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The Lost Tribe - A Harrowing Passage into New Guinea's Heart of Darkness

By: Marriott, Edward

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt & Co: 1997

Seller ID: 018409

ISBN: 0805053182

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Stated First American Edition, with full number line on copyright page. Very clean yellow/tan boards with clean unfaded maroon spine, unchipped gold lettering on spine. Very small shallow bump to front board edge, otherwise without wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 258 pp. Clean dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Edward Marriott's search for the lost tribe of the Liawep living deep in the jungle in far northwest Papua New Guinea.
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The Big Canoe

By: Mayol, Lurline Bowles

Price: $22.00

Publisher: New York / London, D. Appleton-Century Company: 1933

Seller ID: 026642

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Stated First Printing, illustrated by W. Langdon Kihn. Clean green cloth boards with dark blue decoration (initials WLK at base of drawing) on cover, dark blue lettering on spine. No fraying, very light surface wear to corners. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Clean, beautifully decorated endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. Foreword by the author. 257 pages with glossary. The history of the Haida indian tribe, true Vikings of the Pacific who had no tepees, no peace-pipes, no horses, and no feather head-dresses. In their villages were well-built plank...
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New Lives for Old - Cultural Transformation - Manus, 1928-1953

By: Mead, Margaret

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: 1956

Seller ID: 018726

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition, in original unclipped jacket. Clean black cloth boards with bright white lettering on spine. No bumping or wear; binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean (slight yellowing). Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 548 pgs. with index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped (6.75 on front inside flap), unchipped, with a few very tiny closed edge tears, hint of wear at top spine edge. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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An Anthropologist at Work - Writings of Ruth Benedict

By: Mead, Margaret

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1959

Seller ID: 018739

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

"First Printing" stated on copyright page, 1959 on title page, in unclipped original jacket. Clean unfaded gray boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. Hint of light surface wear to corners, no bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean (very slightly yellowed), clean yellow top-stained page edges. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 583 pgs. with index. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped (6.00 on front inside flap), has shallow chip at top spine edge (1/4" depth), light rubbing. Photo of author Margaret Mead and photo of Ruth...
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Our Primitive Contemporaries

By: Murdock, George Peter

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, MacMillan: 1963

Seller ID: 001662

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

614 pgs. Very Good - Red cloth board with black & gold title box, gold lettering. Exceptionally clean & tight. Occasional underlining and notations alongside text. Owner's name inside. Slight speckling on top edges, other edges bright and clean, cover very clean. Color and black & white photos & illustrations. Chapters on the Tasmanians, Kazaks, Eskimos, Iroquois, Hopi,Samoans, Hottentots, and many more primitive peoples. Decorated endpapers. 8vo. Anthropology.
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Woman in the Sexual Relation

By: Ploss, Herman Heinrich; Bartels, Max; Bartels, Paul

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Medical Press of New York: 1964

Seller ID: 014375

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Very clean light reddish brown cloth boards with black lettering on spine and tasteful black outlined image of naked woman standing with folded hands stretching overhead. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages, edges and endpapers are clean and bright; clean endpapers with no writing or marks. Many black and white illustrations and photographs from many different cultures. Revised and Enlarged by Ferd. F. von Reitzenstein. 152 pgs. Dustjacket is very lightly soiled, not price clipped and has two small 3/4" chips and a few tiny closed tears. Jacket designe...
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Asian Women and Eros

By: Pommerenke, Millicent

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Vantage Press: 1958

Seller ID: 019429

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

"First Edition" stated on copyright page, association copy inscribed and SIGNED by author, in original unclipped jacket. Clean yellow cloth boards with black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Inscribed and signed by author: "To Jean, with all my best wishes and affectionate love, Aunty "Bobbie" Millicent Pommerenke - Aug. 26th, 1958." 337 pp. with bibliography. Forword by Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, Dean, College of Medicine, Ohio State University. Jacket is not price clipped (3.95 on front insi...
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Nunaga: Ten Years of Eskimo Life

By: Pryde, Duncan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Walker & Co.: 1972

Seller ID: 010266

ISBN: 0-8027-0369-0

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near FIne

Clean gray-green cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or marks. Clean maps on endpapers. Illustrated with color photographs. 285 pgs. Clean dustjacket is unchipped, not price clipped, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Author's discovery of a remote and primitive way of life to which, asstonishingly, he found that he easily adapted. One of his first posts was isolated Perry Island, then a refuge of fugitives from the law, where most of the mal...
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The Island of the Colorblind

By: Sacks, Oliver

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1997

Seller ID: 029074

ISBN: 0679451145

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Stated First Edition in clean unchipped dust jacket. Very clean cream boards with unfaded black cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean map-illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. 298 pages with index. Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears, very small surface scrape at upper right corner of front panel from sticker removal (barely noticeable) - enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Drawn to the tiny Pacific atoll of Pingelap by intriguing reports of an isolated comm...
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On the Antiquity of Intellectual Man, From A Practical and Astronomical Point of View

By: Smyth, C. Piazzi

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas: 1868

Seller ID: 024547

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition, complete with errata slip. Clean blue boards with gold decoration and lettering on cover, gold lettering on spine. Slight darkening to spine. Small spots of wear-through to cloth at spine ends. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with gilt top edges. Clean chocolate brown endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. Frontispiece "Chronological Chart of still existing early contemporary architectural testimony" with clean tissue guard. Preface by the author, followed by errata slip. 512 pages with index + 3 page promotion of same a...
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Koster: Americans in Search of Their Prehistoric Past

By: Struever, Stuart & Felicia Antonelli Holton

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Garden City, Anchor Press/Doubleday: 1979

Seller ID: 009650

ISBN: 0-385-00406-0

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Very clean brown cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or bookplates. Color illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with maps, photos and diagrams in full color and black & white. 281 pgs. with index. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, has a few very short closed edge tears (one small piece of clear tape over 1/2" edge tear). Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. "In an Illinois cornfield, a leading "new" archaeologist has found a 9,500 year-...
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Warrior Herdsmen

By: Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1965

Seller ID: 010790

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Very clean blue cloth boards with bright gold title box and author lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Previous owner name neatly penned on front free endpaper. 254 pgs. Illustrated with photographs, diagrams, map. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, with a few tiny closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. The absorbing chronicle of an expedition to the tribesmen of northern Uganda.
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Wisdomkeepers: Meetings With Native American Spiritual Elders (The Earthsong Collection)

By: Wall, Steve and Harvey Arden

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Beyond Words Publishing: 1990

Seller ID: 027708

ISBN: 0941831558

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

As new condition - clean hardcover book in clean unchipped original dust jacket. Green boards with green cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean and bright with clean illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. 128 pages. Clean dust jacket is unfaded, no chips, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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The Mummy - A History of the Extraordinary Practices of Ancient Egypt

By: Wallis, E.A.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Bell Publishing: 1989

Seller ID: 025566

ISBN: 0517675803

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Reprint with new Foreword by B. L Masterson, in clean unchipped dust jacket. Unfaded black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers. Illustrated with 90 black and white line drawings. 404 pages with index. Dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, is enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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Lost Tribes & Sunken Continents: Myth and Method in the Study of American Indians

By: Wauchope, Robert

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 1962

Seller ID: 028583

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Second Impression (so stated) in unclipped original dust jacket. Clean beige cloth boards with purple decoration on cover, purple lettering on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean; previous owner name neatly ink-stamped at top edge of front free endpaper, attractive bookplate on back of front free endpaper. Illustrated with drawings and photo plates. 155 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped, has some edge wear and a short closed tear near spine edge. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. This ente...
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Category: Anthropology