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Boas Franz
Kwakiutl Culture as Reflected in Mythology Memoirs of the American Folklore Society Vol. XXVIII 1935
New York: G. E. Stechert & Co. for American Folklore Society 1935. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Brown cloth lettered in gilt. Essentially as issued. Firm binding clean interior. xii192 pp. Very scarce 1st edition. G. E. Stechert & Co. for American Folklore Society Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 041548
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McNair Major J. F. A. and Thomas Lambert Barlow
Oral Tradition from the Indus. Comprised in Tales. To Which Are Added Explanatory Notes INSCRIBED
Brighton England: Printed at the Cranbourne Printing Works by R. Gosden 1908. Book. Illus. by Miss L. Fenn. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. Revised Edition. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. HARDCOVER. 1st edition thus revised and corrected: 1908. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Cover cloth is mildly soiled in a few areas with slight spotting to rear cover as if splashed with moisture at some point spine panel somewhat sunned. Mildly rubbed corners and spine extremities. Modest foxing to endpapers and several early leaves light foxing through much of interior. Firm hinges clean and unmarked interior. Vintage Samuel Weiser bookseller's tag mounted on lower front fixed endpaper. xvi157 pp. frontis. map b&w plates. Inscribed on upper main title by co-author McNair who died in 1910 to Sir Hugh Wyndham full signature dated Oct. 1908; Wyndham was either the British diplomat who served as Mnister to Serbia Brazil and Romania or the British peer who was 4th Baron Leconfield likely the former. Exceptionally scarce. Printed at the Cranbourne Printing Works by R. Gosden Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 041549
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Baker Ronald L.
Folklore in the Writings of Rowland E. Robinson
Bowling Green OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Light green cloth lettered in black. Mlidly rubbed corners and spine extremities with mild soiling to cover cloth. Firm binding clean interior. xi240 pp. Bowling Green University Popular Press Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 041556 ???????? : 0879720387 9780879720384
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Komlos John editor.
The Biological Standard of Living on Three Continents: Further Explorations in Anthropometric History.
Boulder: Westview Press 1995. Hardback octavo dustjacket very good condition in very good dustjacket tables figures few tiny marks edges minor edgewear jacket. 225 pp. This book looks at historical anthropometrics which is the study of changes over time in mean human body size. The essays in this book help to shed some light on some of the questions which remain to be answered about nutritional status in the past. The human effects of the economic changes of the last 200 years has extended analysis to regions where such information has been lacking including Russia Canada Indonesia Italy and Spain. Westview Press hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 27341 ???????? : 0813320550 9780813320557
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Stocking George W. Jr. editor
Malinowski Rivers Benedict and Others: Essays on Culture and Personality
Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Pres. Fine copy. 1986. 2nd prt. softcover. 8vo 257 pp. History of Anthropology Volume 4. . University of Wisconsin Pres paperback
书商的参考编号 : BOOKS074860I ???????? : 0299107345 9780299107345
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Stocking George W. Jr. editor
Functionalism Historicized: Essays on British Social Anthopology
Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Pres. Fine copy. 1984. 2nd prt. softcover. 8vo 244 pp. History of Anthropology Volume 2. . University of Wisconsin Pres paperback
书商的参考编号 : BOOKS074859I ???????? : 0299099040 9780299099046
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Gregory Perrino
GUIDE TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF CERTAIN AMERICAN INDIAN PROJECTILE POINTS Special Bulletin No. 4
<p>This is an excectionally nice copy of ther 1977 release.</p><p>Photos on request.</p> Oklahoma Anthropological Society paperback
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Robert E. Bell
GUIDE TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF CERTAIN AMERICAN INDIAN PROJECTILE POINTS special bulletin No.2
<p>This is a very good copy of this important work.</p><p>Photos on request.</p> Oklahoma Anthropological Society paperback
书商的参考编号 : biblio1509
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Robert E. Bell
GUIDE TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF CERTAIN AMERICAN INDIAN PROJECTILE POINTS special bulletin No.1
<p>This is a very nice copy of the 1968 issue.</p><p>Photos on request.</p> Oklahoma Anthropological Society paperback
书商的参考编号 : biblio1507
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McGee W. J.
