Search Results: Culture, Ethnicity, Language from edburynbooks

NY: Scribners Sons, 1936. Hardcover in pale green cloth boards with black titling, no jacket.. Good in original boards, Berkely Library discard else unmarked, some stains on front board, worn spine ends.. Illustrated classic description of cowboy life. A clean tight copy except for its library markings, a somewhat worn veteran but still kicking. 6-3/4 x 9-1/4, 251 pp, numerous b/w illustrations.

New York: Mentor Bks, 1961. 8th printing. MM Paperback in color illus wraps.. Veru Good unmarked bright tight.. Archaeologicl history of people who created an intricate culture in primitive Mexico. 224 pp, indec, chronology, bibliogrphy, b/w photos & dwgs.

New York: Newmarket Press, 1991. First Printing.. Hardcover in navy cloth boards w gilt titling, in color photo jacket.. Good unmarked, small scar on front board, faint dampstain at top edge; in Good bright unclipped jacket w small scar on front.. A retelling for juvenile readers of the story in the acclaimed film of the same name starring Kevin Costner. Solid clean tight nice reading copy. 8-3/4 x 11-1/4, 60 pp, 68 color photos, green endpapers.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1976. 1st printing.. Oversize Hardcover in brown cloth boards w gilt spine titling, no jacket.. VeryGood unmarked w light wear, light stains to boards.. Clean copy in sound binding, 1st printing. No jacket. 10 x 13-1/4, 303 pp, sepia photos, glossy sepia plates.

NY: Crowell, 1976. 1st prntg. HC, no dj; Very Good w some cover stains.. Over 175 incomparable Curtis photographs in sepia as well as some rare pictures of Curtis himself in the field from family collections. 10x13. Bonus: Eight-page10x13 prospectus for another Curtis book, with 10 photos.

NY: Harper Paperbacks, 1993/1995. 5th printing.. Trade Paperback in white wraps w red titling.. VeryGood.. Provocative bestseller that shows how the entertainment industry has broken faith with its audience. Signed by author on title page and also with inside cover inscription, With warm regards, M Medved. 5-1/2 x 8, 386 pp, index, notes.

Patonga Australia: Harper-MacRae Publ, 1992. Presumed 1st.. Oversize Hardcover in green cloth boards w stamped gilt titling, in green jacket w color map inset.. Fine unmarked in Near Fine jacket.. Exciting book of essays and photographs describing the 360 World Heritage sites, the most special places on earth. Excellent bright crisp copy. 9-1/2 x 12-1/2, 450 pp, color photos, map ep.

NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1977. 1st edition/1st printing.. Oversize Hardcover in gray stamped boards, in purple illus jacket w siler titling.. Fine unmarked in VeryGood unclipped bright jacket w light edgewear, faint rubbing.. Charmingly irreverent study demonstrates that fashion mirror society*s illusions about itself. With 700 illustrations (120 in color) this is a fascinating look at humankind in drag. Solid clean bright copy of 1st printing. 9-3/4 x 12-1/4, 400 pp, index, b/w photos, color illus, gray endpapers.

MM Co: Lees Summit MO, 1991. First Thus.. Trade Paperback in pale yellow illus wraps.. VeryGood unmarked; edgewear at bottom of spine only.. Original self-published edition. Author inscrition on title page reads, To Peter, With love from Marlo and the Outback nation. Know that we love you & support you on the journey. Marlo. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4, 165 pp, b/w dwgs.

New York: Viking Press, 1964, 1965.. 2nd printing.. Hardcover in blue cloth boards, in color jacket... VeryGood ex-library copy w a few underlines, in VeryGood unclipped jacket in Brodart... Third volume in the series. Solid clean tight harcover reading copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2, 564 pp, index, notes, b/w illus, pictorial ep.

NY: Falstaff Press, 1934. 1316 of limited edition. HC; Good with some spine wear.. after the originals from Scientific Explorations, Field Studies and Museum Archives portraying intimate rites and customs, racial types of beauty, phenomena of childbirth, freaks, ethnic mutilations and many other curiousities of the erotic life of savage and civilized races of mankind. Privately Issued. 6.5x10.

Philadelphia: Curtis Publ, 1968. Oversize magazine in color photo wraps (The Truth About Sex Education), saddle-stapled.. VeryGood unmarked, small scar where address label removed.. Articles include: Migraine (Joan Didion), I Intend to Be Wooed (Stuart Alsop), Sex Invades the Schoolhouse (Kobler), Julie Andrews the Sound of More Music, George Wallace the Angry Mans Candidate, All the Beautiful Women (Joan Carol Oates), more. 10-3/4 x 13-1/4, 72 pp, b/w & color photos, ads.

Albany NY: Students of Albany High School, Class of 1928, 1928. Black pebbled flexcover w embossed titling & decoration, no jacket.. Fair-Good w some shelfwear, scribbles on some pages but mostly clean.. Illustrated high school yearbook from the late 1920s. Clean tight rare piece of 20th-century American folk history. 8 x 11, 47 + 47 pp, b/w photos, ads.

Washington DC: National Geograhic Society, 1974, 1979. 2nd printing.. Oversize Hardcover in color patterned tweed cloth boards w black leatherette spine, in color photo jacket.. Fine except for owner name on insides of endpapers else unmarked, in Fine jacket.. Over 440 illustrations enrich this vivid account of the American Indian. Very nice bright tight copy. Laid-in are: publishers original promotional offering for this book, 1984 newspaper article about Dennis Banks, 1986 newspaper article about Geronomo ancestor. Includes 32 x 37 folded color cultural map in rear pocket. 9-1/4 x 10-1/4, 399 pp, index, tribal supplement, b/w & color photos & illus, brick endpapers, large folded color illus map in rear envelope.

Pleasantville NY: Readers Digest Assoc, 1978, 1987. 9th printing.. Oversize Hardcover in illus boards, no jacket.. Fine unmarked.. Mint copy of a great reference book for your home library at great price. 8-3/4 x 11-1/4, 320 pp, index, b/w & color illus throughout.

Routlege&KeganPaul: London, 1982. HC, dj; Fine in VG jacket. an essential reference and guide for the professional genealogist and the interested amateur alike.