Tristes Tropiques First American Edition by Levi-Strauss, Claude; Weightman, John and Doreen (translator) - 1974

New York: Harper & Row, 1973. 1st Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo. 531 pp. Spine slightly cocked, head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped, page corners lightly bumped. Jacket sunned at spine, rubbed, edgeworn, bumped at edges and folds, with small piece missing at heel of spine panel, tips of flap corners clipped front and rear. First printing.

New York: Harper & Row, 1969. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. VOLUME ONE ONLY! Blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 387pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has shelfwear to edges of boards and spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but top edge has faint foxing and remainder mark. DJ has wear to spine ends and corners, rubbing and toning, now handsome in archival mylar wrap.

New York: Atheneum, 1984. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover. Spine lightly sunned. Otherwise clean, tight, and completely unmarked. A sound and handsome copy..

New York: Harper & Row, 1973. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. vol. 2 only, octavo, blue and white cloth boards in corner(s) clipped dust jacket, book and jacket are in very good condition, jacket shows mild edgewear and discolorization to the spine, book shows mild wear to boards and previous, owner's signature on the front flyleaf, 512pp.

Penguin 1992. Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

New York, Evanston, San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1973. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 512 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Slight shelf wear with previous bookshop's small sticker to the front with mildly sunned spine, small closed chip to rear head edge and lightly rubbed edges. Boards have slight whitish spotting, mild lean to the spine and minor edge wear. Text block has moderate age toning to the edges with faint offsetting to the end papers. Illustrated. First US Edition. 1370427. FP New Rockville Stock.

New York: Atheneum. Very Good+ in Fine dust jacket. 1974. First US Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 068910572x . A Very Good+ first American Edition/First Printing that is faded and discolored, housed in a Fine dust-jacket; Tristes Topiques is a book that was written by Levi-Strauss, Claude and it was translated by John and Doreen Weightman. The book is about the different ways that people express sadness.; 8vo; 425 pages .

London: Jonathan Cape, 1970 . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". Claude Levi-Strauss. The first thus of this translation of this ethnographical study which attempts to debunk many myths. First thus of The Raw and the Cooked by Claude Levi-Strauss in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. The first in a series, titled 'Introduction to a Science of Mythology', aiming to reduce and debunk basic myths about South America and its people. Translated from the French by Joan and Doreen Weightman. Levi-Strauss was a French ethnologist and anthropologist. His work is widely considered as key to the development of theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. Densely illustrated throughout the text and with four monochrome plates of photography by the author. Collated, complete.From the library of Lord Raglan, Fitzroy John Somerset. Raglan"s great-great-grandfather was Field Marshal Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan and hero of the Battle at Inkerman and… Read More