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Albuquerque NM:: University of New Mexico Press,, 1978.. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo in silver stamped gray cloth. 329 pages illustrated by graphs, drawings, maps. Part of the University's "School of American Research" series, the book collects a series of papers concerning the study of ancient societies by looking at the rubbish left by them. A clean, bright, soundly bound book but for a hint of extremity wear and a large receipt stamp from an organization. The jacket also shows min... more information

Washington:: Government Printing Office,, 1946-1948.. First editions. Hardcover. Thick hardback quartos in the original olive cloth with gilt stamped spine tittles. A very nice set of the first four of what would become seven volumes. Published under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology, the entire set comprises BAE's Bulletin 143. All volumes clean, soundly bound and unmarked. Volume 3 has lost some of the spine gilt but is still readable with effort. Minor extremity w... more information

New York:: Crown,, 1976.. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Quarto. 288 pages includes Acknowledgments, Bibliography and Index. As the subtitle suggests, this book surveys the people of the world and the societies that are merging into "civilized" from "primitive." Dr. Brain describes "primitive societies" as "those where life is organized in small units, where social relationships are of the personal, face-to-face kind where everyone knows everyone else and shares muc... more information

No place:: Rowman and Littlefield,, 1978.. None indicated. Hardcover. Hardback. Octavo, A clean bright book in red cloth. Owner name fep. ... more information

Ottawa:: F.A. Acland, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty,, 1922-25.. First Edition. Hardcover. Original parts of all six volumes, bound in three books, blue buckram. All volumes complete. Pagination is by part, but about 500, 500 and 350 pages respectively, illustrated with photographs, plates, fold out maps. The anthropological part of an extensive scientific survey of Northern Canada undertaken by the Canadian Government. This includes all the covers of the various parts which were publ... more information

St. Louis:: C.V. Mosby,, 1919.. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardback quarto, a bit over 10 inches tall, in gilt stamped blue coth. 607 pages illustrated with 372 drawings, photos, etc. A scholarly study that delivers on its promise. Inside clean and bright, hinges somewhat shaken but intact. There is light wear to extremities with a little loss of surface color at foot of spine. ... more information

New York:: Delacorte,, 1982.. Book Club. Jacket has minor edge chipping and a small tear. ... more information