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Crump Marty.
Headless Males Make Great Lovers & Other Unusual Histories.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2005. Illustrated by Alan Crump. First N edition. Paper covered boards. 8vo. pp. 199. Index. As New/In like jacket/No price in mylar. ISBN: 0226121992. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. hardcover
Referência livreiro : OWBHEA115978 ISBN : 0226121992 9780226121994
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Lamshed Max
'Monty': The Biography of C. P. Mountford
Rigby Adelaide 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. list of illustrations and index. Pale olive coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photography. Brown coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Photographic dustwrapper with yellow and black coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the backstrip. The biography of Charles Percy Mountford known to all as "Monty". Not academically trained in ethnology / anthropology Monty studied by himself and became an acknowledged expert in the Australian Aboriginal culture much to the annoyance of mainstream academia of the time. This biography shows ". a man of wit courage and resolution who despite initial disadvantages has become one of the world's leading laboratories on the culture of the Australian Aborigines." -- from the front fold over panel blurb. Minor rubbing to the book corners with foxing to the top textblock edge and scattered foxing to the other edges. Minor creasing to the dustwrapper edges and rubbing of the panels. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. 8 222 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture s. Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Anthropology; Australia; Indigenous Cultures. ISBN: 0851794270. ISBN/EAN: 9780851794273. Inventory No: 0119796. . 9780851794273 Rigby hardcover
Referência livreiro : 0119796 ISBN : 0851794270 9780851794273
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Brooks Geraldine
Nine Parts Of Desire - The Hidden World Of Islamic Women
Anchor Books Sydney 2001. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. clean copy edges of the pages darkened with age and small crease at the top right hand corner of the front panel. The author presents stunning vignettes of Muslim women� And carefully distinguishes misogyny and oppressive cultural traditions from what she considers the true teachings of the Koran Size: Trade Paperback. 255 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture s. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sociology & Culture; Islam; Anthropology; Cultural; Religion & Theology. ISBN: 0868246263. ISBN/EAN: 9780868246260. Inventory No: 0261892. . 9780868246260 Anchor Books paperback
Referência livreiro : 0261892 ISBN : 0868246263 9780868246260
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Howard D. Winters
The Riverton Culture: A Second Millenium Occupation in the Central Wabash Valley
Illinois State Museum 1969. Originals tiff wraps. Illustrated b/w photographs throughout. Pages are clean unmarked but yellowed with age. Hinges are slightly creased but still secure. Inner text block tight and sound. Shelfwear slight bumping to corners moderate rubbing to extremities. Nice reading copy. This book deals with excavations in the Robeson Hills Riverton and Swan Island shell middens of the central Wabash Valley during the spring summer and fall of 1962 and the summer of 1963 at the Riverton Site. All three are closely related components within a hitherto unreported Archaic culture typified by a distinctive micro-tool industry in chert. The culture has been named the Riverton Culture after the site at which the micro-tool tradition was first noted in surface collections. First Edition. Oversized Softcover. Good -/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. Illinois State Museum Paperback
Referência livreiro : 91433
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Schele Linda and David Friedel
A Forest of Kings the Untold Story of the Ancien Maya
New York NY: William Morrow 1990. A nice reading copy. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight. Book and jacket show some shelfwear. Jacket has been mylared for protection. Black and white illustrations throughout one section of color photos. Jacket is scuffed and worn at the edges and corners. First Edition 1st printing. Hard Cover. Good /Good. Mylared. William Morrow Hardcover
Referência livreiro : 114043 ISBN : 0688074561 9780688074562
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Matthiessen Peter
Men's Lives
Collins Harvill London 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. this book is a powerful and moving portrait of the fishermen of eastern Long Island where the author has lived for 35 years. This is the story of a tragedy that can and does happen anywhere but has never been described before such passion and rare conviction. In their own harsh sparing cadences it is the story of the men and women who is calling with their fathers' and forefathers' before them: of their anger and the world and at the forces dividing them from their hard held traditions; of how so recklessly politics money and progress can conspire to destroy a community a way of life a proud history. � dust jacket blurb the top and front edge have a couple of grubby marks internally the book is clean and free of annotation. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. 256 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture s. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sociology & Culture; Social Sciences; United States of America; anthropology. ISBN: 0002725193. ISBN/EAN: 9780002725194. Inventory No: 0261611. . 9780002725194 Collins Harvill hardcover
