Structure, Verses, Agency Books

New Guinea Headhunt

Mytinger, Caroline · 1946

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Printing of an important early popularization of Melanesian ethnography. Fine black-and-white map endpaper of the Gulf of Papua, the Trobriand islands and the Louisiade Archi...

Tahitians: Mind and Experience in the Society Islands

Levy, Robert · 1973

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Fine-lo...

Laws of Livingstonia: A Narrative of Missionary Adventure and Achievement

Livingstone, W.P. · 0

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, . Popular Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the undated, Popular Edition; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. From the library of a professional ethnographer, John Barker. Pulling of black-a...

Village on the Edge: Changing Times in Papua New Guinea

Smith, Michael French · 2002

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Beyond a handful of penned tick-margins in margins, a sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shel...

Through a Glass Darkly: Beer and Modernization in Papua New Guinea

Marshall, Mac, ed. · 1982

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Boroko, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. An oversized trade paperback marred only by a slight bit of furling to upper front tip and previous owner's penned inscription. ...

Through a Glass Darkly: Beer and Modernization in Papua New Guinea

Marshall, Mac, ed. · 1982

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.38 | ¥4,088)

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Internally quite fine, an oversized trade paperback marred only by a spot of paper loss to front cover. Previous owner's big Sharpie ins...

Native Cultures of the Pacific Islands

Oliver, Douglas · 1989

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Long considered the best one-volume introduction the insular Pacific, drawn from his magisterial two-volume set of the same name. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfu...

Social Anthropology in Melanesia

Elkin, A.P. · 1953

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Blue cloth over boards, previous owner's penned inscription at first free endpaper. Illustrated en...

Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era

Kay, Dennis · 1992

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, William and Morrow Co., 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Accessible, scholarly biography of The Bard by the Lecturer of English at Oxford University in Oxford, England, an expert on the funeral clergy of England and Renaissance history. Struc...

Shakespeare the Thinker

Nuttall, A.D. · 2007

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Accessible, scholarly biography of The Bard by the Professor of English at Oxford University in Oxford, England. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover in Imperial octa...

Shakespeare for All Time

Wells, Stanley · 2003

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 2003. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Accessible, scholarly biography of The Bard by the Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies at University of Birmingham. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover in shor...

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

Dobson, Michael and Stanley Wells · 2001

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

New York, Oxford University Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover in short quarto format, measuring 11" x 9" wide, little discernible wear to the cloth over boards covers, bright interior, unmarked. Bright ...

Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy

Cavafy, C.P.; Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, eds. · 1973

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1973. Second Printing. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Stated Second Printing. From ...

Cavafy's Alexandria

Keeley, Edmund · 1996

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1996. Second Printing. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. From the publisher's blurb, "...

Love and the Symbolic Journey in the Poetry of Cavafy Eliot and Seferis: An Interpretation with Detailed Poem-by-Poem Analysis

Capri-Karka, C. · 1982

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

New York, Pella Publishing Company, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being only two additional copies available currently. An interpretation with detailed, poem-by-poem analysis. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy...

Collected Poems

Cavafy, C.P. · 1992

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1992. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated 20th printing of the Revised Edition, 1992, translated from the original Greek of Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, and edited by George Savidis. Covers the period 1896-1932....

The Poems of C.P. Cavafy

Cavafy, C.P.; John Mavrogordato, transl. · 1952

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

New York, The Grove Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, blue cloth over boards, a bit wrinkled, lightly sunned, generally clean interiors, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities....

Selected Poems

Cavafy, C.P.; Avi Sharon, transl. · 2007

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Penguin Books, 2007. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Translated and with an Introduction by Avi Sharon, sturdy condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. 220...

Darkness of Evil: A Karen Vail Novel

Jacobson, Alan · 2017

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

Tualatin, Oregon, Norwood Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being no additional copies in this state and condition available on-line currently. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line ...

Inmate 1577

Jacobson, Alan · 2011

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

Tualatin, Oregon, Norwood Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade in this state and condition, being SIGNED and NUMBERED. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, ...