Search Results: ANTHROPOLOGY Mythology, Sociology from Fortuna Books

London: John Lehmann, 1949 red cloth faded and handling soiled, small marker pen in faded red to top corner of upper board, lending library rubber stamp to paste downs, list of red rubber date stamps to fep, 254pp + plates. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1958 unclipped dust jacket with some splits or minor chipping to corners, taped at head of spine, book clean and comes with slipped in promotional brochure for the book (4pp A3 size), 367pp + colour plates, minor foxing to endpapers. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Summertown: The Book Publishing Company, 1980 272pp light wear to edges, slight foxing to closed edges. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1990 near fine, first in this format, xvi 318pp + map, illustrated, facsimile of original. First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

The Countryman Press and Farrar & Rinehart, 1938 brown cloth lightly sunned to spine, paper title label has lost very small part from bottom corner, bookplate [ ex libris with initials ASP with a naked wench on a bookreaders knee in woodcut ] 190pp with woodcuts throughout, the history of a curious form of courtship in the Northern American states. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Lee Brown Coye. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1951 dust jacket chipped with some loss to edges, soiled, name stamp to fep and closed top edge, 338pp, author searched out and lived with the descendents of the Maya, the Mam Indians of Guatemala. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Phoenix House, 1948 DW some wear and rubbing, gift inscr to paste down, xvii 197pp, selected by secretary of Gypsy Lore Society, frontis and plates, gypsy lore and legend from following traditions; Welsh Polish Russian Latvian Bulgarian Serbo-Bosnian Hungarian Rumanian Piedmontese German Belgian English Scottish Anglo-Welsh. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Dent, 1968 bound in Sundour cloth decorative boards, Children's Illustrated Classics series book number 66, price clipped dust jacket has some light rubbing to the edges with rubbed corners and spine ends, viii 184+ 4pp adverts, coloured line drawings in the text, VG copy, retelling of various ethnic myths, illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe. reprint. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Joan Kiddell-Monroe. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

St lucia: University Queensland Press, 1983 VG and tidy, colour photos, small nick at top right of lower DW edge taped. 289pp heavy may incur higher shipping. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Tim Porter. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

New York: Charles Scribners, 1933 tidy copy of the first printing ( with A to imprint), head of spine split and reinforced on the reverse with pasted paper, fep has full page gift inscription in fountain pen dated 1933 (not by Breasted though) , rear hinge cracked, xvii 431pp + plates, investigates the ethical primacy of Egypt before Hebrew civilization. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Dennis Dobson, 1954 gift inscription to fep, unclipped dust jacket has minor old tape residue to the spine ends and corners, and some ofsetting from tape rust to the feps and fold in flaps, closed edges foxed, nice bright dust jacket by Rudland, 190pp + many plates, investigation of the secret animal cults and cannibalism and human sacrifice in the Niger Delta, Sierra Leone, Liberia and South Africa, witch doctors, human sacrifice etc.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Sydney: Ure Smith, 1955 red cloth minimal rubbing to bottom edge, map end papers, photograph of Beth Dean as she appearedin the ballet 'Corroberee' before Queen Elizabeth. this has been cut from a magazine and taped to the page facing the half title, there is a little tape residue but the tape has been removed and the picture tipped in. 214pp + plates in colour and black and white. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on the tite page underneath their names. They spent time living with aborigines and then staged a ballet based on what they had learned. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Souvenir, 1972 first English edition, DW edge rubbed with short tears to corners etc, unclipped. 246pp + plates, interesting look at ancient technology and cultures and theories on human evolution. Interesting peice on Celtic fairy lore, in similar vein to von Daniken and others who scoff at scientific theories of the age of human civilisation etc. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Kobenhaven: Gyldendalske boghandel nordisk Forlag, 1948 ANDERSENS FAIRY-TALES IN DANISH, half-bound in red cloth with gilt titled spine, marbled boards, closed edges red sprinkles, DW has small hole in lower fore edge fold, spine slightly browned, gift inscription facing illustrated title page, I udvalg ved Hans Brix. Med tegninger af V. Pedersen og L. Frölich. 400 pp. Half Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Vilhelm Pedersen. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Odense: Flensteds Forlag, 1949 ANDERSENS FAIRY-TALES IN DANISH, blue cloth with gilt border and flower with fairy design, top edges gilt, vol 1- 1949, 186pp + 162pp / vol 2- 1950, 159pp + 170pp, line illustrations, clean unmarked copies, Udgivet i samarbejde med H.C.Andersens Hus i Odense. Titelvignet klipning av H.C.Andersen, Topp gullsnitt. . Decorative Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Vilhelm Pedersen. 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall.

London: Gerald G Swan, 1953 book VG, top edge dusty, DW has chipping to spine ends and corners and a little pasted paper repair at foot of spine (on underside) , piece chipped from top of rear panel not affecting text. generally still intact and complete. Cheaper printing. 198pp +2pp adverts. contents include;religions of China and Japan / dragon worship in China / Shinto / Marriage and the family / Eunuchs of China / Girl slaves of China / Prostitution in Chinese Empire & Japan / Geisha / Torture in China / Crime and punishment in Japan / Opium dens / festivals and ceremonies / Japanese Bathing / Population control methods / some strange sexual and socia customs / bibliography. l. reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1991 (500 gram rate) near fine, viii 216pp+ illustrations, facsimile of original. reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1990 xiv 281pp + plates, soft cover, near fine. reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Reprint Society, 1963 DW few short tears spine ends. 239pp + plates. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1947 unclipped dust jacket sunned and with some closed tears, book tidy but has numerous annotations and some undelining, name to fep, xiv 338pp. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.