Bureau of American Ethnology: The Seri Indians
Washington DC: Bureau of American Ethnology 1898. Retired library minimally marked rear withdrawn pocket. Age toned moisture bubbled endpapers letter from Bureau of American Ethnology glued to ffep otherwise textblock is clean and tight. Original Olive-green cloth binding library marking on spine lightly shelf scuffed covers bumping to head and foot of spine lightly bumped corners. 344pp. Olive Green Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Lithographs/Photographs/Maps. 4to - Over 9 �" -12" Tall. Ex-Library Copy/Hardcover. Bureau of American Ethnology Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : SB8995
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ANYIDOHO Kofi; AVORGBEDOR Daniel; DOMOWITZ Susan; GIRAY Saul Eren editors
Cross Rhythms: Papers in African Folklore
Bloomington IN: African Folklore Publications; Trickster Press 1983. from personal library of Dr. Daniel P. Kunene Professor Emeritus of Department of African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin his signature is in pen cover shows minimal wear text is clean binding is firm . Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. African Folklore Publications; Trickster Press paperback
书商的参考编号 : AfricaMyth3001
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Radcliffe Brown A. R.
Structure and Function in Primitive Society: Essays and Addresses.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul RKP 1976. Reprint ed. Paperback trade very good condition figures spine lightly creased faint foxing top edge minor edgewear minimal pencil annotation owner's written name. 219 pp. Contains a selection of essays and addresses published over many years by the noted anthropologist called the father of modern social anthropology. Some of the essays mention Australian Aborigines and the Pacific. Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) paperback
书商的参考编号 : 2566 ???????? : 0710063555 9780710063557
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Gomme George Laurence
Ethnology in Folklore Modern Science Series IV
New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1892. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Dark blue cloth lettered in gilt Modern Science Series cartouche on upper front cover corner. Chipped w/ approx. 1/4" loss at spine extremities mild surface rubbing. ix20310 pp. Firm binding clean interior. D. Appleton and Co. Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 041502
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Gomme George Laurence editor
The Handbook of Folklore Publications of the Folklore Society XX 1887
London: David Nutt for the Folklore Society 1890. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5�" - 6�" tall. Brown cloth lettered in gilt bordered in black. Modest shelf wear mildly rubbed spine extremities and corners. Firm binding clean interior. vii193 pp. folding "Tabulation of Folk-Tales" plate at p. 177 numerous rear blanks. David Nutt for the Folklore Society Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 041503
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Halliday W. R.
Folklore Studies: Ancient and Modern
London: Methuen and Co. Ltd. 1924. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Red cloth lettered in gilt. Dampstaining along fore-edge of each cover extends 1/2" to 1" onto cover otherwise only light shelf wear with slight sunning to spine panel. Firm binding clean interior. xvii172 pp. Methuen and Co. Ltd. Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 041459
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Whitney Annie Weston and Caroline Canfield Bullock
Folk-Lore from Maryland
New York: American Folk-Lore Society 1925. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. Burgundy cloth ruled and lettered in gilt. Minor shelf wear top corners slightly bumped. 240 pp. Some leaves still uncut unopened along fore-edges. American Folk-Lore Society Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 041454
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Todd Loreto; Hancock Ian F.
