Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Port Moresby: Urban Villages and Squatter Areas

Norwood, Hugh · 1970

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

, , . First Edition. Softcover. Size: Square 12mo 7" - 7. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being no copies available on-line currently, a fine, then definitive survey by an accomplished urban sociologist, who published widely in the 1970s his studies based in the nation's capi...

Port Moresby in Maps: Spatial Characteristics of the 1980 Census

King, D. and V. Devi · 1986

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, University of Papua New Guinea , 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Uncommon in the trade, being an important contribution to just-post Independence Papua New Guinea. Yellow card-stock wraps, black tape to spine, former p...

Ol Meri Igat Paua: A Report on the East Sepik Women's Network

Aarnink, Anita and Netty Blydorp · 1985

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Wageningen, Netherlands, Department of Agricultural Sociology, Wageningen, Netherlands , 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Exceedingly rare item in the trade, a fine survey from two East Sepik women about a women's political network. Yellow card-stock ...

Transecting Bisects: Female Spirit Cults As a Prism of Cultural Performance in the Hagen, Pangia, and Duna Areas of Papua New Guinea

Stewart, Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern · 1998

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine condition pre-print by two sterling, influential ethnographers. Okari Research Group Working Paper No. 1, 1997. From the personal library of a noted Papua New Gu...

Inter-Provincial Migration in Papua New Guinea

Walsh, A. Crosbie · 1985

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, National Statistical Office, Papua New Guinea, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, being a clean, tightly staple-bound copy in printed blue wraps with title Sharpied at spine, unmarked of interior...

Priorities in Melanesian Development, the Sixth Waigani Seminar

May, Ronald J. · 1973

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea / Canberra, A.C.T.,, The University of Papua New Guinea / The Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1973. . Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete an...

From Longhouse to Village: Samo Social Change

Shaw, R. Daniel · 1995

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Another fine example of the series, Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology, being by a missionary-anthropologist, R. Daniel Shaw who, with his family, lived among the Samo people fo...

Set of Two (2) Issues of American Anthropologist: Margaret Mead (1901-1978), Volume 82, Number 2, June 1980; New Guinea: The Central Highlands, Volume 66, Number 4, Part 2, 1964

1901

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Washington, D.C., American Anthropological Association, . First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable set of two reference copies of two important issues of the American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association;...

La Pirogue Du Dark Bush: Apercus Critiques Sur L'Histoire Du Mouvement Nagriamel Au Temps Des Nouvelles - Hebrides (Vanuatu)

Abong, Marcellin · 2008

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

, Edition du Centre Culturel du Vanuatu, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author, being inscribed warmly to the previous owner, a noted Papua New Guinea-based researcher, scholar, activist and teacher, Laura Tamakoshi, who has contributed ...

Ethnology of Polynesia and Micronesia

Linton, Ralph · 1926

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1926. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and still fairly sturdy of binding, though printed light blue wraps are soiled and chipped and split at joints and ...

Nemesis

Christie, Agatha · 1971

$13.60 (€12.34 | £10.29 | ¥2,172)

London, The Crime Club, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anyw...

A Newspaper History of the Recent Strike

Anonymous · 1894

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, , 1894. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of a collection of pro-Capital, anti-Labor, anti-union pronouncements on a then "recent" strike involving the American Railway Union; nothing fancy, but complete an...

Southern California: Comprising the Counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange Riverside, San Bernardino San Diego, Venturasouthern California Panama Expositions Commission

Southern California Panama Expositions Commission; John Steven McCarthy · 1914

$8.80 (€7.98 | £6.66 | ¥1,405)

San Francisco, California, Southern California Panama Expositions Commission, 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete (perhaps with inside front flap being pulled away from title page) and stu...

Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality

Ortner, Sherry B. and Harriet Whitehead · 1981

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Cambridge University Press, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by Harriet Whitehead, the junior author, being inscribed to the former owner. A perfectly serviceable reference copy from a professional scholar's library; nothing fancy, but ...

The Lincoln Highway

Towles, Amor · 2022

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Viking Press, 2022. . 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. Another fine...

The Namesake

Lahiri, Jhumpa · 2003

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line present. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny d...

The Syringa Tree

Gien, Pamela · 2006

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Random House, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Debut novel by a fine writer, the playwrite, Pamela Gien, set in South Africa during 1960s apartheid-era South Africa, featuring the adorable, white little Lizzie, who grows up in the turbulent 19...

Nutshell

McEwan, Ian · 2016

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Nan Talese / Doubleday, 2016. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine novel from the author of Atonement, Saturday, Solar and others. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bound handsomely in two-to...

The Lioness

Bohjalian, Chris · 2022

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Doubleday, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine novel from the author of The Flight Attendant and The Hour of the Witch and others. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bound ...

The Red Lotus

Bohjalian, Chris · 2020

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Doubleday, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine novel from the author of The Flight Attendant and The Lioness and others. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bound handsomely...