New York: Vintage Books, 1995. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Rear cover bumped.
xix, 331 pp. "Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine.....
New York: William A. Mercein, 1819. Revised Edition. Full-Leather.
1819 revised edition. Leather edges rubbed, ink names on front endpapers, pages foxed.
vii, 565 pp. 8vo. Full calf, red morocco spine label, gilt titles & double rule. A study of the various aspects (political, administrative, social, etc.) of classical Rome.....
Paris: . 1965. Soft Cover.
a few light smudges on front wrapper, ink stamp and pencil name on front flyleaf, faint stain.
185 pp. Text in French. Includes 97 figures, 16 black-and-white plates, 4 color plates, and a fold-out map. Collection L'Homme et Ses Origines [collection man and his origins].....
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. One inch tear on front jacket panel, bottom edge of rear jacket panel and top edge of jacket reverse taped, jacket rubbed with a few additions tears. Ink name on front free endpaper, pencil underlining.
xii, 388 pp.....
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., 1943. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. Front jacket joint heavily rubbed, jacket edges rubbed, jacket stained. Pencil name on front paste-down endpaper, newspaper clipping mounted on front free endpaper, page edges stained.
viii, 344 pp. Color frontispiece mirrors jacket art. Number 1 in.....
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges lightly worn.
xiii, 409 pp. The relentlessly self-promoting amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann took full credit for discovering Homer's Troy over one hundred years ago, and since then generations have thrilled to the tale of his ambitions.....
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. Trade Paperback.
Minor highlighting.
xii, 216 pp. "Global Sex is the first major work to take on the globalization of sexuality, examining the ways in which desire and pleasure—as well as ideas about gender, political power, and public health—are framed, shaped, or commodified.....
Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, 1832. Hard Cover.
Colloquial spine label added, front joint splitting, edges rubbed, light stain to base of a few pages, front and end matter lightly foxed.
153, [5] pp. 12mo. Black cloth spine, paper over boards. A history of the Delaware and Iroquois tribes. Woodcut.....
Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1969. Wallwork, Richard. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges bumped with a few minor tears to jacket spine head.
513 pp. 16 color plates, black-and-white photographs and illustrations. "An account o the history, art, and mythology of the Polynesian races..."
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1983. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Top of dust jacket worn.
285 pp. Tells the story of power, politics, and relations with Indians and white on the colonial frontier. In part, it is a familiar story of Indian wars, scalping, the fur trade, exploitation.....
New York: Crown Publishers, 2011. Prato, Rodica (map illustration); Palacios, Rafael (inset map). First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
x, 757 pp. "In this, the extraordinary conclusion of the ice-age epic series, Earth's Children®, Ayla, Jondalar, and their infant daughter, Jonayla, are living.....
New York: Crown Publishers, 1990. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing of 2001 reissue. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
760 pp. Map illustrated endpapers. "The best-selling author of the Earth's Children series continues the epic story of Ayla, the mythical heroine of Ice Age Europe. The Plains of.....
. 1918. Signed Copy. Stapled Binding.
Signed by author with inscription, "With the regards of." Wrappers lightly toned, wrappers and pages creased down the center.
Reprinted from the American Anthropologist (N.S.) Vol. 20, No. 1. January-March, 1918.
London: The Folio Society, 2013. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Includes publisher's slipcase. A few very minor scuffs to slipcase.
lviii, 540 pp. Color reproductions of historical illustrations, several regional maps precede text. This book presents the Persian Baburnama, a key primary source and the earliest record of Babur's memoirs. The translation.....
Ottawa: Musee National du Canada, 1957. Trade Paperback.
Inscribed to Hella Sachs and signed by author on title page. This volume was acquired from the personal library of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Edges rubbed.
xv, [1], 242 pp. French text. The title translates to 'Treasure of the Old Jesuits'.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. Hard Cover.
Jacket edges rubbed, half inch tear along top edge of rear jacket panel. Front board slightly bowed.
xx, 320 pp. Illustrated. ...reconstructs the history of the whole Jamestown world, and the English and Indian worlds from which it grew.--jacket.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. 9th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Ninth printing. Front cover corners curl slightly.
xi, 389 pp. Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence.....
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2000. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. Jacket edges worn.
xxxiii, 877 pp. Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about.....
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. Large Hardcover.
A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.
xv, 287 pp. "Argues that scenes found on late classic sculpture represent cave rituals performed by the Mayan elite and discusses the Mayan world view and the role caves played in it."
Buffalo, N.Y. Sophie C. Becker, 1904. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Boards lightly soiled, board corners lightly rubbed.
168 pp. CONTENTS: La Salle and the Griffon; The People of the Long House; Red Jacket, the Seneca Orator; Deh-hewamis, the White Squa of the Genesee; Buffalo Village; The.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Lacks jacket. Minor scuff on front board.
ix, [7], 383, [1], vii, [7] pp. 8vo. Dilmun was a land which stretched beyond the confines of Bahrain, as far north as Kuwait, and as far south as Saudi Arabia.....
New Haven: Associated Publishers of American Records, 1908. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.
Limited edition, #302 of an unspecified limitation.
vi, 194, [10] pp. Original green cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt. A history of the town led by the sachem of the Wampanoag Confederacy, who helped prevent the failure of.....
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Jacket spine stained, jacket edges rubbed and creased. Boards lightly soiled.
xii, 432 pp. The author interweaves his personal experiences in China with a discussion of the history, culture, and present situation of the Chinese.....
New York: Alden Brothers, Publishers, 1907. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Boards soiled, pencil name on front paste-down endpaper.
395 pp. Maroon cloth with gilt title on spine and front board, top edge gilt. CONTENTS: In Central New York; "People of the Long House"; Religious Beliefs; Councils.....
England: Barracuda Books Limited, 1975. Signed Copy. Large Hardcover.
Signed by author with inscription, "With best wishes." Front jacket flap clipped, jacket faintly toned.
147 pp. A history of Banbury, illustrated with black-and-white maps and illustrations.