International English Usage
New York: New York University Press 1990. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Stiff paper wraps. Very slight shelf wear vritually as issued. Square uncreased binding. viii520 pp. New York University Press Paperback
书商的参考编号 : 019255 ???????? : 0814781764 9780814781760
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V. S. Naipaul
A Turn in the South
<p>Franklin Center PA: Franklin Library. Fine. 1989. First Edition; First Printing; Signed by Author. Full-Leather. A special Limited First Edition/First Printing preceding the trade edition in unread Fine condition. SIGNED by author and 2001 Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul; Naipaul's first book dealing with the United States is a revealing summary of his encounters with Southerners of all types some eager to talk others inclined to be guarded. An account of insights into a complex region and its culture of "order and faith and music and melancholy."</p><p>Raised bands printed on acid free archival paper to prevent page yellowing over time. The leather bindings are stamped with gold letterings and/or designs and the page edges are gilt in gold which helps to protect the paper from humidity damage. This full leather bound books included silk pictorial end pages and sewn-in silk or satin ribbons as bookmarks </p> Franklin Library Edition hardcover
书商的参考编号 : biblio 432
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Mama Raouf
Why goats smell bad and other stories from Benin / translated and retold by Raouf Mama ; illustrated by Imna Arroyo
North Haven Connecticut U.S.A.: Linnet Books 1998. NEW subjects Fon African people -- Folklore; Tales -- Benin. A collection of nineteen folk stories from the Fon people of Benin about orphans and twins with magical associations spirits animals royalty and farmers. . Hard Cover. Linnet Books hardcover
书商的参考编号 : AfricaLit3043 ???????? : 0208024697 9780208024695
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Tibor Barath
A MAGYAR NEPEK OSTORTENETE : Harmadik Kotet III
Szerzo Kiadasa / Montreal 1974. 189pp. Green cloth hardback figures b&w photos and illustrations maps symbols Volume III only text in Hungarian The Ancient History of the Hungarian People . Hard Cover. Very Good. Szerzo Kiadasa / Montreal Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : wb8106613
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Birket Smith Kaj
Moeurs et coutumes des Eskimo
France: Payot 1955 Pr�face de Diamond Jenness du Mus�e National Danois d'Ottawa. Nouvelle �dition revue et mise � jour par l'auteur avec la collaboration de Claude Desgoffe Charg�e de mission. avec une carte et 10 gravures hors-texte. Ex-libris au nom du propri�taire sur page de garde Payot paperback
书商的参考编号 : 001323
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Caplan Pat
Understanding Disputes: The Politics of Argument Explorations in Anthropology
Bloomsbury Academic 1995. clean unmarked copy. Paperback. Fine. Bloomsbury Academic Paperback
书商的参考编号 : 361049 ???????? : 085496925x 9780854969258
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Hawthorn Audrey
A Labour of Love The Making of the Museum of Anthropology UBC The First Three Decades 1947-1976 Museum Note No. 33
Vancouver BC: U.B.C. Museum of Anthropology 1993. Miniscule rubbing bumping or shelfwear to covers. Spine straight and uncreased. Interior tight and unmarked. 89 pp. First. Pictorial Card. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. U.B.C. Museum of Anthropology Paperback
书商的参考编号 : 005744 ???????? : 0888651244 9780888651242
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Instituto Nacional De Antropologia
Monte Alban Mitla: Official Guide - I. N. A. H
Mexico: Instituto Nacional De Antropologia. Very Good. 1965. Later Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall Used Instituto Nacional De Antropologia's Monte Alban Mitla: Official Guide In pictorial wraps 8vo 41ppfold out illustration. light shelfwear. . Instituto Nacional De Antropologia paperback
书商的参考编号 : 0770505
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Weems Robert E.
An Unusual Newly Discovered Archosaur from the Upper Triassic of Virginia U.S.A. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Volume 70 Part 7 1980
Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society 1980. Retired library copy in the original printed wraps with the usual stamps stickers and labels. Textblock is very clean and tight. Covers slightly edge and corner rubbed with some light wrinkling around the spine. 53p. Stapled Wraps. Good. Illus. by Black and White Photos and Illustrations. 4to - Over 9 �" -12" Tall. Ex-Library Periodical. The American Philosophical Society Paperback
书商的参考编号 : EW2192 ???????? : 0871697076 9780871697073
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Thompson J. Eric S.