Referência livreiro : 0261611 ISBN : 0002725193 9780002725194
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Toombs Lawrence E. SIGNED
Tell el-Hesi: Modern Military Trenching and Muslim Cemetery in Field I Strata I-II - The Joint Archaeological Expedition to Tell El-Hesi Volume Two
Waterloo Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine . Archaeological research in southern Israel by the professor 1919-2007 of Religion & Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University. xxii 250 pages with more than 80 B&W photographs of individual burials & burial goods with tables plans & section drawings. Complete with 4 back pocket map inserts & legends for pocket inserts. 4to - over 9� - 12" tall. <br/> <br/> Wilfrid Laurier University Press hardcover
Referência livreiro : 005733 ISBN : 088920134X 9780889201347
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Smithsonian
Art Treasures of Turkey Circulated By the Smithsonian Institution 1966-1968
Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press 1966. pages clean. binding very loose with numerous places where pages lay flat hinges creased/cracked. edge wear with chips. corners dented. covers worn ink rubbed/chipped dulled aged ect. covers creased along spine edge from use. spine edges worn creased chipped dented. general shelf wear. a good reading copy. . Unknown Edition Printing. Trade Paperback. Good -. Oversize Paperback. Smithsonian Institution Press Paperback
Referência livreiro : 111106
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Time Life Books
What Life Was Like Among Druids and High Kings: Celtic Ireland AD 400-1200
Alexandria VA: Time Life Books 1998. A nice reading copy. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight. Book and jacket show some shelfwear. Jacket has been mylared for protection. Large photos and illustrations throughout. This is an oversized book and may require extra postage. First Edition 1st printing. Oversized Hardcover. Very Good -/Good . Mylared. Time Life Books Hardcover
Referência livreiro : 111586 ISBN : 0783554559 9780783554556
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Emery WB. W. B.
Archaic Egypt
London: Penguin 1991. pages yellowed. remainder mark. binding tight hinges cracked. edge wear with dents chips. corners dented starting to split. covers worn scratched scuffed ink rubbed/chipped ect. covers creased along spine edge from use. spine edges worn creased chipped dented. general shelf wear. a good reading copy. . 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Good -. Penguin Paperback
Referência livreiro : 111529 ISBN : 0140136932 9780140136937
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White J. Peter Text
Before the White Man
Reader's Digest Sydney 1974. First Edition. Softcover Stiff Boards. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 32 pages. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white and coloured photographs and black-and-white and coloured illustrations. Photographic covers wraparound showing decoration of sacred rocks with black writing on the front panel. A small pamphlet on the prehistory of the Australian Aborigines put out by the Reader's Digest group of companies. apart from very slight loss of colour on the left-hand margin of the front cover there is no damage. The book includes many examples of Aboriginal art This is the first Australian edition. Size: 4to 9�" - 12" tall. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture s. Quantity Available: 1. Category: anthropology; Aboriginal; Anthropology ; Australia; Ancient BC; Indigenous Cultures. ISBN: 0909486271. ISBN/EAN: 9780909486273. Inventory No: 0259587. . 9780909486273 Reader's Digest hardcover
Referência livreiro : 0259587 ISBN : 0909486271 9780909486273
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Patrick Richard
All Color Book of Egyptian Mythology
London: Octopus Books 1972. A nice reading copy. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight. Book and jacket show some shelfwear. Jacket has been mylared for protection. 100 color photographs. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Mylared. Octopus Books Hardcover
Referência livreiro : 108394 ISBN : 070640128X 9780706401288
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O'Faolain Sean
The Irish
Penguin Books Middlesex England 1981. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. explanation by author and appendix. Colour illustrated card cover with black coloured titles to the front panel and black-and-white coloured titles to the backstrip. A creative history detailing the growth of the Irish mind from the wild Celts to the invasion of both the Danes and Normans then of the English and of the upsurge of Irish nationalism 1800s are discussed in a clear thought-provoking manner. Basically how the Irish became the Irish. A little creasing to the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Light browning of the textblock edges and pages. Size: 12mo standard paperback. 174 2 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture s. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Ireland; Anthropology. ISBN: 0140051112. ISBN/EAN: 9780140051117. Inventory No: 0117979. . 9780140051117 Penguin Books paperback
Referência livreiro : 0117979 ISBN : 0140051112 9780140051117
