Polished Stone Axes in Benin
Apapa: Nigerian National Press, no date. 20p., 7.25x9.75 inches, introduction, appendixes, plates from photos and drawings, very good in original stapled wraps. More
Cat.No: 120744
Apapa: Nigerian National Press, no date. 20p., 7.25x9.75 inches, introduction, appendixes, plates from photos and drawings, very good in original stapled wraps. More
Cat.No: 120744
Boroko, Papua New Guinea: Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, 1982. xi, 147 pages, paperback, light shelfwear. Monograph 17. More
Cat.No: 238494
Boston: Beacon Press, 1950. Hardcover. xvi, 176p., cloth-covered boards, corners bumped, else very good condition. No dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 297094
New York: The Julian Press, 1956. Hardcover. viii, 440p., ownership signature of David Thorstad, very good first edition in dark blue cloth boards and gilt, slightly edgeworn dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 14507
New York: The Julian Press, 1956. Hardcover. viii, 440p., first edition, Navy blue cloth boards somewhat worn at edges in an edgeworn dust jacket with some loss to edges, rubbing along folds, soiling/dulling to spine. More
Cat.No: 32434
New York: The Julian Press, 1956. Hardcover. viii, 440p., Early printing in variant binding (dark blue but with a somewhat tighter 'weave') and pages bulking somewhat less thick than copies we have handled with the somewhat coarser 'weave.' Very good. Slight wear at corners, pages a bit browned. Clipped variant..... More
Cat.No: 285538
New York: The Julian Press, 1956. Hardcover. viii, 440p., Early printing in variant binding (dark blue but with a somewhat tighter 'weave') and pages bulking somewhat less thick than copies we have handled with the somewhat coarser 'weave.' Previous owner's name penned on free front endpaper, pages a bit browned..... More
Cat.No: 294320
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1948/66. Hardcover. viii, 131p., second printing. American Ethnological Society monograph 15. More
Cat.No: 111953
Paris: Ernest Leroux, Éditeur, 1911. Paperback. xv+254p., 7.5x11 inches, preface, introduction, annexes, text in French, illustrated with maps, tables, figures and plates, unopened pages, in original buff wraps with photo on cover, short split on spine. More
Cat.No: 109055
Paris: the journal (Pallas), 1938. Magazine. 64p., oversize journal in pulpy cardstock wraps, 12.5x9.5 inches, cover decorated with an onlaid color reproduction of a plate from p.57, every page illustrated with b&w or monochrome (various colors) fullpage or vignette imagery, usually photographic, lots of intimidating ads about illness and what..... More
Cat.No: 249300
Paris: the journal (Pallas), 1935. Magazine. 64p., oversize journal in pulpy cardstock wraps, 12.5x9.5 inches, cover decorated with an onlaid color reproduction of a Caravaggio painting, every page illustrated with b&w or monochrome (various colors) fullpage or vignette imagery, usually photographic, ads, one plate in glossy multicolor opposite p.48. Wraps..... More
Cat.No: 250596
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942. Hardcover. x, 300p. + [16]p. of b&w photos, map endpapers, boards foxed else good condition. No dust jacket. A female anthropologist describes her work among the native peoples of New Guinea. More
Cat.No: 297390
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. Hardcover. x+223p., introduction, footnotes, conclusion, appendixes, references, index, tables, illustrated with figures, maps, very good first edition in dj. More
Cat.No: 107568
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. Paperback. ix, 118p., 6x9.25 inches; sticker on front wrap, spine slightly sun-faded, else very good. Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology. More
Cat.No: 286435
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1956. Hardcover. 244p., cloth-covered boards, tables, maps, one fold-out map at rear, offsetting to endpapers else very good condition in a price-clipped dust jacket with foxing to the verso. More
Cat.No: 297968
[Johannesburg]: "Reprinted from Bantu studies, September, 1937" pp. 159-246, followed by substantial photo section and appendices; plain wraps with ownership signature; edgeworn. Anthropometric examination of the San people, with black and white photo section. More
Cat.No: 260968
Orissa, India: Smt. Shantilata Das, undated, circa 1980. 126p., sewn signatures in 8.5x5.5 inch decorated wraps; somewhat worn, with wrinkled lamination and a small snag at the heel, some offset color inside front cover but essentially sound and clean. Cover illustration shows mother and child. More
Cat.No: 170152
Kolkata: Pradip Kumar Ghosh, 2015. Paperback. 37p., wraps, 5.25x8.25 inches. Plastic peeling at bottom edge of cover, else very good. Signed and inscribed on the title page. Work in Progress- IV, Centre of Advanced Study (Phase- II), Department of Comparative Literature. More
Cat.No: 281303
Cambridge: Anthropology Resource Center, 1976. Paperback. 106p., wraps, 8.25x10.75 inches, remainder mark on bottom edge else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 288715
Brasilia: Universidade de Brasília, Departamento de Antropologia, 2005. 21p., 8.25x11.5 inches, rejection rubberstamp of Harvard's Tozzer Library on title page else very good in wraps. Text in Portuguese. Série antropologia no. 381. More
Cat.No: 144323
Brasilia: Universidade de Brasília, Departamento de Antropologia, 2006. 12p., 8.25x11.5 inches, rejection rubberstamp of Harvard's Tozzer Library on title page else very good in stapled wraps. Text in Spanish. Série antropologia no. 402. More
Cat.No: 144322
Mexico, D. F. Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia SEP, 1965. Paperback. 221p., illustrated throughout in b&w, with some color plates; glossy magazine-style wraps, 12.5 x 9 inches, expect edgewear with rubbing and creasing and slight damp-ripple along bottom edge (no adhesions). A good (good-only) copy. Text in Spanish with..... More
Cat.No: 80195
Boroko, Papua New Guinea: Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, 1980. 131 pages, paperback, front cover has traces of old label and discoloration. Monograph 13. More
Cat.No: 238490
London / Sterling VA: Earthscan, 2009. Paperback. xxiii, 583p., illustrated with a few charts and tables, a substantial softbound in 9x6 inch wraps. A very nice copy: absolutely sound, clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 250060
Mexico City: Ediciones de La Casa Chata, 1979. 177p., paperback, very good but for "Ejemplar fuera de comercio" stamps on first couple of pages, text in Spanish. A study of the town of Arandas in Jalisco. More
Cat.No: 214700