Maya Hieroglyphic Writing Introduction Publication 589
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington 1950. Retired library copy with usual stamps stickers labels and markings. Blind-embossed seal on title/copyright page. Bottom edges are gently moisture stained and rippled else textblock is clean and tight. Tear to the corners of the spine moisture stained bottom corners and creasing to corners moderate character worn. 347pp. including index. First Edition. Tan Wraps. Good. Illus. by Photographs/Symbols. 4to - Over 9 �" -12" Tall. Ex-Library Paperback. Carnegie Institution of Washington Paperback
书商的参考编号 : SB7722
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McHugh Ernestine
Love and Honor in the Himalayas: Coming to Know Another Culture Series: Contemporary Ethnography
University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia 2001. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo hardcover. Brown cloth; no dust jacket. Vg condition. 1-inch chip to top corner of front endpaper & top inside corner of first 4 pages ending by Table of Contents not affecting text at all; contents bright crisp & clean clearly unread. xviii 180 p. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 1060301.36 ???????? : 081223586X 9780812235869
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Ogbomo Onaiwu W
When Men and Women Mattered : A History of Gender Relations among the Owan of Nigeria
Rochester NY U.S.A.: University of Rochester Press. NEW/NEW in Mylar Cover. 1997. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 1878822780 . University of Rochester Press hardcover
书商的参考编号 : Africa-Hist_044 ???????? : 1878822780 9781878822789
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Raymond C. Kelly
Etoro Social Structure: A Study in Structural Contradiction
University of Michigan Press 1980. clean unmarked copy. faded spine. Paperback. Very Good. University of Michigan Press Paperback
书商的参考编号 : 361057 ???????? : 0472085050 9780472085057
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Brickman Celia
Aboriginal Populations in the Mind: : Race and Primitivity in Psychoanalysis
Columbia University Press 2003. 285pp orange trade paperback VG chapter notes and references bibliography index a study of how the 19th century attitudes in anthropology toward race influenced the ideas Freud developed in psychcoanalysis and how they compare to what the present practice is. First Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. Columbia University Press Paperback
书商的参考编号 : w170923961 ???????? : 0231125836 9780231125833
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Gould Stephen Jay
The Mismeasure of Man
New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company 1981. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey boards red cloth spine with gilt titles 352 pp many figures bibliography index. DJ spine sunned both corners clipped off front flap; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "This book is about the abstraction of intelligence as a single entity its location within the brain its quantification as one number for each individual and the use of these numbers to rank people in a single series of worthiness invariably to find that oppressed and disadvanged groups--races classes or sexes--are innately inferior and deserve their status. In short this book is about the Mismeasure of Man." Shipping weight 2 lbs. First Edition. . Fine/VG. 22 X 15� cm. W. W. Norton & Company Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : SSAN00023 ???????? : 0393014894 9780393014891
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Levi Strauss Claude
A World on the Wane Tristes Tropiques
New York: Criterion Books 1961. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by John Russell. Full green cloth gilt titles on spine 404 pp 24 ff b & w photo plates line drawings bibliography index. Some edge wear. DJ edge-worn with a 1 cm tear to rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. The US edition omits four of forty chapters from the original French edition which was published in 1955 under the title Triste Tropiques. From the DJ: "Here are intricate detailed accounts of the Caduveo and the elaborate painted designs behind which the hide their 'natural' faces . . . the rigid hierarchical society of the Bororo . . . the Nambikwara who win a sort of security by giving wives to their chief . . . the disease and superstition-ridden Tupi-Kawahib whose weird tribal dances sometimes last for days. .L�vi-Strauss sets these tribes in a world context and draws fascinating comparisons and parallels." Shipping weight 2 lbs. Later printing. . VG/VG. 21� X 14� cm. Criterion Books Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : SSAN00022
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Hoagland Hudson & Ralph W. Burhoe Eds.