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Catullus; Ronnie Ancona Latin Text Notes Vocabulary
Writing Passion a Catullus Reader
Wauconda Il.: Bolchazy-carducci 2005. pages clean edges dulled soiled slightly. binding tight hinges creased. edge wear with dents. corners dented creased and starting to split. covers worn dented scratched scuffed ect. general shelf wear. a good reading copy. . Not Stated. Trade Paperback. Good. Bolchazy-carducci Paperback
Referência livreiro : 107052 ISBN : 0865164827 9780865164826
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Brace C. Loring
The Stages of Human Evolution Human and Cultural Origins
U.S.A.: Prentice Hall 1967. pages dulled. inside covers soiled. binding loose hinges cracked/broken. edge wear with dents tears chips. corners dented creased and split. covers worn aged dented creased scratched scuffed ink chipped ect. back cover soiled slightly and yellowng. covers creased along spine edge from use. spine edges worn creased dented chipped. general shelf wear. a decent reading copy. . Later Printing. Trade Paperback. Fair. Prentice Hall Paperback
Referência livreiro : 106823
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Knauft Bruce
The Gebusi: Lives transformed in a Rainforest World Second Edition
New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education 2010. 2nd Edition . Trade Paperback. Fine. 193 pages with index & B&W photos. 8vo - over 7� - 9�" tall <br/> <br/> McGraw-Hill Higher Education paperback
Referência livreiro : 005262 ISBN : 007340537x 9780073405377
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Stull Donald D. & Michael J. Broadway
Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America Case Studies on Contemporary Soicial Issues Second Edition
WADSWORTH Cengage Learning 2013. 2nd Edition . Trade Paperback. Fine. An expanded second edition. 227 pages with index and B&W photos. 8vo - over 7� - 9�" tall. <br/> <br/> WADSWORTH Cengage Learning paperback
Referência livreiro : 005264 ISBN : 1111828784 9781111828783
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Edel May
The Story of Our Ancestors
the Bodley Head London 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Herbert Danska . 1 inch tear at the top left of the front panel and slight rubbing across the top edge. Previous owner's rubber name stamp on the front end page and their bookplate on the front free end page. There is no other damage to describe. How did man begin How did he grow into the upright creature that he is with nimble fingers and a giant brain The story of our 1st origins is as fascinating as a jigsaw puzzle. � Here is the story as we know it today and account of the scientific adventures in which clues to the puzzle were discovered. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. 8 200 pages indexed and illustrated with black-and-white line drawings and diagrams. Please refer to accompanying picture s. Illustrator: Herbert Danska . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Anthropology; evolution; Science & Technology. Inventory No: 0254365. . the Bodley Head hardcover
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Levi Strauss Claude
the scope of anthropology
Jonathan Cape London 1967. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. there are a couple of tape marks to the fold over flap of the dust jacket and previous owner's name on the 1st page and on page 44 the previous owner has bracketed two lines. this is volume 1 in the CAPE EDITION Size: 12mo standard paperback. 56 pages. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture s. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Anthropology; ISBN: 0224612719. ISBN/EAN: 9780224612715. Inventory No: 0254097. . 9780224612715 Jonathan Cape paperback
Referência livreiro : 0254097 ISBN : 0224612719 9780224612715
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Duly Colin
The Houses of Mankind
London: Thames & Hudson 1979. pages dull yellowing. binding loose with numerous cracks to binding; hinges cracked as well. edge wear with dents. corners dented starting to split. covers worn aged dented creased scratched scuffed ink chipped ect. covers creased along spine edge from use. spine edges worn creased dented chipped and torn horizontally across the middle of spine. general shelf wear. a decent reading copy. . British Edition Unknown Printing. Trade Paperback. Fair. Oversize Paperback. Thames & Hudson Paperback
Referência livreiro : 101617
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Rudd Matt
The English � a Field Guide
William Collins London 2013. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. the author emulates David Attenborough and instead of doing it with gorillas does it with the English asking questions such as what is this species the English Where does it live What doesn't it Why does it eat that And why has developed such an exotic mating rituals No cliche is left unturned in his attempts to answer whether the English are really a nation of binge drinking horse meat eating tailgating grumbling slobs or is there something altogether more beautiful to be found lurking behind the Cypress leylandii Size: Trade Paperback. Please refer to accompanying picture s. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Anthropology; United Kingdom; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0007490453. ISBN/EAN: 9780007490455. Inventory No: 0251702. . 9780007490455 William Collins paperback
Referência livreiro : 0251702 ISBN : 0007490453 9780007490455
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Bell Simon & Curtis Richard & Fielding Helen
