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African Ecology and Human Evolution
Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1966. Second printing. Dark blue cloth. (x), 666 pp, indexed, charts, one folding chart. Corner clipped from front free endpaper; small tan soil spots to fore edges, soft bruise to fore margin of a few leaves; else a VG clean and tight jacketless copy, no owner names. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required
Condition: Book: Very Good, Binding: Hard Cover
Book ID: 25025More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
AFRICAN EXODUS
Edition: First US printing
New York: Holt, 1997. Octavo, black boards. pp (xxii), 282. Illustrated, notes, index. Fine in fine jacket. Stringer is the primary architect of the Out of Africa model - modern humans emerged from Africa less than 100,000 years ago to replace all other human populations.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45956More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
Prehistory of Western Siberia
Arctic Institute of North America /McGill-Queen's University Press, 1974. Tall octavo, maroon cloth. pp (xxviii), 377 + 2 folding maps at rear; many text illustrations. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has a large skinned spot to upper front panel, VG otherwise. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 35148More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
Recherches sur les conditions anthropologiques de la production scientifique et esthétique : Partie anthropologique de l'économie des travaux scientifiques et esthétiques. Premier fascicule
Saint-Petersbourg: Librairie de la cour impériale, 1865. Octavo. pp (4), xxviii, 104. Thin green paper covers. Covers chipped at margins, chips and old external cellotape repair to spine, but all lettering still present except at upper spine. Neat internal repair to spine and wrapper reattached. Damp and light tan stains throughout. In all, a good unopened copy. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45320More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
Tailed Head-Hunters of Nigeria. An account of an official's seven years' experiences in the northern Nigerian pagan belt, and a description of the manners, habits, and customs of some of its native tribes
London: Seeley, Service & Co. Second edition, with new author Preface (first also 1912). Original terra cotta cloth stamped in gilt and blind. pp xvi, 17-(342 ), (10, ads) + 16 pp publisher's catalogue + 36 illustrations on 30 plates and one folding map at rear; 2 illustrations in text, indexed. Light offset tanning to endpapers, else a fine, bright & tight copy, no flaking to the gilt cover stamping. With nice engraved Canadian West Coast bookplate of Canadian anthropologist T.F. McIlwraith (U of Toronto Prof. of Anthropology, author of The Bella Coola Indians, 1948).
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 30212More details Price: USD $250.00 USD $225.00 -
THE BAN OF THE BORI: Demons and Demon-Dancing in West and North Africa
Edition: First edition.
London: Heath Cranton & Ouseley, no date (1914). Original brown pictorial cloth stamped in black, spine gilt lettered. pp 504 + colour frontispiece with tissue guard and 32 plates containing 60 photos; 47 figures in the text. Spine has minor rubbing at ends, gilt just a little dulled; tissue guard browned; cracked rear inner hinge neatly repaired; slight foxing to top page edges; else a near fine, clean, bright and unworn copy. With nice engraved Canadian West Coast bookplate of Canadian anthropologist T.F. McIlwraith (U of Toronto Professor of Anthropology and author of The Bella Coola Indians, 1948), and one of his folded examination questions from 1951 (U of Toronto) laid in.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 30215More details Price: USD $250.00 USD $225.00 -
THE CENTRAL ESKIMO
Toronto: Coles Publishing Company, 1974. Facsimile reprint of the Washington, 1888, edition. Octavo, maroon cloth. pp [2], (2), 401-675 + 2 folding maps in pouch at rear. Many illustrations in text, index. Fine copy. Jacket has some quite minor rubbing, else fine. "This study of the Eskimos on Baffin Island in the vicinity of Cumberland Sound and Davis Strait was Boas' first venture into social science, was the first ethnographical monograph ever published as a professional study, and was one of the first studies of the Eskimo ever made." - jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42318More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CLOTHES
London: Hogarth Press / Institure of Psycho-Analysis, 1940. Second printing (first was in 1930). International Psycho-Analytical Library Series, No. 18. Green cloth. pp 257, [3] + plates. Index. Just a little leaned; 1943 ink name at front; yellowing to page edges and front endpapers; a few stray short pencil ticks in text margins, easily erasable; else a VG clean and unworn jacketless copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51885More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London. Vol. V. New Series
Edition: First edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48485More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50