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180-209 pages with tables, chart and bibliography. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Anthropological Research, Volume 29, Number 3 complete issue. First edition. This study of wage-labor migration and its relation to household composition and economics is based on a sample of 70 households in a central Mexican town. Specific types of migration are linked to job locations within Mexico or the United States and to the amount and reliability of remittances. The latter two factors are critical in determining the impact of labor migration on the household. New facets of the association of female household headship and out-migration are presented. A predictive model in the form of a flow diagram illustrates the interrelationships of variables. Condition: Previous owner's name to page 145, spine sunned, edge wear, corners bumped else very good.

409 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. Sixth printing. Waiting to Exhale is a story about four Black women who are good friends: Savannah, Robin, Bernadine, and Gloria. The four women get together frequently to provide support, and to listen to each other vent about life and love. They all want to be in a couple but they all have difficulties finding a good man. Condition: Front heal corner bumped else near fine in like jacket.

129 pages with errata laid in, facsimiles, reproductions and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with brown lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. This text is a comprehensive survey of the rampage of accusations made against Kurt Waldheim, about Nazi connections and involvement in war crimes. The author explores how despite there being no truth in these allegations, Waldheim had his reputation destroyed by the media. Condition: Fine in like jacket.

277 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's half blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine over red boards in original publisher's pictorial wrapper's. First edition. A literary treat, caviar to the general--or a bore to others--as well as a plotty labyrinth full of false bottoms and Nabokovian distortion mirrors. The greatest literary publisher in England, Wallace Wales, of Wales & Wales, whose list is stuffed with mummified giants, is dead. His underlings, of course, knew that Wales never read the manuscripts he published, only their synopses and blurbs. And now he has left behind a most twisted will: he wants no obsequies, only to be cremated in black tie, dinner jacket and black hose, after one night in the candlelit mortuary with editor Robert Racine as lone mourner. Imagine Racine's shock when at about 2:30 a.m. the corpse sits up, strikes him on the chest, hops out of his coffin and leaves the mortuary. In the morning, however, the mortician declares that the body was in the… Read More

202 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. Victor Villasenor has presented us with the gift of seeing our lives through a magical lens that makes us feel confident and powerful to meet life's challenges. He offers as examples beautiful stories from his own family history, stories of his mother and father facing the derision and ridicule of older children, developing the courage to encounter the unknown or supernatural, escaping from persecution by soldiers during the Mexican revolution, extending the abilities of their bodies to endure hunger, thirst and physical stress. Walking Stars is filled with the triumph of young people exceeding their the expectations of friends, family and even themselves. The world of young adults, aside from being fraught with trauma and real-life danger, is also filled with the magic and the opportunity to discover what one can really achieve in life. Condition: Jacket… Read More

271-289 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XLIII Number 3 complete issue. First edition.
The proliferation of small groups within American Protestantism, in particular those devoted to Bible study, raises questions about the collective construction of meaning in congregational life. Using discourse as an analytical tool, this article explores the meaning of moral identity as constructed in three Protestant groups in the southern United States. Discursive participants relied on three strategies for building a concept of the moral self: positioning the heart at the center of moral identity; describing what it means to be born again; and describing three moral "others." (Discourse, moral identity, born-again Christianity).
Condition: Light edge wear with bumped corners, head page ends soiled else very good

x+136 pages with maps, charts, tables, figures, drawings and appendices. Quarto (10 3/4" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. The Arizona Archaeologist, Number 23. First edition. During the 12th and the early 13th centuries Walnut Canyon, located east of present day Flagstaff, Arizona, witnessed an explosive growth in the number of sites, including limited activity and habitation sites. This growth resulted in the formation of distinct communities in the canyon and along its rims. Possible explanations for this expansion concern, pan southwestern changes, changing methods of agriculture and accommodating environmental conditions. A model of settlement and land use concentrating on the post-eruptive period after the eruption of Sunset Crater around A.D. 1065 is presented. The model was developed from an analysis of settlement dating using the Minimal Spanning Tree method and the Terrestrial Ecosystem units occupied by sites. Settlement and land use in Walnut Canyon are discussed for the… Read More

432 pages with plates and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4) bound in original publisher's quarter brown cloth with gilt lettering to sine over brown boards with title to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. A detailed reconstruction of Whitman's life and times considers the poet's years of apprenticeship on New York newspapers, his experiences in the Civil War, and his lifetime devotion to the writing and reworking of Leaves of Grass. Condition: Underlining with marginalia throughout, previous owner's name, William Burford, the poet, to half title. Jacket with light edge wear else about very good in a near fine jacket.

xx+185 pages with map, tables, figures and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. The Wanano Indians of the northwest Amazon have a social system that differers from those of most tropical forest tribes. Neither stratified by wealth nor strictly egalitarian, Wanano society is "ranked" according to rigidly bound descent groups. In this pioneering ethnographic study Janet Chaenela decodes the structurer of Wanano society. Condition: Some light yellow marks-a-lot throughout, corners gently bumped. Jacket corners and spine ends lightly chipped else a very good copy in a very good to fine jacket.

111-123 pages. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume XXVIII, Number 1 complete issue. First edition. Contents: Labor Institutions in Japan and Her Economic Growth by Kang Chao; The Announcement of August 20th, 1917 by Richard Danzig; Communalism in the Punjab by Kenneth W Jones; China's Response to foreign Investment in Her Mining Industry by En-Han Lee; Foreign Influence on the Economic Change in Korea by Youngil Lim; Utopian Goals and Ascetic Values in Chinese Communist Ideology by Maurice Meisner; The Failure of Hung Jen-k'an's Foreign Policy by Yuan Chung Teng. Condition: Corners and spine heal bumped, spine sunned else very good.

