Search Results: new lives for old cultural transformations manus by mead margaret

New York: William Morrow, 1956. 548 pages. Illustrated with b/w photos. Appendices and selected bibliography included.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

NY: Morrow, 1956. First edn. 8vo, pp. 548. VG in dj (title-page and facing page browned from an old news clipping) OP. Mead shows the transformation of the Manus brought on by WWII.

William Morris Society, 1956. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. Slightly smaller but thicker book, shiny black cloth, 548 lightly browned pages, photo section. DJ colorfully designed in yellow, green and black on front and spine, two small b/w photos on back, white back is very slightly and uniformly browned. DJ has light wear to bottom front tip and long spine right edge, light crease at top front edge, very slight surface wear to spine bottom right edge, three microtears at top back edge. Very Good DJ/Very Fine book.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1956. xxi, 548pp, index, references, appendices, notes, bw ills, map. Or green cloth in jacket. Jacket price clipped, spine toned and with spotty foxing. Some foxing to endpapers and page edges. The Manus of Papua New Guinea from stone-age to air age in the space of 25 years.. First UK Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/New. 8vo.

London : Gollancz, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Minor library marks remain. Physical description; xxi, 548p, 16 plates : ill., maps ; 23cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references, p529-532; index. Subjects; Manus tribe. Acculturation.

London: Gollancz, 1956. Book. Illus. by Photographs. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Green cloth, gilt titles to the spine. The spine is slightly faded. The DJ is unclipped, protected, excellent condition with a dulled spine. A little shelwear otherwise an excellent copy of this important book.Return to Manus after 25 years to find it threatened by a volcanic eruption; description of the changes that have taken place in the culture and the implications for the future. 548pp., 16 plates. 2 maps, 1 figure, 4 appendices, bibliography, index.