Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Unfolding the Moon: Enacting Women's Kastom in Vanuatu

Bolton, Lissant · 2003

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Honolulu, Hawai'i, University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the ethnographic study of the insular Pacific. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. ...

The Tree and the Canoe: History and Ethnogeography of Tanna

Bonnemaison, Joel; Josee Penot-Demetry, translator · 1994

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Honolulu, Hawai'i, University of Hawai'i Press, 1994. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bound simply in green cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Ma...

Anthropology's Global Histories: The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935

Buschmann, Rainer F. · 2009

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Honolulu, Hawai'i, University of Hawai'i Press, 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. Apparently unread, s...

Wealth of the Solomons: A History of a Pacific Archipelago, 1800-1978

Bennett, Judith A. · 1987

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Honolulu, Hawai'i, University of Hawaii Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Pacific Islands Monograph Series. Bound in a fine-looking, structurally sound, simple, blue-cloth-over-boards hardcover format, little disce...

Colonialism, Maasina Rule, and the Origins of Malaitan Kastom

Akin, David W. · 2013

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Honolulu, Hawai'i, University of Hawaii Press, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Pacific Islands Monograph Series, a bracing, deep, probing ethnography set in the Solomon Islands of a millennarian "cargo cult," called Maa...

The Other Side: Ways of Being and Place in Vanuatu

Taylor, John Patrick · 2008

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Honolulu, Hawai'i, University of Hawaii Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Pacific Islands Monograph Series. Brilliant, sturdy, attractive brick-red linen cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to fron...

Dancing Through Time: A Sepik Cosmology

Telban, Borut · 1998

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Oxford, England, Clarendon Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Oxford University Press series, Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. From the publisher's blurb, the ethnography presents "a rich and inci...

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Hosseini Khaled · 2007

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Riverhead Books, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine novel by the author of The Kite Runner. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and s...

And the Mountains Echoed

Hosseini Khaled · 2013

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Riverhead Books, 2013. 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. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. 402 pp.Me...

Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook

Thomas, Nicholas · 2003

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Toronto, Canada, Viking Canada, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The product of over 20 years' research into Pacific island culture, history, travel and exploration, Nicholas Thomas offers his synthesis of the three world-changing voyages made by the En...

Schism and Continuity in an African Society: A Study of Ndembu Village Life

Turner, V.W. · 1968

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Manchester, England, Manchester University Press on behalf of the Institute for Social Research, University of Zambia, 1968. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A classic ethnography of an important book by a noted symbolic anthropologist. Sturdy, attractive, ...

Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before, Together with Notes on the Cults and Customs of Twenty-Three Other Islands in the Pacific Ocean

Turner, George · 1983

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Papakura, New Zealand, R. McMillan, 1983. Reprint. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. An uncommonly good-looking exemplar of the reprint edition of 1983, having published first in 1884 and with an Introduction then by E.B. Tylor. Scarce in the trade. Uber-handsome binding of black...

Against All Enemies

Clancy, Tom, with Peter Telep · 2011

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Massively heavy, oversized volume, a big, fat, sprawling Tom Clancy novel about Navy SEALs, based on the characters developed by Tom Clancy over the years and over the years also in cahoots...

Threat Vector

Clancy, Tom, with Mark Greaney · 2012

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Massively heavy, oversized volume, a big, fat, sprawling Tom Clancy novel based on the characters developed by Tom Clancy over the years and over the years also in cahoots with Mark Greaney...

Full Force and Effect: A Jack Ryan Novel

Clancy, Tom, with Mark Greaney · 2014

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Massively heavy, oversized volume, a big, fat, sprawling Tom Clancy novel based on the character Jack Ryan, developed in several other Tom Clancy novels. Fine-looking, structurally sound ha...

Shadow Warriors

Clancy, Tom, with General Carl Stiner and Tony Koltz · 2002

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn beyond...

The Outside Man: Jack Hides of Papua

Sinclair, James · 1969

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Lansdowne Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Unique in the trade, there being no other SIGNED copies and in First Edition state. SIGNED by the author, the esteemed patrol officer James Sinclair, inscribed warmly "To...

Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia

Herdt, Gilbert H. · 1984

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in brown linen cloth over boards, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Dust ja...

The Pacific Theater: Island Representations of World War II

White, Geoffrey M. and Lamont Lindstrom, eds. · 1990

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean interior, minimal rubbing to extremities, slight rubbing of green lettering to spine...

Islands of Rainforest: Agroforestry, Logging and Eco-Tourism in Solomon Islands

Hviding, Edvard and Tim Bayliss-Smith · 2000

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Aldershot, England, Ashgate, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author to the former owner, the historian of religion in the insular Pacific, John Barker. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, apparently...