Anthropology from Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

[Helsinki, Finland]: Museovirasto, [2006]., [2006].. Fine. - Tall octavo [11-3/4 inches high by 6-5/8 inches wide], softcover bound in color pictorial wraps. 96 pages. Profuse color illustrations. Fine. The history and collections of a Finnish ethnological museum.Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title which opened at the museum in November 2004.

Flushing, NY: October 24, 1950., 1950.. Good. - 566 words typed on an eleven inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide sheet of Queens College letterhead. Signed "Hortense Powdermaker " with her name and "Chairman Department of Anthropology-Sociology" typed below the signature. There is light creasing to the top & bottom edges of the letter with a paperclip mark… Read more about this item

Canada: National Museum of Canada, 1938., 1938.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in cream-colored printed wraps. 10 pages. Black-and-white illustrations, including a map showing the territory of the tribes. Very good. National Museum of Canada's guide to the Anthropological Exhibits. Leaflet 4, 1938."There were five tribes on the plains in the eighteenth century, the Blackfoot, Assiniboine, Sarcee,… Read more about this item

Canada: National Museum of Canada, 1938., 1938.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in cream-colored printed wraps. The top 2-1/2 inches of he wraps are detached & their top corners are lightly creased. There is a tiny chip to the front edge of the front wrap. 6 pages. Black-and-white illustrations, including a map showing the territory of the… Read more about this item

Canada: National Museum of Canada, 1938., 1938.. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in cream-colored printed wraps. There are a few marks & small light stains to the wraps. The top 1-1/2 inches & the bottom 1/2 inch of each wrap is detached. 8 pages. Black-and-white illustrations, including a map showing the territories of the tribes. Good. National Museum… Read more about this item

New Haven, CT: October 6, 1948., 1948.. Very good. - Typed letter filling most of one side of a cream-colored 7-1/4 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide sheet of "Yale University / Institute of Human Relations" letterhead. Signed "Ralph Linton". There is very light creasing to the top left corner of the letterhead. Folded twice for mailing. Near… Read more about this item

Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc., (1951)., (1951).. Very good. - Octavo, gray cloth. The top edge of the front cover is discolored. ix, [1] leaf & 322 pages. Illustrated with a double-page map & pictorial pastedowns & endpapers. A previous owner's name is penned on the half-title. There is minor foxing to the lower end of the fore-edge.… Read more about this item

Paris/The Haugue: Mouton, 1973., 1973.. Very good. - Quarto, softcover bound in printed gray wrappers. The spine is darkened & lightly creased with the head slightly chipped. xiv & 696 pages. Illustrated with tables. Very good. <p>Bibliotheque Arctique et Antarctique IV. Publications du Centre d'Etudes Arctiques. The Center is directed by Jean Malaurie who edited this volume… Read more about this item

(Malmo, Sweden): Allhems Forlag, (1958)., (1958).. Good. - Quarto [approximately 11-1/4 inches high by 8-5/8 wide] orange cloth with an illustration in black on the front cover. The bottom corner of the front cover is soiled & there is some creasing to the spine. Profuse full-page color illustrations. The gutters are darkened. Good. <p>First edition in Swedish.<p>"Inledning och… Read more about this item

Copenhagen: National Museum of Denmark, 2001.. 2001.. Very good. - Quarto [11-1/2 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial black-and-white wrappers. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped with light creasing to the top corner of the front wrap. 145 pages. Illustrated in black & white. Very good. <p>National Museum Ethnological Series, vol. 19, edited by Martin… Read more about this item

[Leningrad & Moscow: Iskusstvo], 1959.. 1959.. Good. - Quarto, 10-3/4 inches high by 8-1/8 inches wide. Yellow cloth titled in orange and gilt on the spine with gilt silhouettes of ostriches stamped in gilt on the front cover and in blind on the rear cover. The head of the spine is heavily bumped with some lighter bumping to the corners… Read more about this item

Ottawa: (Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery), 1964.. 1964.. Very good. - Octavo, soft covers bound in printed brown-and-white wraps. The spine & extremities are slightly darkened. The wraps are lightly rubbed with the corners slightly creased. x & 114 pages. The bottom corners of the first few leaves are lightly creased. Illustrated with 4 black-and-white maps, 2 of them… Read more about this item

Ottawa: Northern Science Research Group Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, 1969.. 1969.. Good. - Small quarto [8-1/2 inches by 11 inches] soft covers bound in black & white decorative wraps with a white plastic strip. The binding is lightly soiled. There are some red ink markings on the front wrap & a small tear to the top corner… Read more about this item

Ottawa [Canada]: F. A. Acland, 1925.. 1925.. Good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt with a vignette map in gilt & green on the front cover. The binding is bumped, rubbed & lightly soiled and there are tiny white stains to the rear cover. The spine is a bit faded with its head & tail chipped. 506 pages. Illustrated… Read more about this item

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, (1924).. (1924).. Good. - Small octavo [6-3/8 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide], blue cloth with paper labels on the front cover & spine. The binding is bumped with staining to the covers & with the rear cover heavily rubbed. The spine is darkened with the head chipped. The label on the spine… Read more about this item

(Paris): Olivier Perrin, (1965).. (1965).. Fair. - Small quarto [approximately 8-1/2 inches high by 7-3/4 inches wide], pictorial paper covered boards. The binding is rubbed & bumped. There is a large piece out of the head of the spine & a tear to the tail. The joints are worn & chipped. 98 & [4] pages plus colophon. Profuse black-and-white photographic… Read more about this item

Saint-Petersburg: Filologicheskii fakul'tet Sankt-Petersburgskogo gos. universiteta, 2006., 2006.. Fine. - Octavo, decorative paper covered boards. There is very light rubbing to the rear board & to corners of the covers. 660 & [4] pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Near fine. <p>First edition.<p>A book about shamanism in Siberia, including rites, ceremonies and folklore. Bibliographical references are listed on pages 634-643.<p>The text… Read more about this item

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, Inc., (1930).. (1930).. Good. - Octavo, olive green cloth. The binding is lightly bumped & the spine is sunned. x & 372 pages. Black-and-white frontispiece & black-and-white illustrations. There is some light staining to the preliminaries, including to the margins of the frontispiece. Good. <p>Reprint edition.

Nuuk: Gronlands Landsmuseum / Kobenhavn: Christian Ejlers' Forlag, 1985.. 1985.. Very good. - Small quarto [10-1/2 inches high by 7-3/4 inches wide], paper-covered boards with a vignette in brown on the front cover, in a dust wrapper. The book is housed in a gray cardboard slipcase with an illustration in black & gray on the front panel. The edges of… Read more about this item

Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala Sons & Co. Private Ltd., (1956).. (1956).. Good. - Quarto [11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped with some light spotting to the rear cover. The dust jacket is chipped. The spine of the dust jacket is darkened with pieces out of the head… Read more about this item