Search Results: Titles starting with K from Sad Paradise Books

South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1973. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. A quite neat, very sound copy. Originally published as 'The Mammals Of Australia Volume II' (1863), this book retains Gould's text together with Dixon's additional observations. The slipcase is bumped and worn, but the book itself is in very good order, and all the plates are in excellent condition. Folio in original black illustrated boards with white title to spine in slipcase. 152 pages including indices, references cited, 70 full-page magnificent colour reproductions of plates by Gould accompanied by detailed descriptions of specific species, habitat and habits. A classic.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1975. First edition. Paperback. Fine. A very tight bright copy of the first softcover edition. Octavo illustrated stiff card binding, 213 pages including tables, charts, appendixes, notes, index. The standard work on the subject; the first book-length examination of Balinese kinship in English and an important theoretical analysis of the central ethnographic concept of 'kinship system'. A lovely copy. .