Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Custom and Confrontation: The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy

Keesing, Roger · 1993

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy of a major ethnography of the Kwaio people of Malaita. Minor wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly rea...

The Ethnographic Experiment: A.M. Hocart and W.H. R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908

Hviding, Edvard and Cato Berg · 2014

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

New York, Berghahn Books, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. From the personal library of Dan Jorgensen, noted Papua New Guinea scholar and major ethnographer ...

Black Bonanza: A Landslide of Gold

Peter Ryan · 1995

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Yarra, Victoria, Australia, Hyland House, 1995. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine ethnography of the Panguna Mine-site in Papua New Guinea. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor ...

Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier

Rutherford, Danilyn · 2002

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2002. . 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. From the personal library of Dan Jorgensen, ...

Melanesian Odyssesy: Negotiating the Self, Narrative and Modernity

Josephides, Lisette · 2008

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Berghahn Books, 2008. 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. From the personal library of Dan Jorgensen, noted Papua ...

The Unseen City

Goddard, Michael · 2005

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Canberra, A.C.T., Australia, Pandanus Books, 2005. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A major contribution to urban ethnography of Melanesia, with a particular focus on the national capital of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled ...

Zaria's Fire: Engendered Moments in Manam Ethnography

Lutkehaus, Nancy C. · 1995

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Durham, North Carolina, Carolina Academic Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, minimal rubbing to extremities, and with previous owner's penned notes throughout and at book's final endpapers. Bright and sh...

A Lot of Five (5) Contributions to the Mermaid Series: George Farquhar; Christopher Marlowe; John Dryden, in Two Volumes; Sir John Vanbrugh

Archer, William; Havelock Ellis; A.E.H. Swain; George Saintsbury · 1887

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, . . Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. The Mermaid Series was published by Vizetelly & Co.; T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd.; Ernest Benn, Ltd.; Charles Scribner's Sons; A.A. Wyn, Inc.; from 1887-1966. This is a serviceable lot (with no dates of publication lis...

The Manures Most Advantageously Applicable to the Various Sorts of Soils

Kirwan, Richard · 0

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

London, Printerd for Vernor and Hood, . . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An item of ephemera from the personal collection of Mr. Robert Allen, Altadena, California bookseller and appraiser. Disbound from perhaps an academic journal, and neither year of publication nor edi...

The Poetical Works of Andrew Lang

Lang, Andrew; Mrs. Lang, ed. · 1923

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

London, England, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1923. . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Easily Good condition set of four volumes bound as two, the India Paper Edition of the Poetical Works of Andrew Lang as edited by Mrs. Lang. With Sir W.B. Richmond's two fine black-and-white port...

The Adventures of Count Fathom

Smollett, Dr. [Tobias] · 1790

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

London, C. Cooke, . Cooke's Editions. Hardcover. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Complete in two volumes, another contribution to the influential Cooke's Editions of English literature and poetry, geography and history. Undated, but certainly the 1790s, and with the same "supe...

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Cooke's Edition, Complete in Four Volumes

Smollett, Tobias · 1790

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

London, C. Cooke, . . Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Tobias Smollett, Scottish author, was well known for his translations and editings of famous works such as David Hume's philosophies, Cervante's Don Quixote, and his own Gil Blas, and then penned this mid-18th century ...

American Notes for General Circulation

Dickens, Charles · 1842

$68.00 (€61.70 | £51.47 | ¥10,859)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1842. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. My copy of William Clyde Wilkins' First and Early American Editions of the Works of Charles Dickens (1910, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, privately printed), being a Presentation Copy to A. Edward New...

Notes by F.G. Stephens on a Collection of Drawings and Woodcuts by Thomas Bewick, Exhibited at the Fine Art Society's Rooms, 1880; Also a Complete List of All Works Illustrated by Thomas and John Bewick, with Their Various Editions

Stephens, F.G.; catalogue assembled by D.C. Thomsen · 1881

$116.00 (€105.25 | £87.80 | ¥18,524)

London, The Fine Art Society, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. First Edition Thus, being the first illustrated edition and assembled with the help of the Misses Bewick, presumably the wives of Thomas and John. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcov...

A Discourse, Delivered Before the Lieutenant-Governor, the Council, and the Two Houses Composing the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, May 31, 1809

Osgood, David · 1809

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

London, Russell & Cutler, Printers, for Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles, 1809. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Brief address by David Osgood (1747-1822), Pastor of the Methodist Church in Medford, Massachusetts, and with an Appendix listing all of the others who prea...

Pithecologia, Sive de Simiarum Natura, Carminum Libri Duo [Pithecology, or on the Nature of the Apes, Two Books of Poems, in Favor of the Literary Republic]

Thomassen, Alexander · 1774

$220.00 (€199.60 | £166.52 | ¥35,131)

Amstelaedami, Ex Typographia Gerardi Tielenburg, 1774. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Uncommon in the trade, there being currently only a single additional copy available on-line. Appears to be one of only two titles by the author (the other, held in the Esther ...

Telephe En XII Livres

Anonymous [Jean-Joseph Pechmeja] · 1784

$316.00 (€286.70 | £239.19 | ¥50,461)

London and Paris, Chez Pissot, 1784. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. An unlovely exterior, with rubbed and torn blue paper over boards with some loss thereof, rubbed and scuffed leather-backed, five raised bands to spine, gilt title over burgundy leather label in...

The Origin and History of Missions; a Record of the Voyages, Travels, Labors, and Successes of the Various Missionaries, Who Have Been Sent Forth by Protestant Societies and Churches to Evangelize the Heathen, Complete in Two Volumes

Smith, Thomas and John O. Choules · 1837

$180.00 (€163.31 | £136.25 | ¥28,744)

, , . . Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Two massively heavy, oversized volumes in tall quarto format, newly rebound in matching brown cloth and with fine brown cloth labels over spines, black lettering thereover. Predictably waffled pages, moderate, even foxing, but clea...

George Eliot's Life As Related in Her Letters and Journals

Cross, J. W. [Cross, John Walter] · 1885

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1885. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound set of three hardcover copies comprising the life and letters and accomplishments of George Eliot, the pseudonym of Mary Ann or Mary Anne or Marian Evans...

Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, in Two Volumes

Moore, Thomas · 1825

$108.00 (€97.99 | £81.75 | ¥17,246)

Paris, A. & W. Galignani, 1825. First French Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. An unusually lovely exemplar of a fine two-volume biography of a leading politician. Bound handsomely in polished red calf, deeply debossed illustrations to front covers, and gilt ruling to fr...