SEX Who's Had Who in Association with Berk's Rogerage
Faber & Faber London 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Various. previous owner has whited out their name at the top of the title page. There is no other damage to describe for either of the book or if the jacket. First Irving Wallace came out with the book of lists now naming only people that are no longer alive probably so that litigation cannot happen this book is a who's who of people who have lain with each other and not just fallen asleep. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. 384 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture s. Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sociology & Culture; Anthropology. ISBN: 0571145787. ISBN/EAN: 9780571145782. Inventory No: 0250857. . 9780571145782 Faber & Faber paperback
Referência livreiro : 0250857 ISBN : 0571145787 9780571145782
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van der Post Laurens
The Lost World of the Kalahari With "Great and the Little Memory" � a new epilogue by the author
William Morrow & Co New York 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: David Coulson � photography. the dustjacket is rubbed across the bottom edge with a short tear on the spine and rubbed at the top left of the front panel. There is no damage to describe of the book itself. The book is illustrated with colourful page and double page photographs and some black-and-white drawings to head the chapters. Now in this 30th anniversary reissue of the author's classic tale of adventure 75 stunning full-colour photographs have been added and Sir Laurens has written a wonderfully enriching epilogue. Size: 4to 9�" - 12" tall. 264 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture s. Illustrator: David Coulson � photography. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Anthropology; Africa; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 068808608X. ISBN/EAN: 9780688086084. Inventory No: 0250137. . 9780688086084 THIS BOOK WILL INCUR EXTRA POST OUTSIDE OF AUSTRALIA BECAUSE IT IS OVER 1 Kg WITHOUT PACKAGING PLEASE ENQUIRE BEFORE ORDERING. William Morrow & Co hardcover
Referência livreiro : 0250137 ISBN : 068808608X 9780688086084
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GAGNE JEAN Editeur
L'H�ritage de Pers�phone
Canada: Self Published 2010. Soft cover. Very Good. Une vie decoder un poem ancien: l'Hymne a Demeter. White covers with illustration on front cover. 138 pages with B&W photos & illustrations. 8vo - over 7� - 9�" tall. Slight edge wear. <br/> <br/> Self Published paperback
Referência livreiro : 004749 ISBN : 2981175807 9782981175809
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Leach Barbara editor
The Aborigine Today
Paul Hamlyn Sydney 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 160 pp notes bibliography notes on writers. Photography of the book done by Roderick Hulsbergen all are in colour. Photographic endpapers. The book has black coloured boards with gilt writing on spine. The corners are bumped and there is shelf wear evident on the bottom edges. On the last two pages of the book there are 2 black marks . Photographic dustwrapper that has minor rubbing along its edges. There is a small triangular tear to back gutter dustwrapper. This 1971 book was an attempt of the writers to examine the aboriginal people and their situation in the wake of social conscience being awoken of white Australia to the indigenous inhabitants. The photographs are of the aboriginal people and their lives as it was in 1971. Size: 4to 9�" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture s. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Aboriginal -- Australia; Sociology ; Anthropology ; ISBN: 0600300595. ISBN/EAN: 9780600300595. Inventory No: win112. . 9780600300595 THIS BOOK WEIGHS OVER 1KG WITHOUT PACKING AND EXTRA POST WILL BE REQUIRED FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE AUSTRALIA. PLEASE ENQUIRE FOR COSTS BEFORE YOU ORDER THANK YOU. Paul Hamlyn hardcover
Referência livreiro : win112 ISBN : 0600300595 9780600300595
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Trezise PJ
Quinkan Country; Adventures in Search of Aboriginal Cave Paintings in Cape York
A.H & A. W. Reed Sydney 1969. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Good/Good. 154 pp appendix preface. line maps on endpapers. Numerous photographic inserts along with black and white drawings within the text by author. Coloured frontis drawn by author. Tan cloth boards with white writing on spine. Slight bumping to corners. Minor shelf wear evidenced on bottom edge. Some dust marks on top edge of paper. Photographic dustwrapper has rubbing along front edge of front cover and minor rubbing to the back front cover. Top and bottom of spine has loss of colour and creasing. There is a crease along top 1/2 of the back panel. This book is story of one man's search for the art galleries of the Australian Aborigines in Cape York Peninsula and the adventures and experiences that befell him. It is with his aboriginal friends reintroduced galleries that prompt them to tell the author some of their tribal legends. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture s. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Indigenous Cultures; Mythology ; Religion ; Anthropology ; Australia; Inventory No: win108. . A.H & A. W. Reed hardcover
Referência livreiro : win108
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Morley Sylvanus G. And George W. Brainerd Revised By Robert J. Sharer
The Ancient Maya Fourth ed.
