Khmer Gold: Gifts for the Gods
Chicago: Art Media Resources, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to, 147pp. Fine copy in dust jacket, as new. More
Anthropology
The Rhythm of the Redman In Song, Dance and Decoration
New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1930. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, 280pp. Teal coloured cloth with orange lettering and design to the front board. Light bumping to the corners and light wear to the cloth along the bottom edges, ink name to the front endpaper, book clean throughout and the..... More
Ethology and Society
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Navy cloth, gilt lettering to spine, no dust jacket. Spine ends very lightly bumped, with a neat ink name to the front endpaper, else a clean and tight copy. More
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Novato, CA: New World Library, 2008. Hardcover. 8vo. Third edition with revisions. Boillingen Series XVII. Spine ends lightly bumped and the boards with minute scuffs, else a fine and bright copy in a fine dust jacket. More
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada. In 4 Volumes.
Ottawa: The Royal Canadian Geographic Society, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. 4 large format (4to) hardcover volumes housed in a slipcase. Metis, First Nations, Indigenous Canada, Inuit. All in fine condition, about as new, in a fine slipcase. More
Big Men and Cargo Cults
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo. 187 pp. Nacy cloth with gilt lettering, in dust jacket. Neat ink name to the front endpaper, else a clean and tight copy. Dust jacket a little scuffed, small scratch to the spine, with a small paper tape repair to the inside of the..... More
African Civilizations An Archaeological Perspective
Cambridge University Press, 2001. Softcover. Second edition. Softcover. Nice clean copy in a tight and square binding. More
Indonesian Art; Treasures of the National Museum, Jakarta
Singapore: Periplus Publishing (HK), 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall 4to. Black boards with gilt titles, light bumping to the spine ends, else a fine and clean copy in a near fine dust jacket. More
Shamanism. Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
New York: Pantheon Books/ Bollingen, 1964. Hardcover. 8vo. 610p. Ink name to front endpaper and some ink to p. 380 and p.469. Dust jacket clean and bright, with light nicks to the edges an corners, sunned spine and a small hole near the middle. More
The Position of Women in Primitive Societies & Other Essays in Social Anthropology
London: Faber, 1966. Hardcover. Second impression. 8vo. 260pp. Orange cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. Hard bump to the head of the spine and light bump to the foot, neat ink name to front endpaper, else clean and unmarked in a price clipped dust jacket with a few light nicks..... More
The Zande Trickster
Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Cloth boards with gilt lettering, in a price clipped dust jacket. Ink name and Oxford University Press ink stamp to the front endpaper, dust jackjet spine sunned, with one piece of paper tape to the inside of the jacket at..... More
Islamic Society and the West. Islamic Society in the Eighteenth Century. Volume 1, Part I & II.
Oxford University Press, 1950. Hardcover. 2 volumes. The first volume is a first printing, the second volume is a reprint. Red cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, corners lightly bumped, ink name to front endpapers and a blank bookplate to the pastedown of volume I. Books clean and tight throughout..... More
The Language of the Goddess
New York: Harper & Row, 1989. Hardcover. 4to, 388pp. Second edition. Book and jacket just a little rubbed at the edges but overall a very good copy. More
Dissertation on the Gipsies, Being an Historical Enquiry, Concerning the Manner of Life, Economy, Customs and Conditions of These People in Europe, and Their Origin
London: G. Bigg, 1787. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition in English. 4to. [8], xix, 255pp., [1]- errata. Without half-title. Half modern brown calf with red leather gilt title label over marbled boards. Heavily rubbed and worn marbled boards, with some restoration, light foxing to endpapers, sporadic foxing, with neat repairs..... More
The Konso of Ethiopia. A Study of the Values of a Cushitic People
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First printing. Navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Neat ink name to the front endpaper, else clean and unmarked in a tight and square binding. Clean and near fine copy in like dust jacket. Illustrated with black and white photographs and..... More
The California Indians. A Source Book
Berkeley: Universoity of California Press, 1960. Hardcover. 8vo. Third printing. Orange cloth with black lettering. Light rubbing to the edges of boards, the dust jacket with wear to the edges and a large chip and stain to the spine head, else a good clean copy. More
A History of the Kingdom of Nkore in Western Uganda to 1896. (Oxford Studies in African Affairs)
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First printing. Navy cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Two neat ink names and initials to the front endpaper, dust jacket price clipped. Clean and tight copy. Oxford Studies in African Affairs. More
Early Kingdoms in Madagascar 1500-1700
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo. 336pp. Light brown boards with gilt lettering, in dust jacket. Small bump to the spine head corner and a neat ink name to the front endpaper, else a clean and unmarked copy in a near fine dust jacket. More
Solitary Sex. A Cultural History of Masturbation
New York: Zone Books, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth, gilt spine lettering. Previous owner's ink name to the verso of the half-title, else a clean and unmarked copy, in a fine dust jacket. More
The Way of the Masks
Toronto: Douglas and McIntyre, 1982. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine copy, dust jacket a touch rubbed at the tips, else clean and unworn. More
Introduction to a Science of Mythology. In 4 Volumes.
London: Johnathan Cape, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First British edition. 1970; 1973; 1978; 1981. Volume 1 with price clipped dust jacket and previous owner's name to front endpaper, jackets with very light edge-wear but overall a nice clean set. More
The Ghostland People: A Documentary History of the Queen Charlotte Islands, 1859-1906 (WEST COAST HERITAGE SERIES)
Victoria: Sono Nis Press, 1989. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt spine lettering, light rubbiong to the spine ends, else a clean and tight copy in a very good dust jacket. More
Warriors of the North Pacific
Victoria: Sono Nis Press, 1984. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Light rubbing to the tips and spine ends, else a fine copy in a very good dust jacket. More
Life in the Pacific of the 1700s: The Cook/Forster Collection of the Georg August University of Gottingen (3 Volumes in Slipcase)
Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. 3 volumes in quarter orange cloth lettered in gilt, over patterned paper boards, housed in a slipcase. In fine condition, unread and as new. Lovely production, full of colour illustrations. More
Canadian Savage Folk: The Native Tribes of Canada
Toronto: William Briggs, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Signed. 8vo. 641pp. Gilt lettered and decorated brown cloth with black illustration on the front panel. Paper over hinges repaired, paper repair to edge of frontis portrait of the author, cloth repairs and touch-ups at the spine ends and board corners, rear..... More