Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Inter-Trival Relations of the Maenge People of New Britain

Panoff, Michel · 1969

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Canberra, A.C.T., Australia, New Guinea Research Unit, The Australian National University, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Bulletin Number 30 A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Illustrated, printed card-st...

Gender Rituals: Female Initiation in Melanesia

Lutkehaus, Nancy C. and Paul B. Roscoe, eds. · 1995

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Routledge, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy copy, with unfurled tips, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial covers, but with some highlighting here and there. From the personal library of a noted Papua Ne...

Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands

Lindenbaum, Shirley · 1979

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Palo Alto, California, Mayfield Publishing Company, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. She was my teacher! Nice-looking, structurally sound trade paperback of the stated First Edition exemplar of Lindenbaum's classic ethnography of the so-called Kuru epid...

Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll and Their Challenge to Western Theory

Lutz, Catherine · 1996

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1996. Fourth Printing. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Crease to front bottom tip dissipating quickly. From the personal library of a noted insul...

Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands

Lindenbaum, Shirley · 1979

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Palo Alto, California, Mayfield Publishing Company, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Nice-looking, structurally sound trade paperback of the stated First Edition exemplar of Lindenbaum's classic ethnography of the so-called Kuru epidemic affecting the F...

Anthropology in the High Valleys: Essays on the New Guinea Highlands in Honor of Kenneth E. Read

Langness, L.L. and Terence E. Hays, eds. · 1987

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Novato, California, Chandler & Sharp Publishers, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine festschrift for Kenneth E. ("Mick") Read, one of the key figures in New Guinea Highlands ethnography of the 1960s and 1970s. Bound handsomely in textured burgundy l...

A Doctor in Paradise

Lambert, S.M. · 1942

$16.80 (€15.24 | £12.72 | ¥2,683)

London, England / Melbourne, Australia, J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. / George Jaboor, 1942. Second Australian Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the stated Second Australian Edition; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Pebbly b...

The Disappearance of Lyndsey Barratt

Wilson, John · 1998

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, William Morrow & Co., 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line ...

The Zero

Walter, Jess · 2006

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

, Regan Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at a special page. Black cloth over boards, scuffing to, ding of top front edge. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn panels, scuffed in ...

Berlin Wild

Welt, Elly · 1986

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Viking, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Stated First Edition,...

The Godfather Returns

Winegardner, Mark · 2004

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Random House, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line present. A fine novel based on the Corleone Family characters that were created originally by Mario Puzo. Superior copy, gift...

Ararat

Thomas, D.M. · 1983

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, The Viking Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at title page, yet another fine novel set amidst the Solidarity Movement in Poland ni 1981 akin similar movements that took place in early 19th-century Russia. Fine-lookin...

The Summer of Katya

Trevanian · 1983

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Crown Publishers, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for previous owner's embossed stamp at title page. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated,...

Hard Freeze: A Joe Kurtz Novel

Simmons, Dan · 2002

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Boston, Massachusetts, St. Martin's Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Stated First Edition, Fir...

The First Circle

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander; Thomas P. Whitney, translator · 1968

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Harper & Row, 1968. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean but for previous owner's penned inscription, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shi...

The Anderson Tapes

Sanders, Lawrence · 1970

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The Anderson Tapes was the author's first novel and was made into the film of the same name and that starred Sean Connery and Dyan Cannon, a successful film. Fine-looking, structurally sound...

A Changed Man

Prose, Francine · 2005

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, HarperCollins , 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED at the second free endpaper by Francine Prose, author also of Blue Angel and a National Book Award finalist. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, br...

The Flight of the Silvers

Price, Daniel · 2014

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Blue Rider Press, by Penguin, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Presumably SIGNED by the author in a silver Sharpie at title page. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny...

Set in Darkness

Rankin, Ian · 2012

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, St. Martins / Minotaur Books, 2012. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, ...

Lasher

Rice, Anne · 1993

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition. Another fine novel from the author of The Vampire Chronicles; this one extends the dynasty of witches as introduced in The Witching Hour. Fine-looking, structurally sound ...