Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Pitch Accent in Hupa

Pliny Earle Goddard · 1928

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Berkeley, California, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology. University of California Press, 1928. . Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy; Offprint from the Uni...

The Washo Language of East Central California and Nevada

Kroeber, A.L. · 1907

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1907. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A.L. Kroeber was the first Ph.D. student of "Papa" (Franz) Boas at Columbia University, and who wrote a Ph.D. dissertation fewer than 30 pages in length. He was als...

Irene Stewart: A Voice in Her Tribe, a Navajo Woman's Own Story

Stewart, Irene; · 1980

$31.20 (€28.31 | £23.62 | ¥4,982)

Menlo Park, California, Ballena Press, 1980. Fourth Printing. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Ballena Press Anthropological Papers No. 17, 1980, series edited by Lowell John Bean and Thomas C. Blackburn. Near Fine condition copy in 4th printing state. An autobiographical...

North American Indian Musical Styles

Nettle, Bruno · 1954

$23.20 (€21.05 | £17.56 | ¥3,705)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American Folklore Society, 1954. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. North American Indian Musical Styles was Volume 45 in the series, Memoirs of the American Folklore Society, published in First Edition state by the American Folklor...

Tsimshian Texts, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 27

Boas, Franz · 1902

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 27. 244 pp., a very attractive condition copy in First Edition state. Bound in publisher's olive-drab blind decorated publisher's clot...

La Grazia: Poema in Decima Rima

dalla Corte, Girolamo Murari · 1793

$156.00 (€141.54 | £118.08 | ¥24,911)

Vicenza, Italy, Nella Stamperia Turra, 1793. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Extremely scarce in the trade, there being only a single additional copy available on-line. A still quite handsome exemplar of an Italian language compilation of verse. Girolamo Mu...

Fox Evil

Walters, Minette · 2003

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at the half-title. Purchased from a dealer who purchased signed first editions directly from the publisher in bulk for resale and/or who sent copies of titles, also in b...

Mountain Time

Doig, Ivan · 1999

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Scribner, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine novel of the American West, SIGNED by the author at title page, set in San Francisco, Montana and Colorado and involving generations of the 1960s. Purchased from a dealer who purchased si...

The Echo

Walters, Minette · 1997

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at title, she being the author of many, many racing murder mysteries. Purchased from a dealer who purchased signed first editions directly from the publisher in bulk for...

The Devil's Feather

Walters, Minette · 2006

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at title page. Purchased from a dealer who purchased signed first editions directly from the publisher in bulk for resale and/or who sent copies of titles, also in bulk, to...

The Breaker

Walters, Minette · 1998

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Toronto, Ontario, McClelland & Stewart, 1998. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Canadian Edition. SIGNED by the author at title page. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright a...

The Breaker

Walters, Minette · 1999

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at title page. Purchased from a dealer who purchased signed first editions directly from the publisher in bulk for resale and/or who sent copies of titles, also in bulk,...

Alice in Jeopardy

McBain, Ed · 2005

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Simon & Schuster, 2005. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED at title page, an apparent book club edition. Simple black cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Lightly creased inner front flap, else bright and shiny, intact and not price-clipped. Another ...

Fox Evil

Walters, Minette · 2003

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at the half-title. Purchased from a dealer who purchased signed first editions directly from the publisher in bulk for resale and/or who sent copies of titles, also...

The Scold's Bridle

Walters, Minette · 1994

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, St. Martin's Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A wealthy but despised Englishwoman is found dead, the victim of a medieval torture device once used to quiet talkative women. Much mayhem ensues. Winner of the C.W.A. Gold Dagger Award for ...

Politics & Poetics

Aristotle · 1964

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Heritage Press, 1964. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, unmarked interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. A justly dubbed classic in Ancient Greece history and culture, po...

Poland

Michener, James · 1983

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Random House, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present. Big, fat, heavy, sturdily bound exemplar in red cloth over boards, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Bright and shiny...

Thrown-Away Child

Adcock, Thomas · 1996

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Pocket Books, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at title page. Purchased from a dealer who purchased signed first editions directly from the publisher in bulk for resale and/or who sent copies of titles, also in bulk, to au...

Dutch Shea, Jr.

Dunne, John Gregory · 1982

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, The Linden Press / Simon & Schuster , 1982. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean but for previous owner's embossed stamp at half-title, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and s...

Mountain Time

Doig, Ivan · 1999

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Scribner, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine novel of the American West, SIGNED by the author at title page, set in San Francisco, Montana and Colorado and involving generations of the 1960s. Purchased from a dealer who purchased si...