels on the front cover & spine. The binding is bumped with staining to the covers & with the rear cover heavily rubbed. The spine is darkened with the head chipped. The label on the spine is darkened & rubbed and the front-cover label is lightly soiled & stained. vi, [1] leaf & 66 pages. The inner edges of the pages are darkened. Good. The author [a Fellow and Tutor of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University] proposes a pessimistic future for man and sug... View More...
Boulder, CO and London, U.K.: Westview Press, (1987).. (1987).. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial blue & black wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed with a glue stain left by a sticker on the front wrap & some light spotting to the rear wrap. xvii & 229 pages. There are a very few pencil markings. Very good.
First edition.
Anthropologist Susan Scott-Stevens writes about the problems of cross-cultural communication between foreign technologists working on development projects and their counterparts in developing nations. First Edition. View More...
- Octavo, decorative paper covered boards. There is very light rubbing to the rear board & to corners of the covers. 660 & [4] pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Near fine.
First edition.
A book about shamanism in Siberia, including rites, ceremonies and folklore. Bibliographical references are listed on pages 634-643.
The text is in Cyrillic. First Edition. View More...
NY: Philosophical Library, Inc., (1952).. (1952).. Very good. - Quarto, 12 inches high by 9 inches wide. Bound in red cloth titled in gilt on spine. The covers are bumped with a few very light stains. 181 & [1] pages, with illustrations in black and white. Very good. First edition.In addition to studying the institution of blood brotherhood in various regions of Africa, Tegnaeus looks at its occurrence in other nations and races, among them the Vikings, Irish, English, Eastern Europeans, Arabs, Pacific Islanders, North American Indians and Gypsies. The book includes an 8-1/2 page bibliography.... View More...
Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala Sons & Co. Private Ltd., (1956).. (1956).. Good. - Quarto [11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped with some light spotting to the rear cover. The dust jacket is chipped. The spine of the dust jacket is darkened with pieces out of the head & tail and the rear panel is unevenly darkened. xiii & 161 pages. Color frontispiece & 260 black-and-white illustrations. There is offsetting to the endpapers from the dust wrapper with a bookseller's stamp on the rear endpaper. The edges of the illustration pages are da... View More...