Evolution and Man's Progress
New York & London: Columbia University Press 1962. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full black cloth foil titles on spine top edge dyed green iii 181 pp chapter notes glossary. A few small spots on boards & top edge. DJ extremities rubbed; in Brodart archival cover. Contains essays on human genetic & cultural evolution by James F. Crow Hermann J. Muller Julian H. Seward Demitri B. Shimkin Walter A. Rosenblith B. F. Skinner and Henry A. Murray. The entire collection was first published in the Summer 1961 issue of Daedalus. Shipping weight 2 lbs. International 1 lb. 12 oz. . VG/VG. 24 X 16 cm. Columbia University Press Hardcover
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Leakey Richard & Roger Lewin
Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human
New York London Toronto Sydney & Auckland: Doubleday 1992. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards charcoal grey cloth spine with gilt titles endpaper maps xxii 375 pp 12 ff b & w photo plates 16 illustrations in text index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 3 lbs. International 2 lbs. 8 oz. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm. Doubleday Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : SSAN00020 ???????? : 0385412649 9780385412643
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Furness Franklin N. Ed.
Annals of the New York Acacemy of Sciences Volume 96 Art. 2 Pages 491-679: Anthropology and Africa Today
New York: New York Academy of Sciences 1962. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Glossy paper side-stapled in tan printed paper wraps 24 figures including maps & b & w photos notes. One leaf dog-eared covers slightly sunned near edges owner's name rubber-stamped on front cover. Contains papers presented at a conference held May 1-3 1961 by Ethel Boissevain; Louis S. B. Leakey; Herbert S. Lewis; Warren L. d'Azevedo; Francis P. Conant; William Bascom; W. B. Schwab; Roger W. Wescott; Robert A. & Barbara B. Levine; Igor Kopytoff; E. Colson; Soy Sieber; Elliott P. Skinner; and Absolom Vilakazi. Shipping weight 2 lbs. International 1 lb. 4 oz. Wraps. Near Fine/No dj. 23 X 15� cm. New York Academy of Sciences Paperback
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Ebihara May & Rosamond Gianutsos Eds.
Papers in Anthropology and Linguistics Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Volume 318
New York: New York Academy of Sciences 1978. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Perfect-bound in blue & white wraps vii 114 pp. Ownership stamp on half-title else fine. Anthropology contents: introduction by May Ebihara; forensic anthropology by Harry L. Shapiro; ethnicity and stratification in the urban United States by Leith Mullings; religious coexistence in northern Zambia: intellectualism and materialism in Yombe by Mario Bick. Linguistics contents: introduction by Rosamond Gianutsos; are LASSes better than LADs by Sheila J. White; situational variability in the speech of preschool children by M. Cole J. Dore W. S. Hall and Gillian Dowley; testing morphological productivity by Mark Aronoff and Roger Schvaneveldt. Shipping weight 1 lb. Wraps. Near Fine/No dj. 23 X 15� cm. New York Academy of Sciences Paperback
书商的参考编号 : SSAN00019 ???????? : 0890720770 9780890720776
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Blum Leon
Marriage
Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company 1937. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by Warre Bradley Wells. Green cloth gilt titles on spine & facsimile signature on front board frontis. 330 pp. Front flyleaf separated at gutter but repaired otherwise very good spine sunned. Blum states his conclusion--that young people are naturally polygamous developing a taste for monogamy and thus being suitable for marriage only after considerable experience--then rambles on giving examples of how this works and what happens if one tries to ignore it. Shipping weight 2 lbs. . G/No dj. 21 X 14� cm. J. B. Lippincott Company Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : SSCU00014
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Zimmer Carl
Smithsonian Guide to Human Origins
New York: Smithsonian Books/Collins An Imprint of HarperCollins 2005. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards foil titles on spine & device on front board 176 pp 100 mostly color illustrations bibliography index. Bottom edge & corner of rear board bumped slight rubbing to tail of spine else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Presents the fossil & DNA evidence for human evolution in a readable manner. Shipping weight 3 lbs. International 2 lbs. 8 oz. First Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. 21� X 18� cm. Smithsonian Books/Collins (An Imprint of HarperCollins) Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : SSAN00017
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Price A. Grenfell
White Settlers in the Tropics American Geographical Society Special Publication No. 23
