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Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1887 - 88 by Powell, J.W - 1892
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Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1892. Hard Cover. Very Good /Native Americans. An annual report on the finds of ethnologist and sociologist in 19th c. North America. Includes "The Medicine-Men of the Apache" by John G. Bourke and "Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition" by John Murdoch, which details the culture, weapons, clothing, tools and government of native Americans in northwest Alaska. Contains 8 plate illustrations and 448 figure drawings of various Native American artifacts, toys and weapons. Binding is olive green cloth with gilt decoration on front board and gilt lettering on spine. Lightly bumped corners; some rubbing; fraying on spine ends; library emblems and plate inside front cover, with markings on spine. 617 pp, including index; a very good, tight copy. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Native Americans; Inventory No: 015183.
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The Urban World
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New Methods for Old-Age Research
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Chicago: Center for Urban Policy/Loyola University, 1980. First Edition, first printing. Original edition, precedes the 1986 reprint. Printed wrappers. Published Chicago: Center for Urban Policy/Loyola University, 1980. 8vo., v+222 pp. Plain cream wrappers with front printed in brown. A near fine copy.. 1st. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo..
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Encyclopædia Mundarica. 16 Volumes.
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The Tshi-speaking peoples of the Gold Coast of West Africa. Their religion, manners, customs, laws, language, Etc.
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First edition. Chapman and Hall. London. 1887. 8vo. vii, 343pp. 16pp publisher's catalogue dated 1893. Frontispiece map. Musical notation p328-330. Original cloth, gilt, blind stamped decoration to covers. Floral endpapers. Hinges a little tender. Some light spotting to prelims and catalogue. Light edge wear and fraying to head of spine. Signature dated 1909 to half title. Alfred Burdon Ellis (1852 – 1894) British Army officer and ethnographer.
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Lenguas Indigenas De Colombia: Una Vision Descriptiva
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VINTONS AND THE KARENS. Memorials of Rev. Justus H. Vinton and Calista H. Vinton, The.
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Boston: W. G. Corthell (Rand Avery & Co.), 1880. Illustrated by Double port tissue frontis, one music notation and 9 b&w plates. First edition. Original decorated green cloth with gilt stamped spine, floral endpapers. 12mo. pp. 252, [2] blank. Very Good. Cap and corner wear, slight cock. Intriguing Baptist Missionary work of Justus Hatch Vinton (1806-58) and Calista Holman Vinton (1807-64) among the Karen People in Burmah. Laid in is a crumpled period marking ribbon and folded (22.5x13cm) broadside: Cutler, Rev. Theo. L. "Happy New Year!", No. 13. New York: National Temperance Society. Scarce..
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Pictographs of the Interior of British Columbia
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Vernon: Author ( Printed By Wayside Press, Vernon, 1968. Book. Very Good. Card Covers. First Printing of the First Edition. About fine but for rubbing to extremities, folds, and cove,. trace of erased name on ffep., and minor dampstain and wrinkling through toe corner. Signed by Corner on the title page. This book has becme quite uncommon..
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Mexican Masks
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University Of Texas Press, Austin, 1980; First Edition; 4to, 280 pages; illustrated. Exhaustive study of Mexican mask-making and use, detailing materials used, regional differences, and symbolic and social functions. Hundreds of color photographs by the author, each accompanied by full descriptive data. Fine, in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket. Clean, crisp, bright, and sharp.
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The Tshi-speaking peoples of the Gold Coast of West Africa. Their religion, manners, customs, laws, language, Etc.
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First edition. Chapman and Hall. London. 1887. 8vo. vii, 343pp. 16pp publisher's catalogue dated 1893. Frontispiece map. Musical notation p328-330. Original cloth, gilt, blind stamped decoration to covers. Floral endpapers. Hinges a little tender. Some light spotting to prelims and catalogue. Light edge wear and fraying to head of spine. Signature dated 1909 to half title. Alfred Burdon Ellis (1852 – 1894) British Army officer and ethnographer.
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Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1887 - '88
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Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. Very Good-. 1892. Hardcover. Light wear at spine ends and corners. Internally very good -- clean and tight. ; 4to 11" to 13" tall; 617 pages .
