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Last Of The Medicine Men (SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR)
by Allen, Benedict
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0563551216
- ISBN 13
- 9780563551218
- Seller
-
Margate, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: BBC, 2000. NrF/NrF. First edition, first printing in d/w not price clipped. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on title-page. Inscription reads, 'For ---/Best wishes/from Bendict'. Profusely illustrated with photographs. A well-researched and authoritative study of four diverse traditions of medicine men or 'witch doctors': the vodou priests of Haiti; the rainforest healers of Siberut Island, Indonesia; shamanic drummers in Siberia; pilgrims who eat an hallucinogenic cactus in Mexico. With Bibliography and Index. Light age tanning to edges of pages; else a near fine copy, in a near fine d/w, of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.. Presentation Copy Inscribed And Signed. First Edition, First Printing. Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Greystone Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12466
- Title
- Last Of The Medicine Men (SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR)
- Author
- Allen, Benedict
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0563551216
- ISBN 13
- 9780563551218
- Publisher
- BBC
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Signed. Autographed. Autobiography. Biography. Tribal Studies. Tribal Research. Ethnicity. Ethnic. Ethnic Studies. Ethnic Research. Ethnology. Travel. Travel Writers. Society. Tribal Society. Society. Social Sciences. Sociology. History. Culture. Cultural
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Sociology; Medical; Theology;
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About the Seller
Greystone Books
Biblio member since 2005
Margate
About Greystone Books
Greystone Books is situated in Kent, England. We have been selling on the internet since 1999. We sell collectable books and try to stock obscure and scare non-fiction titles.
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