MAMBU A Melanesian Millennium by BURRIDGE, Kenelm

Londion: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1960. Harcover, russet cloth bodly lettered in silver on spine, in price-clipped dust-jacket. 296pp., Brief Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with 2-color line frontispiece, 16 half-tone photographsic plates and 5 line illustrations in the text. First British edition. This copy from the Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. Library with their stamp on title-page and in lower margin of page 101, as well as on top edge of bulked sheets,, no other marks. An important and early anthropoliogical study of a little known phenomenon. The title is taken from the given name of a native New Guinean who started the cargo cult, circa 1935. Similar to other messianic movements, Burridge's first hand account is a scholarly examination of the religious, political, and economic aspects which make up the cult. A clean, square, unmarked copy [but for Harcourt stamps mentioned above]. Dust-jacket chipped and worn overall. A very good copy in a good dust-jacket. . First Edition.… Read More

London, Methuen & Co., 1960.. 8vo. xxiv+296pp. Original boards in dustwrapper. Colour and black and white illustrations; a near fine copy. . First edition. Cargo cults in New Guinea . From the Library of Australian scholar and academic, Dorothy Crozier with her signature,

Methuen. Very Good. . 1960, with dustjacket, clean copy, Professional booksellers since 1981 . 1960. Hardcover.

Princeton Univ Pr, 2014. Paperback. New. revised edition. 296 pages. 9.10x6.10x1.00 inches.