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Science 1971 Washington, 1971 Very good issued in wrappers 1st Wrappers 4to 771-779p Edge wear. Volume 173, number 3999.. Soft cover.

85-106 pages with tables and cited references. Quarto (11" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Current Anthropology Volume 27, Number 4 complete issue. First edition. A review of recent work in economic anthropology finds three competing approaches: decision theory, culturalism, and neo-Marxism. These approaches are tested with data on four dimensions of the cash sale and barter of fish on Lake Titicaca, Peru. The first is somewhat more successful, although the others also explain some data. Comparisons are drawn with barter and cash sale elsewhere in the Andes. Condition: Light edge wear, corners bumped else very good.

vii+328 pages with 35 plates, charts, tables, illustrations, figures and maps. Royal octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Anthropological Papers of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan number 41. First edition. This work represents an attempt to interpret some aspects of the pre-history of the basin of northern Lake Michigan, especially in its western portions. Condition: Previous owner's name on front wrapper and title page, corners bumped, spine sunned else a very good copy.

Pages clean, binding tight. Appears unread/unused.

387-400 pages. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Asian Studies Volume XXII, Number 4 complete issue. First edition. Contents: The Social and Political Philosophy of the Shih-chi by Robert B Crawford; Zen Buddhism and Muromachi Art by Ichiro Ishida, translated by Delmer M Brown; Japanese Colonial Development Policy in Taiwan, 185-1906 by Chang Han-Yu and Ramon H Myers; Thai-American Relations in World War II by James V Martin, Jr. Condition: Spine heal bumped, edge wear, corners bumped, rubbed and creased else very good.

iv+95 pages with map and tables. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. National Museum of Canada Bulletin number 195. First edition. The following study is a modified version of the author's doctoral dissertation presented to the Graduate Committee of the University of New Mexico. The study is based on field-work conducted amon the Mistassini Indians during 1953-4 and on library research. The ethnographic data collected in the field form the basis for the description of the contemporary situation among the Mistassini. Published sources were used to supplement this information and to gain historical depth. Since there is a paucity o information regarding the Mistassini, it was necessary to use data from surrounding groups. Condition: Corners bumped, old sticker stain on front wrapper else a very good copy.

University Microfilms, Inc. 1966 Ann Arbor, 1966 Very good lacking dust wrapper Reprint Hardbound Small Octavio 184p Underlining on pages 103-105, previous owners name on front end paper, notes on back end paper.. Hardcover.

337-366 pages with cited references. Quarto (11" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Current Anthropology Volume 31, Number 4 complete issue. First edition. Condition: Light edge wear, corners bumped and rubbed else very good.

388 pages with pictorial title, illustrations, figures, plates (some in color) and index. Quarto (10 3/4" x 8") bound in original pictorial wrappers. The origins of the present book lie in the work Julia Berrall did on her History of Flower Arrangement, for she realized that she could not discuss historical arrangements without detailed knowledge of which flowers grew in the gardens of which countries and at which periods. As she studied further her interest in creased, and, visiting many of the famous and beautiful gardens described in this book, she found much new material to enrich her earlier researches. Condition: Previous owner's name to front wrapper verso, edge wear, corners bumped else about very good.

xi+147 pages with maps, figures, charts, tables, illustrations, appendices, bibliography and index. Quarter (11 1/4" x 8 3/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. First edition. The Ancestral Puebloans possessed a complex network that stretched across the Colorado Plateau linking hundreds of communities and population centers. They held a distinct knowledge of celestial sciences that found form in their architecture. The Kiva, a congregational space that was used for ceremonial purposes chiefly, were an integral part of this ancient peoples community structure. Light edge wear else a near fine copy issued without jacket.

xii+261 pages with numerous tables, text-figures and plates, with 4 plans in endpocket. Quarto (11 3/4" x 9") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. First edition. Felsch's book start with a short but illuminating report on the history of the excavation in the site of Kastro Tigani. The first dit at the hill of Kastro dates back to 1928-1930 when W Wredes uncovered prehistoric material, mainly pottery, from areas described as rubbish pits. The pottery was studied by Robert Heidenreich, who suggested that the course, slipped, burnished, incised, and patterned-burnished wares belonged to the Early Bronze Age and are closely related to Troy I sequence. This view was later supported by W Butler and A Furness. Milojcic in Samos I (1961) was the first to suggest convincingly that the Tigani material may belong to a pre-Troy I date, contemporary with the Aegean Late Neolithic. Condition: Corners bumped, a scratch to back board, some pencil marginalia and check… Read More

xviii+174+[7 ad] pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with red lettering to spine and cover in original publisher's jacket. (Firsts 31) First edition. The last Philo Vance was published posthumously from the manuscript of a draft that was completed shortly before Wright's death. Maxwell Perkins, declined to change anything in it and published it as he found it. As a result, the book is quite short, less than half the length of the early titles. The classic format was followed: the index card and the stamping are in red and the book is bound in black cloth. It was priced at $1.75, the only one of the books not priced at $2.00. The print run was small. With exception of Benson and perhaps the Canary, this is the most elusive of the Vance titles. The Winter Murder Case (1939) is a Philo Vance novella that S. S. Van Dine intended to expand into his twelfth full-length book, a project cut short by his death. The Winter Murder Case seems especially similar to the B… Read More

