HOLMSEN, SVERRE & BULMAN, JOAN (Trans) & WOODHALL, DOUGLAS (Decorations)

Super octavo, orange buckram boards, black lettering to spine, 292pp, illus, VG (spine cocked, minor bruising & rubbing/fading to spine & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, minro tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges- minor loss to spine extrems, moderate fading to spine & edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling, prev. bookseller's sm label to front flap)

PUBLISHER: James Barrie 1951

KEYWORDS: exploration anthropology polynesia polynesian people history Pacific islands culture customs

MELE, PIETRO FRANCESCO (Photo & Text) & DAINELLI, GIOTTO (Intro)

FIRST EDITION, quarto, cream stiff card covers, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG (minor bruising to edges, light tanning & foxing to spine & cover edges, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges, moderate to heavy foxing to prelims & terminals, gift inscription in ink to prelims, light foxing throughout) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to spine & edges, heavy tanning to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1957

KEYWORDS: travel writing photography anthropology Tibet culture

TE-K'UN, CHENG

Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: W Heffer & Sons / University of Toronto Press 1966

KEYWORDS: ancient history antiquity China Chinese archeology archaeology prehistoric excavations anthropology

KUPER, HILDA

Octavo softcover (VG) some pen underlining; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1966

KEYWORDS: anthropology South Africa swazi customs culture history

MEAD, MARGARET & MACGREGOR, FRANCES COOKE & BATESON, GREGORY (Based on Photos of)

FIRST EDITION, quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (G-) jacket very scruffy/tatty- torn in two; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: G P Putnam's Sons 1951

KEYWORDS: anthropology culture childhood Bali Balinese photos photography children Gregory Bateson first editions

KEEN, GRAHAME & FRIEDLANDER, MARTI (Photos)

Imperial octavo stapled light card covers (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: A R Shearer, Gov't Printer 1976

KEYWORDS: school bulletins education Atoll pacific islands Fakaofo anthropology customs culture

HALEVY, ELIE

3 VOL SET, paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Pelican 1937-38

KEYWORDS: England English people history anthropology culture customs politics economy economics religion

FLANNERY, Dr TIMOTHY FRIDTJOF

SIGNED, DATED & INSCRIBED, super octavo hardcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Reed New Holland 2001

KEYWORDS: ecology history Australia Australasian anthropology natural history signed

HRDLICKA, ALES

FROM THE LIBRARY OF NZ PARLIAMENT, ATTRACTIVELY BOUND, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, blind rule to board edges, top page edges stained grey, 113pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light rubbing & bruising to extrems, sl chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, ex-libris General Assembly plate to front pastedown, occasional minor carcking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Washington Government Printing Office 1907

KEYWORDS: archeology archaeology skeletons bones ancient history ethnology anthropology North America human homosapiens

SWANTON, JOHN R

FROM THE LIBRARY OF NZ PARLIAMENT, ATTRACTIVELY BOUND, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, folding map frontispiece, vii + 387pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light rubbing & bruising to extrems, light chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, minor surface loss patch to front pastedown, minor smudging of red ink to folding map/frontis, occasional minor cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Washington Government Printing Office 1911

KEYWORDS: ancient history North America American indian tribes ethnology anthropology lower Mississippi valley Gulf of Mexico archeology archaeology

BEST, ELSDON

Super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp profile/portrait to front board, xv + 459pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light chafing & soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light foxing to rear eps & terminals)

PUBLISHER: A R Shearer, Gov't Printer 1975

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Maori culture villages anthropology pre-European pre-colonial Elsdon Best

SLOTERDIJK, PETER

Text in French. Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Libella 2011

KEYWORDS: French anthropology

BERDYAEV, NICOLAS

Super octavo hardcover (VG), in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Bles 1959

KEYWORDS: philosophy ethics morals anthropology

JACKSON, MICHAEL

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Smithsonian 1986

KEYWORDS: anthropology cheifdom Sierra Leone Africa social history

STEELE, JAMES (Ed) & SHENNAN, STEPHEN (Ed)

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xxiii + 446pp, VG+ (light creasing/curling to cover edges, occasional creasing to lower page edges, some prelim pgs sl detached at gutter- still a very tidy copy)

PUBLISHER: Routledge 2012

KEYWORDS: anthropology ancient history archeology archaeology socioecology hominids humans

MEAD, MARGARET & CAFFREY, MARGARET M. (edit) & FRANCIS, PATRICIA A. (edit) & BATESON, MARY CATHERINE (foreword)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo hardcover (NR FINE) in d/w (VG+): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Basic Books 2006

KEYWORDS: letter margaret mead anthropology feminist history memoir personal writing first edition modern first

ERKSINE, MRS. STEUART & FLETCHER, MAJ. BENTON

Octavo hardcover (VG-): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co n/d

KEYWORDS: arabia arab history colonial egypt near east middle east far east greece hellenistic anthropology archaeology

GAMBLE, CLIVE

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Alan Sutton Publishing 1993

KEYWORDS: ancient prehistoric history anthropology geography

HEYERDAHL, THOR

Super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company 1997

KEYWORDS: travel literature writing journals diaries exploration Pacific islands biologists Thor Heyerdahl autobiography autobiographies memoir anthropology

THOMAS, NICHOLAS

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1989

KEYWORDS: history anthropology evolution ethnography