U.S.A.: Stanford University Press 1983. pages dull yellowing. binding tight but hinges creased/cracked. edge wear with denting and chips. corners dented creased and split. covers have random dents dings scratches creases ink chips scuff marks yellowing soiling ect. general shelf wear. a good reading copy. . Fourth Edition Later Printing. Trade Paperback. Good -. Stanford University Press Paperback
Referência livreiro : 87854 ISBN : 0804712883 9780804712880
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TriQuarterly creator; Newman Charles editor
For Vladimir Nabokov on His Seventieth Birthday TriQuarterly Number Seventeen Winter 1970
Triquarterly Books 1970. 371pp. Original pictorial stiff wraps. Essays by; John Updike John Barth Anthony Burgess Herbert Old Hortense Calisher David Wagoner Brock Brower Alfred Kazin Morris Bishop. and many more. Pages are clean no writing underlining or highlighting but beginning to yellow with age. Crease to text block between page 356/567 which does not effect spine; hinges are slightly loose but still secure. Covers are moderately ink-rubbed with some sunning/finger soiling 1" scrape to lower rear panel. Edgewear bumping to edges 1" tear to front panel at spine repaired using archival tape rubbing to extremities. This is NOT a remainde ror ex-library. Nice reading copy. . First Thus Collectible. Trade Paperback. Fair/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Triquarterly Books Paperback
Referência livreiro : 75801
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Cowley Clive
Fabled Tribe; A Journey to Discover the River Bushmen of the Okavango Swamps
Longmans London and Harlow 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. foreword by R. C. J. Van Hoostraten acknowledgements and foreword by author bibliography and index. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photography. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Photographic dustwrapper with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of expedition members and friends to the rear dustwrapper panel. An expedition set out from Witwatersrand University to look for the legendary tribe of river Bushmen who lived in the vast swamps of the Okavango Basin a land locked area between the Kalahari Desert in Botswana and southern Africa. The author the only journalist on the team recounts the exciting journey and of the discovery of 14 surviving members of the Tannekwe people. Softening to the head and to the heel of the backstrip and rubbing to the lower book edges. Dust marks to the top textblock edge and age toning of the other textblock edges and of the internal pages. A little creasing to the dustwrapper edges and rubbing to the dustwrapper panels most noticeable to the rear panel. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. 6 VII-XIV 8 3-232 2 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture s. Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Indigenous Cultures; Africa; Anthropology. Inventory No: 0114116. . Longmans hardcover
Referência livreiro : 0114116
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Wendt Herbert
The Road to Man � an Informal History of Evolution Translated by Helen Sebba
Lutterworth Press London 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. dustjacket is rubbed across top and bottom edges with short tears near the spine and there is a residue from protective tape running across the bottom edge. Otherwise a clean sound copy which apart from previous owner's name is free of any annotation. that man is not the measure of all things but on the contrary "things" also impose their measure of man � this we realise nowhere more clearly than in our contact with animals. We are a part of the eternal waxing and waning just a small wave in the tide of life which in ceaseless change flows over rocks and shallows onward to God. Of this tide of life I now want to talk. � Page 16 Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. 252 pages. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture s. Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science & Technology; evolution; Anthropology. Inventory No: 0243551. . Lutterworth Press hardcover
Referência livreiro : 0243551
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Winlock Herbert E.
Tutankhamuns Funeral
U.S.A.: Yale University Press 2010. pages clean and bright. binding pretty tight. edge wear. corners dented creased slightly. general shelf wear. a good reading copy. . Unknown Edition Printing. Trade Paperback with Flaps. Good . Oversize Paperback. Yale University Press Paperback
Referência livreiro : 79735 ISBN : 1588393690 9781588393692
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Tingay GIF And J. Badcock G. I.
These Were the Romans
Great Britain: Hulton 1986. pages clean and bright. binding tight but hinges creased. edge wear. corners dented creased slightly. general shelf wear. a good reading copy. . Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good. Hulton Paperback
Referência livreiro : 78934 ISBN : 071750591X 9780717505913
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Loffler Ernst
Papua New Guinea
Australia: Gordon & Gotch 1981. pages clean. binding tight but hinges cracked/broken. edge wear. corners dented creased slightly. inside covers and end pages yellowed due to age. general shelf wear. a good reading copy. . Unknown Edition Printing. Trade Paperback. Good -. Oversize Paperback. Gordon & Gotch Paperback
Referência livreiro : 76652 ISBN : 0091354315 9780091354312
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Suter Peter.
SYRIEN 1990 Die Geschichte Syriens vom Neolithikum bis zur Entstehung des heutigen Staates.
