Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii, Volume One--Historical Ethnography

Sahlins, Marshall · 1992

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Written under the assistance of Dorothy B. Barrere, a big, tall, quarto hardcover format blue cloth over boards, still sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny ...

No Longer Captives of the Past / Ne Plus Etre Esclaves Du Passe: The Story of a Reconciliation on Erromango / L'Histoire D'Une Reconciliation Sur Erromango

Mayer, Carol, Anna Naupa, Vaness Warri · 2013

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Port Vila, Vanuatu / Vancouver, British Columbia, Erromango Cultural Association / Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being only one additional copy available on-line....

Kula: Myth and Magic in the Trobriand Islands

Malnic, Jutta and John Kasaipwalova · 1998

$21.60 (€19.60 | £16.35 | ¥3,449)

Rushcutters, Australia, Halstead Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" 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 ...

Art of the Sepik River: Authority and Ornament in Papua New Guinea

Greub, Suzanne · 0

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Basel, Germany, Tribal Art Centre, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine and due homage to the artistic traditions in Papua New Guinea as seen through the art history of the Sepik River peoples of Papua New Guinea. Essays by Suzanne Greub, Christian Kau...

Maat Village, Efate: A Relocated Community in the New Hebrides

Tonkinson, Robert · 1968

$27.20 (€24.68 | £20.59 | ¥4,343)

Eugene, Oregon, Anthropology Department, University of Oregon, 1968. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A 1968 publication based upon a 1952 study the author conducted near Vila, the main town of the New Hebrides, an investigation of social and cultural chang...

Change and Development in Rural Melanesia: Papers from the Fifth Waigani Seminar

Ward, Marion W., ed. · 1972

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Waigani, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, University of Papua New Guinea, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of a set of Waigani Papers, the series that commenced in the 1960s and that continued on for a number of y...

Priorities in Melanesian Development: Papers from the Sixth Waigani Seminar

May, Ronald J., ed. · 1973

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Waigani, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea , University of Papua New Guinea, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of a set of Waigani Papers, the series that commenced in the 1960s and that continued on for a number of ...

Education in Melanesia: Papers for the Eighth Waigani Seminar

Brammall, J. and Ronald May, eds. · 1975

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Port Moresby, University of Papua New Guinea, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of a set of Waigani Papers, the series that commenced in the 1960s and that continued on for a number of years, each seminar being he...

Urbanisation and Its Problems in Papua New Guinea: Papers Presented to the 1979 Waigani Seminar

Jackson, Richard, Patrick Batho and John Odongo · 1980

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, University of Papua New Guinea, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of a set of Waigani Papers, the series that commenced in the 1960s and that continued on for a number of years, eac...

Cloth and Human Experience

Weiner, Annette and Jane Schneider · 1989

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in this state and condition, being a fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, i...

Cold Service: A Spenser Mystery

Parker, Robert · 2005

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, G.P. Putnam's , 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Spenser: God's gift to the Boston crime scene in detective fiction. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, very little discernible wear but for slight scuffing to front cover, bright interi...

Night and Day

Parker, Robert · 2009

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine Jesse Stone novel from an acknowledged master, uber-creepy and satisfying. "Dear Chief Stone: I know you have been looking for me. I won't turn myself in, i probably should but ...

Freedom

Franzen, Jonathan · 2010

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Nice-looking hardcover copy of the First Edition, bound in two-tone, paper over boards, cloth-backed. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected in Brodart, quite...

Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means

Vollmann, William T. · 2003

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2003. . Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. An apparent First Printing of the First Trade Paperback Edition, being the abridged version of the monumental seven-volume work of the same name, published the year prior, his 3,500-page ...

The Corrections

Franzen, Jonathan · 2001

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition inside and out, a fifth printing of the First Edition, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket. Another fine novel by one of the few n...

Freedom

Franzen, Jonathan · 2010

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at title page. Nice-looking hardcover copy of the First Edition, bound in two-tone, paper over boards, cloth-backed. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, litt...

Lisey's Story

Stephen King · 2006

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Scribner, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Apparently unread, spine still crackles. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Pictorial, colorful hardcover. First Editi...

Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means

Vollmann, William T. · 2004

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

New York, Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2004. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. An apparent First Printing of the First Edition Thus, being the abridged version of the monumental seven-volume work of the same name, published the year prior, his 3,50...

The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper & the Ruptured World

Kenny, Robert · 2007

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Scribe, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of a fine historical ethnography of the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia and the coming of Christian missionaries. Unfurled tips, tight bindi...

Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought

Lansdown, Richard, ed. · 2006

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. Second Printing. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of a stated Second Printing, with plentiful black-and-white illustrations and photographs. From the collection of a major scholar of cult...