Flesh and Blood: A History of the Cannibal Complex by Tannahill, Reay

Madison Books, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

UNKNO, 1975-01-01. hardcover. Good. 9x6x1.

New York: Stein and Day, 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover. Used; Good/Good. 1/2" tear in DJ; a bit of foxing and soiling to edges. The practice of eating one's fellow human beings is shocking to most of us today. But it was respectable 2000 years ago, and motivations have included religion, revenge, justice, and war, as well as starvation.

Madison Books, Incorporated. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

UNKNO, 1975. hardcover. Good. 9x6x1. Dust jacket has edge wear, taped edge tears and some edge loss. Text unmarked, pages clean and bright, binding tight. Ships Next Business Day.

Stein and Day, 1975. Hardcover. Good.

NY: Stein and Day. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops foxed.. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 0812817567 . vii, 209pp. Many black and white illustrations. A scholarly history of cannibalism throughout history and cultures. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Stein and Day, New York: 1975., 1975 209p. Illustrated. 8vo. Original cloth backed paper boards. Original dust jacket. OCC 2 0.0. Hardcover.

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… Read More

UNKNO, 1975-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!