Savage Civilisation

London, Victor Gollancz, 1937. Original blue cloth. With maps (1 folding), illustrations and photographic illustrations. 461 pp.Tom Harnett Harrisson (1911 - 1976) was the officially ornithologist of the Oxford expedition to the New Hebrides. When the rest of the Oxford party left Santo Island for home in 1934, Harrisson got to Malekula, Vanuatu, where cannibalism was still widespread.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, , 1937. First edition, first impression. The publisher's archive copy with small pencil mark to the jacket front panel. Savage Civilisation was the future founder of Mass-Observation's first best-seller, in which he defended the way of life of the cannibals of the New Hebrides and their rights to their own land. "Harrisson's fourth Oxford… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1937. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. A first edition, first impression of this work combining history, ethnography and travel account, set in Vanuatu, by the polymath Tom Harrisson. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated with a frontispiece, thirty-one plates, numerous… Read more about this item

London, Victor Gollancz, 1937. 8vo. Original blue cloth with illustrated dust-wrapper; pp. 461, [3], plates after photographs, illustrations in the text after drawings, fold-out map at rear; cloth a little dulled, wrapper with small marginal flaw; title and following leaf a bit spotted due to offsetting from frontispiece; a good copy in the rarely seen dust-wrapper. Scarce first… Read more about this item

London: Gollancz, 1937 8vo. 461pp. 38 plates, 37 illustrations, 9 maps, biblio. index. An ethnological account of the New Hebrides. First published January 1937, Second impression April 1937. A good copy of the first edition in the publisher's dark blue cloth. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and… Read more about this item

Left Book Club Edition, 1937. Softcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Left Book Club Edition 1937. Softcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. Worn cover.

Victor Gollancz. good. . 1937 3rd imp, Left Book Club edition, some wear to covers, head of spine chipped, feint foxing & toning to endpaper, no markings, binding tight, Professional booksellers since 1981 . 1937. Paperback.

Left Book Club, 1937. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 1937 first edition, third impression hardback in good condition. A little foxing and light marking to page edges. No other marks, clean and bright, tight binding. The orange card covers have a little wrinkling to spine and a few small marks, no… Read more about this item