Immortal Eries by Vietzen, Raymond C - 1945

xviii+110 pages with 40 plates including frontispiece (many folding), figures and selected bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers with deckle edges. Contribution from Museum of the American Indian Volume VI. From the library of George M Foster. First edition. This work of Mexican Turquoise Mosaics was produced for the opening to the Museum of the American, Indian, Heye Foundation, the only institution devoted exclusively to the study of the aboriginal American peoples ever established; and the International Congress of Americanists to be held at Rio de Janerio of that year. George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300… Read More

2 volumes: 260 pages with maps (some folding), illustrations, plates (some in color) and figures; 253 pages with maps, tables, illustrations, figures, plates, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7 1/4") volume one rebound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and original wrappers bound in; volume 2 bound in original wrappers. Inscribed to Professor George M Foster. Copy 244 of 1000 copies issued. First edition.A mining engineer turned ethnologist, the author has done a much needed service by studying in anthropological terms an isolated region inhabited by mestizos. As the method was extensive rather than intensive, the data are mostly in the realm of material culture and linguistics. This work covers all aspects of the area surveyed, from the geography, climate, indigenous peoples, their economics as well as the history. This includes language, the archaeology of the region and a survey of even some potential sites. A scarce work on this subject.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in… Read More

Hutchinson. London. 1929. First edition. Large 8vo. 288pp. Photo frontis., 63 further plates, text illus., folding map. Original red cloth, sunned to spine, corners bumped. Some minor spotting/foxing. "With the Publisher’s Compliments" lightly stamped to title page.

Owen Rutter (1889-1944) FRGS, FRAI, Member of the Athenaeum Club, travel writer, North Borneo Civil Service, editor of the Balkan News, partner in the Golden Cockerel Press.

Chunghwa Post, 2004. Hardcover. Used- Fine condition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows very light shelf wear. All stamps and postcards are included in the book. The plastic holders for the postcards on pg. 17-23 are coming slightly unglued. No markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Blending science, sociology, and personal experience, this book is an exploration into how hunger works. It is inscribed and autographed by the author.

Chicago: Center for Urban Policy/Loyola University, 1980. First Edition, first printing. Original edition, precedes the 1986 reprint. Printed wrappers. Published Chicago: Center for Urban Policy/Loyola University, 1980. 8vo., v+222 pp. Plain cream wrappers with front printed in brown. A near fine copy.. 1st. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo..

305 pages with illustrations, tables (some fold out), diagrams, maps (some fold out) and figures. Small quarto (10 1/4" x 7 1/4") issued in wrappers. INAH Archeology Series. First edition.Contents: Los juegos de pelota en las Tierras Bajas Mayas del Norte by Ruben Maldonado C, Edward B Kurjack and Merle Green Robertson; Las turquesas de un lago by Angelina Marcias Goytia and Katina Vackimes Serret; Una sobrevista del patron de asentamiento de Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico by Loraine A Fletcher, Jacinto May Hau, Lynda M Florey Folan and William J Folan; Sistemas constructivos en Tula arqueologica by Noemi Castillo Tejero; Material arqueologico encontrado en una parte de la cimentacion del nuevo Museo Nacional de Antropologia by Francisco Gonzalez Rul; La Cultura Tlaxco o Senorio de Tliliuquitepec en el norte de Tlaxcala by Angel Garcia Cook and B Leonor Merino Carrion; Los tlatelolcas prehispanicos, origen y cultura by Roberto Garcia Moll, Patricia Ochoa Castillo y Marcela Salas Cuesta; Los sitios… Read More

New Delhi: Gyan Publishing House, 1998. Reprint of the 1930 edition. Hardcover. Very good. 16 volumes. Shipment of second, third, etc. items at very low prices. Check our full inventory!

First edition. Chapman and Hall. London. 1887. 8vo. vii, 343pp. 16pp publisher's catalogue dated 1893. Frontispiece map. Musical notation p328-330. Original cloth, gilt, blind stamped decoration to covers. Floral endpapers. Hinges a little tender. Some light spotting to prelims and catalogue. Light edge wear and fraying to head of spine. Signature dated 1909 to half title.

Alfred Burdon Ellis (1852 – 1894) British Army officer and ethnographer.

NEW ~ 644pp. Brief preface by Zacarias Marquez Terrazas, Departamento de Investigacion Historica de la Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua, 2010. David Brambila, S.J. colaboracion de Jose Vergara Bianchi, S.F. Preface to first ed. Norogachi, 1953. Eighty chapters with an appendix.