Structure, Verses, Agency Books

We Live in Bodies

Ellen Dore Watson · 1997

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Farmington, ME, Alice James Books, 1997. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. We Live in Bodies, by Ellen Dore Watson. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. First printing. 80 ...

The Poem in Its Skin

Paul Carroll · 1968

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Chicago, Follett, 1968. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The Poem in its Skin, by Paul Carroll, a Big Table Book, the first book of criticism to explore the influential generation of American poets now in their 40s in the '60s. John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, James Dickey, ...

The Swordfish Tooth

Cynthia Zarin · 1989

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The Swordfish Tooth, by Cynthia Zarin, Stated First Edition, First Printing. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers, sunning of spine from purple to blue, clean, unmarked text-bloc...

Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club

Kleinzahler, August · 2000

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. First Edition. 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 First Printing. 86 pp.Member, I.O.B.A....

Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected

August Kleinzahler · 2009

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. First Edition Thus. 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 First Edition Thus. 234 pp.Member...

First Course in Turbulanece: Poems by Dan Young

Young, Dean · 1999

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. First Edition. 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. First Course in Turbulen...

A Coyote Reader

Bright, William, ed. · 1993

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1993. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine reader in Coyote-themed Native American poetry. Stated Second Printing. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing o...

Town and Country Matters: Erotica and Satirica

John Hollander · 1972

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Boston, Massachusetts, David R. Godine, 1972. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First Printing of oversized trade paperback edition, printed in Boston in 1972 by David R. Godine. Illustrations by Anne Hollander. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate...

Time Well Spent

Cheesman, Evelyn · 1960

$16.80 (€15.24 | £12.72 | ¥2,683)

London, England, The Travel Book Club, 1960. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition (Thus) exemplar of this fine travelogue about traveling, a Travel Book Club monthly selection. Publisher's original blue cloth over boards, sharp and disti...

Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840

Calder, Alex, Jonathan Lamb and Bridget Orr, eds. · 1999

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Honolulu, Hawai'i, University of Hawai'i Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Handsomely bound in publisher's light brown linen cloth over boards, with gi...

Nuclear Nativity: Rituals of Renewal and Empowerment in the Marshall Islands

Carucci, Laurence Marshall · 1987

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Dekalb, Illinois, Northern Illinois University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and bracing ethnographic account of U.S. nuclear bomb testing in the Marshalls by a noted ethnographer. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little disc...

Mandak Realities: Person and Power in Central New Ireland

Clay, Brenda Johnson · 1986

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 1986. 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. Light green publisher's cloth over boar...

Unstable Images: Colonial Discourse on New Ireland Papua New Guinea 1875-1935

Clay, Brenda Johnson · 2009

$8.80 (€7.98 | £6.66 | ¥1,405)

Honolulu, Hawai'i, University of Hawai'i, 2009. 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. From the publisher's blurb...

Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State

Carrier, James G. and Achsah H. Carrier · 1989

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine ethnography by Achsah and James Carrier, who have studied the Ponam society of Papua New Guinea over a period of eight years by this time. After thirteen...

The Ghost Road

Barker, Pat · 1995

$27.20 (€24.68 | £20.59 | ¥4,343)

New York, E.P. Dutton, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Second Printing of the First Edition. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, ...

Clio in Oceania: Toward a Historical Anthropology

Biersack, Aletta · 1991

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present. Aletta Biersack edits and contributes substantively to a fine reader in historical anthropology, d...

Tradition and Christianity: The Colonial Transformation of a Solomon Islands Society

Burt, Ben · 1994

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,026)

Chur, Switzerland, Harwood Academic Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and compelling ethnography of the coming of Christanity and the pressures of social and cultural change to the Malaitans of the Solomon Islands. Fine-looking, structurall...

The Papua-New Guinea Elections 1964

Bettison, David G., Colin A. Hughes Paul W. van der Veur · 1965

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Canberra, A.C.T., Australian National University, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, with fully intact but heavily worn and moderately chipped illustrated paper dust jacket, w...

Women As Unseen Characters: Male Ritual in Papua New Guinea

Bonnemere, Pascale, ed. · 2004

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the editor, inscribed warmly to the former owner, the insular Pacific specialist, John Barker, major ethnographer of the Maisin people of Papua New Guinea. Bound ...

Folk-Tales of Salishan and Sahaptin Tribes

Boas, Franz, ed. · 1917

$140.00 (€127.02 | £105.97 | ¥22,356)

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, For The American Folk-Lore Society, by G.E. Stechert & Co., 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First Edition state, a fine collection of Western and Pacific Northwestern Native American folk-lore and mythology, especially of the S...