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$24.50
2f35/15

Pigs, Pearlshells and Women: Marriage in the New Guinea Highlands


GLASSE, R.M. & MEGGITT, M.J. (eds)

octavo, illus light card covers, vii + 246pp, VG (light wear and fading, creasing to fep)

PUBLISHER: Prentice-Hall 1969

KEYWORDS: r.m. glasse m.g. meggit history anthropology sociology marriage papua new guinea

$8.50
xxkif52605

Doc The Rape of the Town of Lovell


OLSEN, JACK

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Dell 1990

KEYWORDS: jack olsen true crime lovell history journalism specials

$8.50
xxkig52627

After Nostradamus: Great Prophecies for the Future of Mankind


WOLDBEN, A.

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Granada 1980

KEYWORDS: a. woldben nostradamus history prophecies specials

$16.00
xxkig52628

The Legacy of the Ancient World


DE BURGH, W.G.

two volume 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1953

KEYWORDS: w.g. de burgh history ancient world classics rome greece israel specials

$16.50
xxkig52636

Building Social Capital in Thailand: Fibers, Finance, and Infrastructure


UNGER, DANNY

softcover octavo (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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1998

KEYWORDS: danny unger economics thailand history infrastructure social capital sociology specials

$15.00
xxkig52643

Tradition and Transition in East Africa: Studies of the Tribal Element in the Modern Era


GULLIVER, P.H. (ed)

ex-library, hardcover octavo (VG) 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1969

KEYWORDS: p.h. gulliver east africa history sociology anthropology specials

$15.00
xxkig52646

Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier: Exploring Governance in a Turbulent World


ROSENAU, JAMES N.

softcover octavo (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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: james n. rosenau politics history government international relations specials

$26.50
2f35/19

A Kind of Mending: Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands


with Anita Jowitt and Tess Newton Cain

DINNEN, SINCLAIR (ed)

octavo, illus light card covers, xii + 309pp, VG+ (light wear and creasing to covers)

PUBLISHER: Pandanus Books 2003

KEYWORDS: pacific history sinclair dinnen justice politics

$37.50
2f35/21

The Ancien Regime: A History of France 1610-1774


translated by Mark Greengrass

LADURIE, EMMANUEL LE ROY

super octavo, illus light card covers, vii + 586pp, illus, VG+ (light wear and fading to covers)

PUBLISHER: Blackwell Publishers 1998

KEYWORDS: emmanuel le roy ladurie mark greengrass french history france politics the ancien regime

$27.50
2f35/22

Empire & Emancipation: Power and Liberation on a World Scale


PIETERSE, JAN P. NEDERVEEN

octavo, illus light card covers, xvi + 421pp, VG+ (light wear and rubbing, sticker residue to front cover)

PUBLISHER: Pluto Press 1990

KEYWORDS: jan p. nederveen pieterse empire power politics sociology capitalism economics marxism socialism history imperialism

$45.00
2f35/26

Building a Modern Financial System: The Indonesian Experience


COLE, DAVID C. & SLADE, BETTY F.

octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xxvii + 379pp, near fine in VG+ d/w (light wear and rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1996

KEYWORDS: david c. cole betty f. slade development financial system government politics economics indonesia history

$26.50
2f35/30

Culture, Kastom, Tradition: Developing Cultural Policy in Melanesia


LINDSTROM, LAMONT & WHITE, GEOFFREY M. (eds)

first edition, octavo, illus light card covers, xx + 297pp, illus, VG (light wear, light soiling to rear cover, v light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of the South Pacific 1994

KEYWORDS: lamont lindstrom geoffrey m. white history cultural policy politics anthropology sociology melanesia pacific islands

$365.00
2f35/33

Germany Scenery from Drawings made in 1820 by Captain Batty of the Grenadier Guards


BATTY, Captain

volume two only, text in English and French, correction of last plate description (states Vienna from Dobling, changed by hand to Vienna from the Palace of Belvedore), no title page, quarto, brown leather boards with gilt rule and five raised bands to spine, gilt lettering and rule to front board, gilt page edges, marbled eps, frontispiece, unpaginated, illus with 31 lithographic full-page plates, VG (rubbing and bruising to extremities, some small white spots to front board, light scratching to boards, small indentation to rear board, some pencil markings to prelims, some foxing esp. to tissue and page edges, small hole to one layer of tissue), in presentation a tidier copy than our description suggests

PUBLISHER: Rodwell and Martin 1823

KEYWORDS: captain batty of the grenadier guards arts history germany drawing french languages

$65.00
2f35/34

Martirologio Milanese


introduzione di Gianfranco Ravasi

NAVONI, MARCO & PASINI, CESARE

text in Italian, imperial octavo, maroon heavy card boards with maroon cloth to spine, gilt lettering and decoration to front board and spine, 81pp + unpaginated index, illus, near fine in VG d/w (light wear and soiling)

PUBLISHER: Credito Artigiano 1996

KEYWORDS: marco navoni cesare pasini gianfranco ravasi arts milane martyrdom italian languages history

$50.00
2f35/36

At the Tail of the Weir


CHALMERS, PATRICK R.

first edition, orange cloth boards with black lettering to spine, xii + 277pp, illus, VG- (wear to extremities including small closed tears to head and tail of spine, fraying to corners, water damage to upper edge of boards and four small holes to boards, ink owner's name to fep, light tanning and foxing, upper edges of pages damaged and partially eaten away with no loss to text)

PUBLISHER: Philip Allan 1932

KEYWORDS: patrick r. chalmers sport fishing angling poetry literature history first edition

$22.00
2f35/37

Guide Book to New Zealand Commercial Fish Species (new revised edition)


ARMITAGE, R.O. et al (eds)

octavo, blue cloth boards with silver lettering to front board and spine, silver illus to front board, illus fep, 216pp, illus, near fine in VG+ d/w (light wear and fading)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Fishing Industry Board 1990

KEYWORDS: new zealand natural history fish commercial fish species fisheries

$17.50
xxkja52678

The Development of the Modern State: A Sociological Introduction


POGGI, GIANFRANCO

softcover octavo (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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 1978

KEYWORDS: gianfranco poggi sociology politics political philosophy history specials

$15.00
xxkja52679

Custom and Conflict in Africa


GLUCKMAN, MAX

softcover octavo (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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell 1982

KEYWORDS: max gluckman social anthropology sociology history africa politics specials

$18.50
xxkja52682

Sumatran Politics and Poetics: Gayo History, 1900-1989


BOWEN, JOHN R.

hardcover octavo (VG+) 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1991

KEYWORDS: john r. bowen sumatran politics poetics gayo history sumatra social anthropology sociology linguistics literature poetry languages specials

$20.00
xxkja52686

The City Without Walls: An Anthology setting forth the Drama of Human Life


OSGOOD, MARGARET CUSHING (ed)

ex-library, hardcover octavo (VG) lacks d/w; 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1933

KEYWORDS: margaret cushing osgood literature short stories religion history anthology specials

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