Basel. 1990. Illustrated by b&w photographs maps floor plans. First edition. Yellow decorated stiff wraps. Inscribed by author. 4to. pp. 117. Near Fine. Light corner bump. The history of Syria from the Neolithic to the emergence of the modern state. Basel., 1990. paperback
Referência livreiro : OWBSYR115517
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Reader John
Missing Links; the Hunt for Earliest Man
Penguin London 1990. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. this classic account the author tells the story of the hunt for the fossil remains of our earliest ancestors � a story enlivened by fraud controversy and more than its fair share of English American and European eccentrics and enthusiasts. Size: Mid Sized Paperback 7�" - 9�" tall . John and 70 pages includes bibliography glossary index and 24 pages of black-and-white photography in illustrated softcover binding. The book is a secondhand book with reading creases to the spine and darkening of the page edges but is otherwise clean and free of annotation. Please refer to accompanying picture s. Quantity Available: 1. Category: archaeology; anthropology. ISBN: 0140139737. ISBN/EAN: 9780140139730. Inventory No: 0242400. . 9780140139730 Penguin paperback
Referência livreiro : 0242400 ISBN : 0140139737 9780140139730
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Levi Strauss Claude
Structural Anthropology
Penguin Books Middlesex England 1972. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Illustrator: Diagrams. author's preface to the French edition translator's preface introduction by author acknowledgements list of figures bibliography and index. Illustrated card cover with white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Creasing to the book corners and rubbing to the book edges spine gutter edges and reading creases to the backstrip. Some dust marks to the book panels and browning to the textblock edges and internal pages. "Claude Levi-Strauss regards Structural Anthropology as the most representative of his works. Containing seventeen papers written before 1958 and selected by himself it demonstrates his application of the structural method to a wide range of anthropological concerns including kinship social organisation religion mythology and art." -- from the rear panel blurb. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. 7 VIII-XVI 6 410 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture s. Illustrator: Diagrams. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Anthropology; ISBN: 0140600094. ISBN/EAN: 9780140600094. Inventory No: 0113163. . 9780140600094 Penguin Books paperback
Referência livreiro : 0113163 ISBN : 0140600094 9780140600094
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Orr R. B. Dir. Ed.
24th Annual ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORT 1912 being part of the Appendix to the report of the Minister of Education Ontario printed by order of the Legislative Assembly.
Toronto: L. K. Cameron William Briggs 1912. Illustrated by port tissue frontis Robert Allen Pyne M.D. color tissue plate of "Dress of an Algonquin Woman James Bay New Ontario" b&w figures reproductions charts folding map. First edition. "Compliments of Provincial Museum Toronto Rowland B. Orr M.B. Director" signature stamp of ffep. Original card printed wraps coated paper. Super Royal 8vo. pp. 116. Near Fine/Ex-Lib. College library stamp and numbers front cover and withdrawn stamp on pastedown; internally fine including folding map: Archaeological Map of Victoria County by Col. George E. Laidlaw 1912. Articles: Path and Trail; Algonquins dress and New Ontario; Pipes; Gouge and Gorgets; West Indian Stone Axe; Pottery Ceremonial Banner Stones; Bar Amulets Beat Stones Flints Pre-Columbian Copper Indian Skulls; List of Village Sites Victoria County; Snow Snake and the Indian game of Snow-snaking; Aboriginal Net fishing Long Pt. Bay Indian Pottery PEI Old Penetanguishene conservation Archaeological Evidences. Authors: Harris McVicar Laidlaw Left McCall Merril Osborne Harlan I. Smith. Note: Annuals starting in 1887 were not officially numbered until the 27th of 1915 making this the 24th in pencil on cover. See The Annual Archaeological Reports of Ontario 1887-1928 by Charles Garrad 1987. Toronto: L. K. Cameron (William Briggs), 1912. paperback
Referência livreiro : OWB[24115201
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Boyle David Dir. Ed 1842 1911.
Annual ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORT 1898 being part of the Appendix to the report of the Minister of Education Ontario printed by order of the Legislative Assembly.
