Search Results: Anthropology from Midway Used and Rare Books

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 24 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. xxviii 258pp. Name and subject index. Green cloth in dust jacket. Jacket flaps lightly toned. Nice copy. Collection of essays by various authors seperated into 4 subjects: Ideology and Action, Kinship and Gender, Culture Class and Ethnicity, and The Commonwealth Period. OCLC #: 19128690.

Springer, 2010. Hardcover. near fine. Quarto. 11" x 8 1/2". 214pp. Glossy pictorial boards. No markings. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series.

Cambridge University Press, 1989. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. 23.5 x 15 cm. Octavo. 263pp. Bound in glossy yellow boards. No jacket. Spine is sunned. Cambridge Studies in Biological Anthropology.

D.C.: Smithsonian, 1945. vg. 8vo, 232 pp. In wraps. Slight wear on spine, including a small chip at top. B/W illus. from photos and drawings. Errata slip laid in.

Academic Press, 1983. Hardcover. Near Fine. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 262 pages. Green cloth gold lettering. Toneing to the inside covers and endpapers.

Human Relations Area Files, 1972. second printing. Hard Cover. very good+. Quarto. 399pp.Tan cloth. Name of previous owner stamped on front free endpaper.

Franklin Lakes, N.J.: New Page Books / The Career Press Inc., 2007. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 23.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. 319pp. Red boards in dust jacket. Crease to front jacket flap.

D.C.: Smithsonian, 1933. g. 4to, 1220 pp. In wrps. Index. Cover has multiple small folds and tears. First few pages have some turned corners. Overall, good.

Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 528 pp. Bound in green cloth. Frontpiece and a few black and white illustrations in-text. Edges of one page are bumped. Fading to spine. Very good overall. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 194.

American Anthropological Assoc, 1955. Wraps. vg. 8vo. 265pp.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 24.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 656pp. Bound into 1/2 leather, marble boards, endpapers and foredges. This copy is lacking the fold-out "Ethnographic Tableau". The other chart "Illustrative of the Geographical distribution of Monkeys, in their relation to that of some Inferior Types of Men." and all 9 plates are present. Many other in-text illustration. This is the "regular paper ediiton". Rubbing to outer hinges and edges of boards. Scattered foxing throughout. One of "the most egregiously racist publications in the history of physical anthropology." Reference: Jeremy Norman's History of Medicine and Life Sciences #8825.

Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 431pp. Bound in glossy boards. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper and foredge. Light sun fading to spine lettering. Food and Nutrition in History and Anthropology Volume 10.

Texas A & M University Press, 2014. Hardcover. very good. Quarto. (28cm x 23cm) 669pp. Name and address of previous owner on front free endpaper.

D.C.: Smithsonian, 1959. vg. sm4to, 490 pp. Hardcover. Top/bottom spine bumped. Two fold-outs in fine shape.

Smithsonian, 1986. octavo 334pp. The Pintupi are a hunting-gathering people of Australia's Western Desert. They were among the last Aborigines to come into contact with white society. This book presents a comprehensive ethnographic interpretation of the ways in which Pintupi politics, cosmology, kinship systems, nomadic patterns and social valuers reinforce and sometimes contradict each other.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 24 x 15 cm. Octavo.288pp. 24 plates. Musical pieces. Bound in black cloth, rubbing to the edges of the boards. Chipping to head and tail of spine. Fading to spine lettering. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 38.