New York: American Geographical Society 1939. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey wraps black titles xiii 311 2 pp 88 figures 18 tables notes index. Small chips & tears near spine ends else very good covers browning pencil notes on ffep & margins of pp 254-5. Defining the tropics by climate rather than latitude and settlers as permanent residents rather than officials missionaries etc. Price looks at the problems northern Europeans face in tropical settlements. He discusses settlements in the West Indies Florida Queensland tropical Australia Costa Rica and South America Africa and Panama then devotes a series of chapters to racial problems environmental factors acclimatization & health diet clothing & exercise and administrative & economic problems. Shipping weight 2 lbs. First Edition. Soft Cover. G/No dj. 25� X 17 cm. American Geographical Society Paperback
书商的参考编号 : SSHE00003
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Frazer Sir James George Ed. Theodor H. Gaster
The New Golden Bough
New York: S. G. Phillips Inc. 1972. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth gilt titles on spine xxx 736 pp index. DJ lightly rubbed at extremities; in Brodart archival cover. Gaster's single-volume abridgement of Frazer's 13-volume study of "magic taboos sexual practices superstition and wizardry.preserves the original thesis structure and documentation while omitting those subsidiary and incidental elements which recent research has rendered untenable." Gaster has also added documentation of newer discoveries. . Fine/Near Fine. 23� X 16 cm. S. G. Phillips, Inc. Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : SSCU00008
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Jia Lanpo & Huang Weiwen
The Story of Peking Man: From Archaeology to Mystery
Hong Kong & London: Oxford University Press 1990. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Joint publisher: Foreign Languages Press Beijing. Translated by Yin Zhiqi. Brown paper-covered boards gilt titles on spine vii 270 pp numerous b&w photos facsimile documents & maps footnotes index. Bottom corners & tail of spine a bit rubbed. DJ in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "The discovery at Zhoudoudian village in 1929 of the fossil remains of what is now known internationally as Peking Man is indisputably one of the most significant events in modern archaeology. The Story of Peking Man is an account of that discovery written by one of China's foremost palaeoanthropologists Jia Lanpo who himself took part in the excavations and his young colleague archaeologist Huang Weiwen. In vivid language the authors reconstruct the story of the excavations the many important discoveries made by the international team of scientists and the subsequent disappearence of the fossils. .draws on many previously unpublished sources including field reports and personal letters and photographs." Shipping weight 3 lbs. First Edition in English. . Near Fine/Fine. 25 X 19� cm. Oxford University Press Hardcover
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Bowles Gordon T.
The People of Asia
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1977. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Peoples of the World series Series Editor Sonia Cole. Black boards gold foil titles on spine xiv 414 pp 16 tables 8 maps figure notes index. Corners of rear board lightly bumped. DJ covered with adhesive plastic else near fine two small tears and slight wear. Cultural and biological study of Asian peoples from prehistoric times to the present. Shipping weight 3 lbs. First US Edition. . Near Fine/VG. 23� X 16 cm. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : SSAN00014 ???????? : 0684156253 9780684156255
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Picker Fred & Thor Heyerdahl
Rapa Nui
New York: Paddington Press Ltd 1974. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in glossy laminated covers 135 pp. About a 1 X 4 cm chip to bottom of preliminary blank slight wear to covers else fine. Consists mostly of photographs of Easter Island and accompanying text by Fred Picker with a 5-page historical summary by Thor Heyerdahl. Shipping weight 2 lbs. First Edition. Wraps. 27� X 23 cm. Paddington Press Ltd Paperback
书商的参考编号 : SSAN00009 ???????? : 0846700212 9780846700210
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Johanson Donald & James Shreeve
Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor
New York: William Morrow and Company Inc. 1989. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter light brown cloth with brown paper-covered boards illustrated endpapers 318 pp 8ff color plates numerous b/w illlustrations maps bibliography index. Tail of spine turned in edges of boards faded else fine. DJ has minimal edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. First person account of the discovery of a Homo habilis fossil in 1986. Shipping weight 2 lbs. BOMC. . Near Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm. William Morrow and Company, Inc. Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : SSAN00001 ???????? : 0688064922 9780688064921