Toronto: Warwick Bros. & Butler Printers 1898. Illustrated by 19 plates listed illustrations musical notation. First edition. Original clay wraps. Super Royal 8vo. pp. viii 211. Appendix Index. Very Good/Ex-Lib. College library stamp only marking top corner bumped throughout. Contents: Specimen notes: pottery pipes bird amulet cutting tools Bone harpoon copper tools Indian flute; Pagan Iroquois Pagan conditions Old Time Paganism Recent Indian Religions Skaneodye and Iroquois Paganism Mid-Winter Festival burning of the white dog Scattering of the Ashes Cayuga and Seneca Spring Dances Green Corn Dance Peach Stone Game Feast of the Skeleton Children's New Year Feast The word "Niyoh" Pagan Hell Spraying of heads Dream Interpretations Iroquois music Song Words Society of False Faces Society of Husk Masks Some Myths 6 listed of 513 Iroquois Gentes Chiefship Dress Dwelling houses Marriage and Separation Death Customs A Chief's Death Council Meetings Maize as food disease. Includes article: Archaeological Notes Victoria County by G. E. Laidlaw. Reports started with 1887 theoretically making this the 10th Annual if counting backwards from the official 27th annual of 1915. Toronto: Warwick Bros. & Butler, Printers, 1898. paperback
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Orr R. B. Dir. Ed.
20th-23rd Annual ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORT 1911 including 1908-9-10 being part of the Appendix to the report of the Minister of Education Ontario printed by order of the Legislative Assembly.
Toronto: L. K. Cameron William Briggs 1911. Illustrated by color tissue frontis Wampum Belt port tissue plate David Boyle b&w figures line drawings and reproductions. First edition. "Compliments of Provincial Museum Toronto R. B. Orr M.B. Director" stamp of ffep. Original card printed wraps coated paper. Super Royal 8vo. pp. 103. Near Fine/Ex-Lib. College library stamp and pen numbers on front cover and withdrawn stamp on pastedown; internally fine. Contents: Butler in "The Wild Northland" Dr. David Boyle Archaeology of the Province of Ontario Queenston Heights Murray Collection Attiwandarons Ground Stone Bird Amulets Ceremonial weapons Stone pipes and axes Gouge forms Smelser-Orr Collection Pipes wood and bone Awis Shell relics Huronia The Hurons. Includes article: Archaeological Evidence as Determined by Method and Selection by Harlan I. Smith. Note: Annuals starting in 1887 were not officially numbered until the 27th of 1915 making this the 20th-23rd in pencil on cover. See The Annual Archaeological Reports of Ontario 1887-1928 by Charles Garrad 1987. Toronto: L. K. Cameron (William Briggs), 1911. paperback
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Upham Thomas C. Cogswell 1799 1872.
JAHN'S BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY translated from the Latin with additions and corrections Fifth Edition Stereotyped.
New York: Mark H. Newman & Co 1849. Translated by Upham from the second Latin Abridgment Vienna 1814. Stated 5th from 2nd Latin edition. c.1839 thus. Original brown blind-stamped cloth. Medium 8vo 235cm. pp. xii 573. Index. Very Good/No jacket as issued. Traces of wear to binding embossed and ink stamps and pencil owners at endpapers foxing internally just beyond starting fore-edge ink stain involving several index pages . New York: Mark H. Newman & Co, 1849. hardcover
Referência livreiro : OWBJAH114996
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Lowie Robert H.
RELIGION OF THE CROW INDIANS. Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History Vol. XXV Part II The.
New York: Published by order of the Trustees 1922. First thus edition. Stitched wraps grey printed cover. 8vo. pp. ii 300-444. Very Good/In mylar protector. Old and new tape repairs to lightly soiled cover with one corner chip internally near fine. New York: Published by order of the Trustees, 1922. paperback
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Wise Michael O. Norman Golb John J. Collins and Dennis G. Pardee.
Methods of Investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Khirbet Qumran Site: Present Realities and Future Prospects
New York: New York Academy of Sciences 1994. Illustrated by color frontis b&w photographs and line drawings. First paper edition. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Volume 732. Gloss pictorial wraps. 8vo. pp. 514 Indices. Fine. ISBN: 08797667948. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1994. paperback
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Fisher Alton K. Herbert W. Kuhm George C. Adami.
