Structure, Verses, Agency Books

The Marriage Plot

Eugenides, Jeffrey · 2011

$20.80 (€18.87 | £15.74 | ¥3,321)

New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised t...

Art Deco and Modernist Carpets

Day, Susan · 2002

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2002. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Stated First U.S. Edition, First Printing, having come out the same year in the U.K. by Stein & Day, with "1" in "number" line present. 224 pp. and including full notes, bibliograph...

The German Photographic Annual 1958

Strache, Wolf, ed. · 1958

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Photographic Book Publishing, 1958. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean interior, lightly toned interior, some foxing up-front, else clean and unmarked, minimal rubbing to ex...

Bangor "Spectator" Year Book and Directory

C.J. Stewart & Son, Ltd. · 1953

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Conway Square Newtownards, C.J. Stewart & Son, Ltd., 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Bright orange buckram cloth binding over original wraps, new stiff card-stock endpapers, being a 1953 directory filled with telephone numbers, addresses and period adv...

To Teach the Children: Historical Aspects of Education in Hawai'i

Pickens, Alexander, ed. · 1991

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Honolulu, Hawai'i, Bernice Bishop Museum, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. An apparently unique item in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear o...

Secrets of Rusty Things: Transforming Found Objects Into Art

de Meng, Michael · 2007

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Cincinnati, Ohio, North Light Publishing, 2007. Second Printing. Softcover. Size: Square 4to 9" - 11" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Square trade softcover format,...

Three Photographic Visions

Trisolini Gallery, Gus Blaisdell, Lois Gruberger and Arnold Gassan · 1977

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Dayton, Ohio, Dayton Art Institute, for the Trisolini Gallery, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Oblong 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy of a Dayton Art Institute exhibit in 1977 in Dayton, Ohio, 1977, featuring the new works of Gus Blaisdell, Lois ...

Zaftig: The Case for Curves

St Paige, Edward · 2000

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Seattle, Washington, Darling & Company, 2000. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Stated Second Printing of this fabulous homage to the zaftig woman. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and sh...

They Had a Dream: The Story of African American Astronauts

Phelps, J. Alfred · 1994

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Novato, California, Presidio Press, 1994. 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. Ple...

Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia

Kilian, Crawford · 1978

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Vancouver, British Columbia , Douglas & MacIntyre, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Blue cloth over boards, very light sunnin...

The Fugitive; Bandit Love; the Goodbye Kiss; Death's Dark Abyss

Carlotto, Massimo · 2007

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,026)

New York, Europa Editions, . First English Edtion. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine-looking lot, uniformly Fine condition set of The Fugitive (2007, translated by Antony Shugaar, 162 pp. with author and publisher notes); Bandit Love (2010, translated by Antony Shugaa...

Prehistory of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea

Watson, Virginia Drew and J. David Cole · 1977

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean but for previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper, bright of interior, minimal rubbing...

Social Formations of Wonder: Anthropology and Awe

Timmer, Jaap and Matt Tomlinson, eds. · 2019

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

Oxon, England, Routledge Press, 2019. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Jaap Timmer and Matt Tomlinson have contributed to this fine read in modernist anthropology, with contributions also by Rachael Morgain, Eve Vincent, Benjamin R. Hall, Paul G. Keil, Michael W. Scott an...

Population, Reproduction, & Fertility in Melanesia

Stanley J. Ulijaszek, ed. · 2005

$15.20 (€13.79 | £11.51 | ¥2,427)

New York, Berghahn Books, 2005. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the series, Fertility, Reproduction, and Sexuality, this being Volume 8. From the publisher's blurb, "Human biological fertility was considered an important issue to anthropologi...

Migration and Transformations: Regional Perspectives on New Guinea

Strathern, Andrew J. and Gabriele Sturzenhofecker, eds. · 1994

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the A.S.A.O. series published by the University of Pittsburgh Press for years. Contributions by the two editors, Andrew J. Strathern ...

Encyclopedia of Papua and New Guinea, Complete in Three Volumes

Ryan, Peter (ed.) · 1972

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne University Press, in association with the University of Papua and New Guinea, 1972. . Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Complete in three volumes, with acetate jackets, as issued, though chipped a bit. Paginated with xvi, 588, 589 -...

Mortuary Dialogues: Death Ritual and T He Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities

Lipset, David and Erick K. Silverman · 2016

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Berghahn Books, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Another fine contribution to the A.S.A.O. Studies in Pacific Anthropology, this being Volume 7. Sturdy, attractive...

The Anthropology of Empathy: Experiencing the Lives of Others in Pacific Societies

Hollan, Douglas W. and C. Jason Throop, eds. · 2011

$68.00 (€61.70 | £51.47 | ¥10,859)

New York, Berghahn Books, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally c...

The Future of Indigenous Museums: Perspectives from the Southwest Pacific

Stanley, Nick · 2007

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Berghahn Books, 2007. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The author is Director of Research and Chair of Postgraduate Studies at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight bin...

Sana: An Autobiography of Michael Somare

Somare, Michael · 1975

$320.00 (€290.33 | £242.22 | ¥51,100)

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Niugini Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-rare title in the trade in this state (First Edition, First Printing) and condition, there being only one additional copy SIGNED by the author, the very first Prime Min...