559-574 pages. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Asian Studies Volume XXVI, Number 4 complete issue. First edition. Contents: Resiliency and Change in the Indian Caste System: The Umar of U P by Richard G Fox; The Osaka Conference of 1875 by Andrew Fraser; An Analysis of Agricultural Outpost Increase on Taiwan, 1953-1964 by Charles Hsi-Chung Kao; December 9, 1935: Student Nationalism and the China Christian Colleges by Jessie G Lutz; The Marxist Movement in India and Pakistan by Hafeez Malik. Condition: Edge wear, corners and spine heal bumped else very good.

168 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and the initials "G E" to cover in original jacket. First edition. War Story is a novel that has already caused heated pre-publication debate here and abroad, where rights have been sold to leading literary publishers in six countries. What is never in dispute, though, is Gwen Edelman's power as a writer: in stark, spare language, she has created an unforgettable and passionate love affair that raises questions about morality and identity, memory and character. Is the troubled moral fiber of Joseph his human nature, or did he become who he is out of necessity, to survive the horrific circumstances placed on a Jewish boy growing up in Europe during the war? Reminiscent of Bernhard Schlink's The Reader, War Story is about the relationship between a once-famous postwar playwright and a young aspiring writer who meet in a secondhand bookstore in New York City, and begin a love affair that takes… Read More

xxii+262 pages with bibliography and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. A plenary symposium on the anthropological study of war was held at the 1967 annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, DC. The organization motivated by concern for the war in Vietnam, invited papers and discussions from about sixteen scholars who had shown interest sin the study of war. This volume contains the papers, discussants' contributions, and comments from the floor during the symposium. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed wrappers lightly rubbed else very good.

204-221 pages with Bibliography. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume 49, number 2 complete issue. First edition.

There is a general opinion, supported by some of the older authors and by much of the modern ethnological data, that the type of Indian warfare as evidenced in northeastern America in the eighteenth century is not an integral part of the aboriginal culture pattern. This view takes the position that warfare of extermination in the area of stress had its roots in abnormal conditions produced by the fur trade and by intensive rivalry of various European nations for domination. On the other hand, some of the earliest accounts of this area describe warlike activities or raids, based upon aboriginal traditions, prior to any European influence. The purpose of this paper is to present an account of the warfare of the period previous to the development of the fur trade and the struggle for supremacy between France and England, and to attempt to establish… Read More

Charles Scribner's Sons 1959-1971 New York, 1971 Very good in a very good dust jacket 1st Hardbound Tall 8vo 4 vols Corners bumped, page ends soiled, DW corners chipped, some edge wear, some chipping to spine ends. Hardcover.

lxi+184 pages with diagrams, plate, tables and index. Octavo (8" x 5 3/4") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Edited and translated by Christopher Becker. Caissa limited editions, volume 4. Number 362 of 700 copies published. Errata laid in. 1st edition.Written around 1800 and ready for the print, this manuscript has remained unpublished until the present day. In the 1840's the great reputation of the "Anonymous Modenese", as del Rio was called, made the manuscript much sought after, and Borsari, its owner, lurks mysteriously in the background of one of Willard Fiske's chess tales. But its contents remained a mystery, and modern chess developed without their help, though not with out help from the already published works of del Rio and the other masters of Modena, Lolli and Poziani. Now part of the John G White's collection in the Cleveland Public Library.Condition:Page ends lightly soiled. A fine copy without jacket as issued.

xii+310 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and blind stamped cover edge ruled with decorations. First edition. This rare 1850 edition includes discussions on battles fought with soldiers and Indians, annexation of new territories including New Mexico, Texas, California, the moral failings caused by war, and much more. Condition: Damp stained and foxed, previous owner's name on front end paper, spine ends chipped, corners bumped and rubbed, 1/4" chipped from corner front end paper else a good copy. .

406 pp., including Notes, Table of Cases, and Index. Pages clean, some browning with age. Binding tight. Inscribed to previous owner. Dust cover scuffed and worn, but no tears; spine slightly faded.

320 pages with color frontispiece, plates (some in color), maps, illustrations, drawings, figures, glossary, bibliography and index. Quarto (11" x 9") bound in original publisher's gold cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Forward by Hugh Trevor-Roper. First edition.Lavishly illustrated with over 230 illustrations in color and black and white, this book tells the story of the last hundred years of the dynasty founded by Henry II in 1154. It begins in 1377 with the accession to the throne of Richard II and ends in 1485 with the death on Bosworth Field of the enigmatic Richard Ill. Condition: Some underlining else a very good copy in a near fine jacket.

253 pages. Octavo (*8 1/2" x 5 3/4"0 bound in original publisher's quarter brown cloth with blue lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. A rash of political deaths alerts a New York cop to an international assassination plot. At a crime scene, Harry Golding has no fear. But put him in front of a few dozen undergraduates, and he begins to sweat. He agrees to give the lecture on criminology for his brother, a New York University professor, and muddles through it, successful until it comes time for questions. A skinny young conspiracy theorist demands to know what the police are doing about the recent death of a presidential candidate. The answer is, they're doing nothing. The man died of a heart attack. Case closed. But when another politician drops dead, seemingly of natural causes, Golding remembers the young student's paranoia. As more politicians die, Harry Golding finds himself in the middle of a terrifying conspiracy that threatens his city, his family, and… Read More