DENTAL PATHOLOGY OF THE PREHISTORIC INDIANS OF WISCONSIN. Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee Vol. 10 No. 3
Milwaukee WI: Published by Order of the Board of Trustees Aetna Press June 15 1933. Illustrated by 10 plates numbered as Vol.10 61-70 bound with paginated guard sheets with descriptive letterpress. First thus edition. Printed grey wraps uncut. 4to 27cm. pp. iii 332-374 2 blank 10 plates not paginated. Near Fine. Red Museum stamps to lightly soiled cover unread and unopened signatures with overall toning. The Bulletins comprised 55 separate monographs some with multiple parts covered in Twenty volumes from May 1910 to mid-1950's. Milwaukee, WI: Published by Order of the Board of Trustees (Aetna Press), June 15, 1933. paperback
Referência livreiro : OWBDEN115053
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Shapiro Fred C
Whitmore
The Bobbs-Merrill Company New York 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. original price sticker on the front fold over flap. Very slight foxing of the top edge of the dustjacket the book itself is clean and free of any annotation with sound binding. the book by the journalist who established the alibi of the subject for the "career girl murder" in 1963. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. 10 230 4 pages in original hardcover binding. . Please refer to accompanying picture s. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; Anthropology. Inventory No: 0239923. . The Bobbs-Merrill Company hardcover
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Stevens F S Editor
Racism. The Australian Experience. Volume III Colonialism and after
Australia & New Zealand book Company Brookvale New South Wales 1977. Second Edition. Softcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. This work was produced to assist in celebrating the UN International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination in 1970 and has been revised because there had been such a substantial changes in Australia's relations with colonial and formerly Colonial world � including changes of government in Australia and Papua and New Guinea and the arrival of independence in Papua and New Guinea � that the inclusion of additional material in the 2nd edition was warranted. There are a couple of instances of underlining and the spine is fragile. Size: Trade Paperback. Please refer to accompanying picture s. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Anthropology; Politics & Government. ISBN: 0855520450. ISBN/EAN: 9780855520458. Inventory No: 0240106. . 9780855520458 Australia & New Zealand book Company paperback
Referência livreiro : 0240106 ISBN : 0855520450 9780855520458
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Leakey Richard E
The Making of Mankind
Abacus London 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic. 256 pp index glossary list of maps colour photographs black and white and colour sketches black and white photographs. colour illustrated paperback binding very slightly rubbed at the top of the spine section. No other damage to detail." "In this book Richard Leakey has created a lasting record of his compelling TV series The Making Of Mankind. For breathtaking photographs which recall the many places where the series was filmed with maps which pinpoint the exact locations of the various psychological sites this is a unique and fascinating record of the evolution of mankind. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. 256 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture s. Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Anthropology; Archaeology. ISBN: 0349121699. ISBN/EAN: 9780349121697. Inventory No: 0238973. . 9780349121697 Abacus paperback
Referência livreiro : 0238973 ISBN : 0349121699 9780349121697
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The Western Canadian Journal of Anthropology
Volume 1 Number 1 Special Issue: Cree Studies
Edmonton: University of Alberta 1969. Card covers viii 139pp. Fine. 4to soft card cover; includes maps illustrations and black and white photographs; labeled "Office Copy" on back cover. University of Alberta Paperback
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Department of Anthropology University of Manitoba
A Bibliography of Algonquian Linguistics
Winnipeg: Department of Anthropology University of Manitoba 1974. Card covers 85pp. Fine. 4to soft card cover;. University of Manitoba Anthropology Papers Number 11; contributors: David Pentland; C. Douglas Ellis; Carol A. Simpson; H. Christoph Wolfart. Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba Paperback
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Ballif Noel
Dancers Of God
Sidgwick & Jackson London 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: photographic. bound in original blue hardcover binding with silver titles on the spine. Slightly bumped at the top right-hand side of the spine traces of foxing to the top and front edges of the text block previous owner's name stamp on the front free end page. Illustrated with 32 black-and-white plates. Translated from the original French by James Cameron the author spent time visiting the pigmy tribes of French Equatorial Africa and lived among them as their friends. The author was determined to produce a full and detailed record of the lives of this extraordinary race of tough surprisingly friendly little people who survive solely by hunting. Centuries have passed and they have shown no interest whatsoever in becoming herdsman let alone in growing crops. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. 213 3 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture s. Illustrator: photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Category: anthropology; Africa; Inventory No: 0237740. . Sidgwick & Jackson hardcover
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Lambert David
The Cambridge Guide to Prehistoric Man
Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1987. first edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. Foreword by author acknowledgments further reading and index. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white and sepia toned illustrations and photographs. Illustrated cover with red and white titles to the front panel and backstrip. Creasing to the book corners and rubbing to the book edges and book panels. Marks to the book panels and original bookseller sticker still in situ to the lower edge of the rear book panels. Light age toning of the text block edges and of the internal text. "This book is a concise fully illustrated up-two-date survey of human biological and early cultural evolution." -- From the rear panel blurb. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. 11 12-256. Please refer to accompanying picture s. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Anthropology; Archaeology. ISBN: 0521336449. ISBN/EAN: 9780521336444. Inventory No: 0111553. . 9780521336444 Cambridge University Press paperback
Referência livreiro : 0111553 ISBN : 0521336449 9780521336444
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