MANDER LINDEN A

Some dependent peoples of the south Pacific

New York, MacMillan. 1954, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. DW some sun fading, short tears to corner folds book VG 535pp combines anthropology history and colonial administration, describes pre and post european society among the mentioned peoples of the south pacific. New Zealand maori, samoa ,australian aborigine, papua new guinea ,solomon islands, tonga, fiji, new hebrides , issued under auspices of the institute of pacific relations. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 000609

Catalogue: Anthropology Mythology, Sociology

Keywords: New Zealand Maori, Samoa ,Australian Aborigine, Papua New Guinea ,Solomon Islands, Tonga, Fiji, New Hebrides Anthropology Sociology Institute of Pacific Relations

GADDIS A

The Wonders of Egypt (vintage Souvenir Photograph album)

Luxor, A Gaddis. Original Wraps, landscape 4to. Ill.: A Gaddis. 62 b&w plates of Egyptian monuments and statuary, colour front wrapper, rear wrapper palin excepting publisher information, rear wrapper has some surface insect damage, colour decorated title page, ink inscription to inside cover "Donald G Shaw 4/2/42 | P.T. 35" , (500 gram rate). Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011431

Catalogue: Anthropology Mythology, Sociology

Keywords: Early Twentieth Century Photography Egypt Egyptian Pharaoh Monuments Tourist Souvenir Photography a Gaddis

LEIGHTON ALEXANDER

Wilson's Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland. Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative.

London, Walter Scott. 1889, revised. Decorative Cloth, 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall. (500 gram rate) bookplate to paste dwon 'ex libris E M Sladden' designed by Collins, tidy used copy with minor wear or soiling to cloth, rubbed, frayed at spine ends, 256+16pp adverts (dated for 1889). Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 007881

Catalogue: Anthropology Mythology, Sociology

Keywords: Scotland Scottish Borders Wilsons Tales Scots History British History Folk Lore Legend Myth

DAVID-NEEL ALEXANDRA

Initiations and Initiates in Tibet

London, Rider. 1958, Second Revised Enlarged. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. black papered boards, price-clipped dust jacket. minor tape stain to endpapers, bookseller stamp to end paper. authorised trsl by Frank Rothwell , This edition has extra material to the 1931 original, 224 pp , some faint foxing to page edges. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 011690

Catalogue: Anthropology Mythology, Sociology

Keywords: Tibet Buddhist Travel Exploration Tantra Metaphysics Occult Mysticism Tibetan

CUNNINGHAM ALLAN

Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry

London, George Routledge. 1887, First Thus. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. (500 gram rate) plain olive cloth lightly rubbed or handling soiled, remains of title label at head of spine, white ink number '56' to spine ( this being part 56 of Morleys Universal Library ), uncut edges, copy shows some age, 288pp. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 007880

Catalogue: Anthropology Mythology, Sociology

Keywords: Morleys Universal Library British Folk Lore Customs Heritage Ancestral Heritage Aryan White European Culture

NAKANO ANN

Broken Canoe, conversations and observations in Micronesia

St lucia, University Queensland Press. 1983, First Edition. (ISBN: 0702216844) Hard Cover, 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. Ill.: Tim Porter. VG and tidy, colour photos, small nick at top right of lower DW edge taped. 289pp heavy may incur higher shipping. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 013350

Catalogue: Anthropology Mythology, Sociology

Keywords: Polynesia Micronesia South Pacific Anthropology Sociology Marshall Truk Kwajalein Ebeye Yap Palau Ponape 0702216844 Tim Porter

FORBES ANNA

Unbeaten Tracks in Islands of the Far East Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the 1880s

Singapore, Oxford University Press. 1991, reprint. (ISBN: 019588857X) Soft Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) near fine, xii 305pp + folding map, facsimile of original. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 007416

Catalogue: Anthropology Mythology, Sociology

Keywords: Anthropology Sociology Java Timor New Guinea History Ethnology 019588857x

PAUWELS & BERGIER

The Eternal Man

London, Souvenir. 1972, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. first English edition, DW edge rubbed with short tears to corners etc, unclipped. 246pp + plates, interesting look at ancient technology and cultures and theories on human evolution. Interesting peice on Celtic fairy lore, in similar vein to von Daniken and others who scoff at scientific theories of the age of human civilisation etc. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 013281

Catalogue: Anthropology Mythology, Sociology

Keywords: Occult New Age Mysteries Cosmology Evolution Earth Sciences Prehistory Daniken

DEAN BETH & VICTOR CARELL

Dust for the Dancers

Sydney, Ure Smith. 1955, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. red cloth minimal rubbing to bottom edge, map end papers, photograph of Beth Dean as she appearedin the ballet 'Corroberee' before Queen Elizabeth. this has been cut from a magazine and taped to the page facing the half title, there is a little tape residue but the tape has been removed and the picture tipped in. 214pp + plates in colour and black and white. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on the tite page underneath their names. They spent time living with aborigines and then staged a ballet based on what they had learned. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by Author.