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Macgowan Kenneth Ill. by Campbell Grant
Early Man in the New World
New York: The Macmillan Company 1950. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth xviii 260 pp frontispiece numerous b & w drawings notes index. Spine ends rubbed light soil to edges errata sheet laid in. DJ moderately rubbed torn to 1" and chipped at extremities in mylar cover. First Edition. . VG/VG. 21� X 14� cm. The Macmillan Company Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : SSAN00003
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Glynn Prudence
Skin to Skin: Eroticism in Dress
New York: Oxford University Press 1982. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Maroon cloth-textured boards gilt titles on spine 157 pp many illustrations. Slight wear to spine ends probable remainder mark on top edge. DJ has a small chip at head of spine and is covered with adhesive plastic. This book answers the question "Why not just go naked" Cataloguing this in a Minnesota winter I have my own anwer. Shipping weight 3 lbs. First US Edition. . Near Fine/VG. 28� X 22� cm. Oxford University Press Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : FBFA00001 ???????? : 0195203917 9780195203912
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Comas Juan
Manual of Physical Anthropology
Springfield IL: Charles C Thomas 1960. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Revised and enlarged English translation of Manual de Antropolog�a F�sica which was published in Dec. 1957. Tan leather-textured cloth printed on coated paper xxi 775 pp 116 figures notes bibliography index. Extremities slightly rubbed underlining on a few pages. Contents: historical review & definitions; the origin & evolution of man; heredity; growth; somatology; biotypology and constitutional types; craniology & osteology; paleoanthropology; racial classification & living human groups; application & teaching of physical anthropology. First Edition in English. . VG/No dj. 23� X 16 cm. Charles C Thomas Hardcover
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Heyerdahl Thor
Early Man and the Ocean: A Search for the Beginnings of Navigation and Seaborne Civilizations
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc 1979. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter blue cloth with blue paper-covered boards gilt titles on spine maps on endpapers xiii 438 pp 2 ff b & w plates 28 illustrations in text notes bibliography index. Edges of boards slightly faded else fine. DJ moderately rubbed covered with adhesive plastic. According to Heyerdahl's preface this book is "an anthology of reports and speeches previously published independently which I have here combined and edited to form a coherent book." Heyerdahl explores the evidence for early navigation found in ancient petroglyphs seals reliefs pottery etc. He also considers the navigational capabilities of various types of ancient vessels ocean currents archeological evidence suggesting contact between ancient civilizations. Shipping weight 2 lbs. First US Edition. . Near Fine/VG. 21� X 14� cm. Doubleday & Company, Inc Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : SSAN00012 ???????? : 0385127103 9780385127103
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Levin M. G. & L. P. Potapov Eds.
The Peoples of Siberia
Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press 1964. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth viii 948 pp hundreds of b & w photos & drawings bibliography glossary index. Ex private library with name stamped on edges & fpd slight rubbing to spine ends. Price-clipped DJ spine ends worn a 1" tear to top of front panel book & jacket covered with heavy mylar. Lacks the large folding map that should be in rear pocket. Thirty native Siberian peoples are described in articles covering "the identification of the people concerned; the testimony of historical sources; the livelihood dwellings dress foods and manufactures of the group; native social organization and religion; contacts with the Russians; and some discussion of how the people fared during the Revolution and the period of socialist reconstruction." Shipping weight 4 lbs. First US Edition. . VG/VG. 23� X 16 cm. The University of Chicago Press Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : SSAN00013
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Mills Clarence A.
Climate Makes the Man
New York: Harper & Brothers 1942. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Maroon cloth gilt titles on spine vi 320 pp 3 ff b & w plates including frontispiece. Externally bumped & rubbed spine & edges slightly faded half-title torn at gutter a few dog-eared leaves & marginal notes in pencil. The author a professor of experimental medicine examines the influence of climate on longevity activity courses of diseases etc. in laboratory animals farm animals & humans. First Edition. . G/No dj. 22� X 15� cm. Harper & Brothers Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : SSAN00004
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