Flesh and blood A history of the cannibal complex by REAY TANNAHILL ISBN 13: 9780880292467

Dorset Press, 1988-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good.

New York: Dorset Press, 1988. [xi] 209p., 20 b/w illus., dj.

Dorset Press, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/Good +. *** Hardcover in Very Good/Good + condition. Binding tight, pages clean. No previous owner names. Wear and small tears to edges of jacket, and sticker on back. ***

Dorset Press, 1988-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good in very good dust jacket. Binding is tight and pages are clean and unmarked. Jacket has a touch of shelfwear, some tanning, and a 1" tear to rear of jacket by spine.

US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st thus.[Originally published Stein&Day,1975.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to protected dw/dj but new fep.Colour pictorial upper wrap,detail taken from "The Last Judgement" by Hieronymous Bosch.Miniscule rubbing to head of dw/dj spine/backstrip and bottom front corner.Salmon-pink paper-covered boards with gilt letters to a purple cloth blind spine and plain white endpapers.Fore-edges near pristine as are the contents.US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,209pp includes 16pp b/w contemporary illus,10pp bibliography,notes and an index. Is cannibalism the oldest taboo in the world? By no means.Man has been eating his fellow man for over half a million years,and only in the last two thousand years has the practice ceased to be respectable.Tannahill,after many encounters (in the literary sense) with cannabilism while researching her book Food in History,has written the first book in English to cover every aspect of the subject.The survivors of the 1972 Andes… Read More