PRIMITIVE PEOPLES TODAY. by Weyer, Edward

Garden City, New York: Dolphin Books, 1961. AP2 - 1961. Paperback. Book hsa discoloration and very light shelf wear otherwise very good. In this book, the author describes fourteen archaic cultures which have in most cases completely escaped civilization.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

The Companion Book Club, 1964. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1964. No Edition Remarks. 288 pages. Illustrated dustjacket over burgundy cloth. Includes black & white plates. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Some pages are dog-earred. Binding is weak. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Spine has crushing to both ends. Book has forward lean. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing.

London: Hamish Hamilton. Good+; First Blank Page Torn. 1959. Hardback. 288 pages .

Crescent Books, Inc, New York, No date. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic and Maps. 1.4 kg.; (8) 9-288 pages, introduction by author, notes on author and photographers and index. The text is illustrated with 212 photographs, both colour and black and white and 14 maps. Brown coloured boards with silver embossed decoration to the front and rear panel and gilt titles to the backstrip. Minor rubbing to the book corners and backstrip corners. Faint foxing to the first few and last few pages of the book and light age toning of the internal text. Colour photographic dustwrapper, showing a Masai warrior white titles to the front panel and black titles to the backstrip. Rubbing to the dustwrapper edges and dustwrapper panels. There is a 0.25 " tear to the top left-hand corner of the rear dustwrapper panel with an associated creasing that runs the full width of the rear dustwrapper panel. Original bookseller's sticker still in situ, lower right-hand corner of the front… Read More

Uk: Hamish hamilton. Fair. Hardcover. 1959. 288 pages. cloth worn head & tail of spine .

Garden City, NY: Chanticleer Press/Houghton Mifflin, 1958. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW. Vintage 1958 First Edition,First Thus. Chocolate-brown linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. Illustrated DJ/VG w/nips, chips, closed tears to leading edges & faint creasings to front; under mylar. Anthropoloy. Monograph on pre-literate peoples of the world extant after World War II. Text by Edward Weyer, director of the Museum of Anthropology at the Univ of California in 1958, and illustrated with photographs. A study of tribal life including that of Eskimos, the Navajo Indians, the Lacandones & San Blas of Central America, the Head-shrinking Jivaros of South America, the Ovimbundu slave traders of Africa, the Hairy Ainus of Japan, and the Aruntas of the Australian desert. A chronicle of our fellow human brethren.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company. Hardcover. 1959. 4to 288pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W and Color Photographs. Neat printed bookplate on front pastedown. After an introuduction on the various primitive types and their status, the author devotes detailed chapters to fourteen tribes, including the Eskimos, the Navajo Indians, the Lacandones and the San Blas of Central America, the Jivaros of South America, the Bushmen of Africa, the Hairy Ainus of northern Japan, the Samoans of the Pacific, and the Aruntas of Australia .

London; Hamish Hamilton, 1959 Very good black cloth hardcover. No dj. 288p. includes index, 212 photographs and 14 maps. A4. Chapters include The Eskimos ; The Aleuts ; The Navahos ; The Locandones ; The San Blas ; The head-shrinking Jivaros ; The Camayuras ; The reindeer herding Lapps ; The Ovimbundu ; The Bushmen of South African deserts ; The hairy Ainus ; The Lolos ; The Aruntas ; The Samoans.