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Book number: 000433

Catalogue: Anthropology Mythology, Sociology

Keywords: Aboriginal Australia Corroboree Dance Australian Aborigines

RICHARDSON BOYCE

Strangers Devour the Land, a Chronicle of the Assault Upon the Last Coherent Hunting Culture in North America, the Cree Indians of Quebec

New York, Knopf. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0394498380) Quarter cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. price clipped dust jacket with handling wear and soiling, small stain top corner of rear dust jacket panel, small stain at foot of upper board, map endpapers, xxi, 343+plates + xiii pp index. Good/Good.

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Book number: 008395

Catalogue: Anthropology Mythology, Sociology

Keywords: Cree Indians James Bay Region Ontario Quebec Indigenous Hunting Ecology North American Indian 0394498380

EVANS. G. BRAMWELL

A Romany on the Trail

London, Epworth press. 1949, reprint. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ill.: G. K. Evens. (500 gram rate) unclipped DW has sunfaded spine with loss to tail, edges rubbed, some foxing to closed edges and endpapers, tidy copy of thirteenth impression, 172pp + plates, illustrations in line also, British Gypsy. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 009913

Catalogue: Anthropology Mythology, Sociology

Keywords: Gypsies Gypsys Romany Tinkers Folklore Travellers Romanies British European G.K. Evens

BATES BRIAN

The Way of Wyrd, Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer

London, Book Club Associates. 1985, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. (500 gram rate) near fine in same unclipped DW with slightest rubbing to corners, small pen name to fep otherwise very clean copy, along similar lines to carlos castaneda, the author has used his University researches into Anglo-Saxon pagan magic and myth to write a fictional account of the methods of a pagan Anglo-Saxon shaman, encountering a christian missionary and drawing him into the Web of Wyrd, much to interest pagan practitioners, 208pp includes bibliography. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 003376

Catalogue: Anthropology Mythology, Sociology

Keywords: Anglo Saxon Pagan Asatru Asatruar Paganism Occult Fiction Castaneda Aryan Teutonic Folk Magic Witchcraft Shamanism

MALINOWSKI BRONISLAW

Freedom and Civilization

London, George Allen & Unwin. 1947, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. unclipped dust jacket sunned and with some closed tears, book tidy but has numerous annotations and some undelining, name to fep, xiv 338pp. Good/Good.

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Book number: 007321

Catalogue: Anthropology Mythology, Sociology

Keywords: Anthropology Philosophy Psychology Sociology Politics

CLEMEN CARL

Religions of the World Their Nature and Their History ( A. C. Hanlon's Copy )

London, Harrap. 1931, First Edition. Cloth, 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. large book, red cloth, spine faded a little, wear to head and tail, bookplate to paste down of Ronald Holloway, name to fep of A C Hanlon, the famous New Zealand Q. C. Book internally tidy, xiv 482pp + plates, minor aging or foxing mainly to prelims and closed edges, Comparative Religion including the Mythology of the Ancient Babylonian Egyptian Chinese Indian Persian Greek Roman Celtic Teutonic Slavic Japanese and Hebrew cultures as well as Buddhism Christianity and Islam. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005612

Catalogue: Anthropology Mythology, Sociology

Keywords: Comparative Religion Mythology Ancient History Ethnology Babylonian Egyptian Chinese Indian Persian Greek Roman Celtic Teutonic Slavic Japanese Norse Hebrew Jewish Buddhism Christianity Islam Muslim History

COCO CARLA

Secrets of the Harem

New York, Vendome Press. 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780865659966) Soft Cover, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 191pp near as new, well illustrated in full colour from Victorian masters as well as Turkish sources. photos od actual seraglios etc. much information on all aspects of the Ottoman harem and associated themes. (2kg rate). Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 011763

Catalogue: Anthropology Mythology, Sociology

Keywords: Turkey History Ottoman Empire Harem Seraglio Art Eunuch 9780865659966