388+[2 ad] pages with frontispiece and figures. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with Art-Deco style printing in cream lettering to spine and cover with "Scribner's seal" appearing at the bottom of the copyright page and same year is listed to title and copyright page in original jacket. (Firsts, volume 14, Number 9 page 29) First edition, first state. with matching dates on title and copyright pages.The Greene Murder Case is a 1928 mystery novel by S S Van Dine. It focuses on the murders, one by one, of members of the wealthy and contentious Greene family. This is the third in the series of Philo Vance whodunits and the first of the Vance books not inspired by a real-life crime.Philo Vance takes a hand when, one evening, a daughter of the Greene family is shot to death and another one is wounded. The family comprises two sons and three daughters (the youngest, Ada, is adopted) under the rule of their mother, a bedridden invalid who spends her days feeling… Read More

viii+349+[3 ad] pages with illustrations one folding. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with Art-Deco style printing in blue lettering to spine and cover with "Scribner's seal" appearing at the bottom of the copyright page and same year is listed to title and copyright page in original jacket which the index card is printed with a teal background. Early photograph of the author laid in. (Firsts, volume 14, Number 9 page 29) First edition Inscribed by the author and dated 1929. The Bishop Murder Case is not as common and The Green Murder Case. The fourth title in the series. The Bishop Murder Case (1928) is the fourth in a series of mystery novels by S. S. Van Dine about fictional detective Philo Vance The detective solves a mystery built around a nursery rhyme. The Bishop Murder Case is believed to be the first nursery-rhyme mystery book.The story involves a series of murders taking place in a wealthy neighborhood of New York City. The first murder, of a Mr.… Read More

viii+349+[3 ad] pages with fold out illustration. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with blue lettering to spine and cover. First edition.Wright wrote as a critic and journalist until 1923, when he became ill from what was given out as overwork, but was in reality a secret drug addiction, according to John Loughery's biography. His doctor confined him to bed (supposedly because of a heart ailment, but actually because of a cocaine addiction) for more than two years. In frustration and boredom, he began collecting and studying thousands of volumes of crime and detection. In 1926 this paid off with the publication of his first S. S. Van Dine novel, The Benson Murder Case. Wright took his pseudonym from the abbreviation of "steamship" and from Van Dine, which he claimed was an old family name. Wright wrote a series of short stories for Warner Brothers film studio in the early 1930's. These stories were used as the basis for a series of 12 short films, each around 20… Read More

332+[viii ad] pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's gilt-stamped black cloth in original jacket. Inscription to front end paper. (Firsts Volume 14, number 9 page 31) First edition. Garden marked the return to the original design for the dust wrappers, without any graphics added to the standard index card layout. Here the card is in gold and the front and back panels, and the front and spine of the book's cover are also stamped in gold. Floyd, the son of Professor Garden, invites his socialite friends to the rooftop garden of his father's New York penthouse to listen to the outcome of horse races. Detective Philo Vance receives an anonymous telephone message inviting him to one of Floyd's gatherings. On that particular night, Floyd's best friend has placed an enormous bet on a horse named Equanimity. Once it is announced that Equanimity has lost the race, a gunshot is heard and Floyd's friend is found dead of a gunshot wound. Though initially thought to be a suicide,… Read More

204-221 pages with Bibliography. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume 49, number 2 complete issue. First edition.

There is a general opinion, supported by some of the older authors and by much of the modern ethnological data, that the type of Indian warfare as evidenced in northeastern America in the eighteenth century is not an integral part of the aboriginal culture pattern. This view takes the position that warfare of extermination in the area of stress had its roots in abnormal conditions produced by the fur trade and by intensive rivalry of various European nations for domination. On the other hand, some of the earliest accounts of this area describe warlike activities or raids, based upon aboriginal traditions, prior to any European influence. The purpose of this paper is to present an account of the warfare of the period previous to the development of the fur trade and the struggle for supremacy between France and England, and to attempt to establish… Read More

xiv+316 pages with tables, maps, glossary, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's green cloth with silver lettering to spine and pictorial to cover. First edition. With the rapid expansion of an international wool market in the 19th century, sheep raising and the wool trade became the most lucrative businesses in Argentina from the 1840s to the 1880s. Sabato focuses on the link between agrarian and mercantile activity to analyze the way in which capitalism took shape in 19th century Argentina Condition: Near fine.

369-382 pages with diagrams, charts, figures, tables, photographs and tables. Quarto (10" x 7") bound in original publisher's wrappers. American Antiquity Volume 37, number 3 complete issue. First edition. A preliminary study of the form and fracture patterns of sheep metatarsals from Jaguar Cave is used to illustrate a method for the quantitative analysis of primitive bone fracturing techniques. Criteria of form, fracture, and function are defined and weighted, on the basis of experiments with green bone, and the aid of computers is enlisted to process the archaeological specimens via these criteria. The data is searched for: a. the definition of a technique of intentional fracture, b. the formation of classes of intentionally fractured and retouched bone fragments, and c. the identification of statistically perfect tools and not-tools, determined by higher or lower correlations of weighted sums. Conclusions are drawn from the analysis of the Jaguar Cave bone and bone from other early collections.… Read More

xiv+218 pages with diagrams, illustrations, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. In this work, the artist Jyoti Sahi offers the general reader a little bestiary of Indian symbols. These range from the images and tales of Siva and Visnu that one meets in today's standard accounts of Hindu mythology. Condition: Edge wear, corners bumped else about very good.