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Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1887 - '88
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Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1887 - '88
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The Racial Analysis of Human Populations in Relation to Their Ethnogenesis and Some Possibilities for Estimating Inter-Population Relationship on the Basis of Continuous Traits in Current Anthropology Volume 3, Number 1
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51 volumes complete with diagrams, illustrations, plates, maps, figures, indexes. Quarto (10 1/4" x 8 1/2") issued in wrappers. Some reprints, most first editions.Current Anthropology, whose first issue was launched in 1959, is one of the discipline's oldest and most distinguished journals, and has been sponsored since its founding by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The journal was the first of its kind, championing an interdisciplinary approach alongside a commitment to international dialogue, while fostering a community of international scholars. It became known for its innovative format that combined major research papers with responses solicited from the field. The format, now known as the "CA treatment" was unique in its time and was copied by other journals such as Behavioral and Brain Sciences. While the journal has changed over the years, its original principles are still clearly present and can be traced back to the unique collaboration between the Foundation, led by Paul Fejos,and the…
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xxii+163 pages with photographs, charts, tables, graphs and bibliographies. Quarto (11 1/4" x 8 1/2") issued in brown cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Forward by Jeffrey Bortz. Statistical Abstract of Latin America Supplement Series, Supplement 10. First edition.Contents: the Six Ideological Phases of Mexico's "Permanent Revolution" since 1910 by James W Wilkie; The Development of Engineering Expertise for Social and Economic Modernization in Mexico since 1929 by David E Lorey; The Class Structure of Mexico, 1895-1980 by Stephanie Granato and Aida Mostkoff; Complexities of Measuring the Food Situation in Mexico: Supply versus Self-Sufficiency of Basic Grains, 1935-82 by James W Wilkie; The Dramatic Growth of Mexico's Economy and the Rise of Statist Government Budgetary Power, 1919-82 by James W Wilkie.Condition:Corners bumped else a better than very good copy.
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Peldanos en la Conciencia: Restros en la Plastica Prehispanica
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Red Pottage
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Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.
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The Sky and the Forest
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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The Spirit of Ancient Peru: Treasures from the Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
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London: Thames and Hudson, 1998 216 pages with plates, diagrams, maps, illustrations, bibliography and index. Quarto (11 1/4" x 9") issued in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine decorative vignette to front cover. Preface by Isabel Larco de Alvarez-Calderon. Foreword by Harry S Parker. 1st edition. Contents: The Spirit of Rafael Larco Hoyle: An Introduction by Kathleen Berrin; Rafael Larco Hoyle (1901-1966) by Clifford Evans; Life and Afterlife in Pre-Hispanic Pru: Contextualizing the masterworks of the Museo of Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera by Richard L Burger; The Coastal Islands of Peru: Myths and Natural Resources by Maria Rostworowski de Diez Canseco; Moche Art: Myth, History and Rite by Elizabeth P Benson; Deer Hunting and Combat: Parallel Activities in the Moche World by Christopher B Donnan; Andean Aesthetics by Esther Paztory; Catalogue of Objects by Elizabeth P Benson, Susan E Bergh, Richard L Burger, Heidi King and Joanne Pillsbury. Condition: Jacket price clipped, small chip at…
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The People Called Apache
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447 pages with maps, 16 color plates, over 300 black and white photographs, and over 200 drawings, bibliography and index. Folio (12 3/4" x 9 1/4") bound in original publisher's dark brown cloth with black lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Drawings by Thomas Mails. First edition. They called themselves The People, but to nearly everyone else in their world they were known as The Enemy. And they earned the name in every respect. Seldom has any people fought harder for the preservation of their territory and their way of life. We know them today as the Apache, an ancient people who, in historic times, made a prolonged and desperate effort to drive the Spanish, the Mexicans and finally the Anglo-Americans out of their ancestral lands. Unsuccessful, they were placed in four reservations, on or near their original ranges in Arizona and New Mexico, some of the most ruggedly beautiful land in this country. There most of them still live, accepting the White ways yet keeping many of the old…
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"Ecstatic renovation!" : Street Art Celebrating Sierra Leone's 1992 Revolution
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RARE! Freetown: Sierra Leone Adult Education Association, January 1994. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. Fine. Interior pristine. Securely bound with two clean staples. Rubbing to covers. 39 pages.
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Samuel The Seeker
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Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.
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