Resultados de búsqueda: Anthropology from Twin City Antiquarian Books

New York: The Viking Press, 1962 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Viking's regular statement indicating a first edition is on the copyright page, but the dust jacket identifies this as Popular Science Living Library Program edition. Blue boards, red titles on spine, charts on endpapers, ix, 214 pp, 4 ff b & w plates, index. Rear free endpaper creased, else fine. DJ rubbed with 3 cm tear to top of front panel; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "Focusing on [ice ages of] the last million years, Woodbury traces the history of man's emergence against the background of the ice: the first tentative excursion of the ape into the life of an intelligent being, his use of crude tools and his arrival at the threshold of civilization. All along the line it is shown how the ice, first attacking, then retreating by irregular turns, played a major role in man's development, grooming him to survive because he was the first to have the… Leer más

New York: Pantheon Books, 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Beige boards, beige cloth spine, maroon titles, 176 pp, black & white photos & drawing throughout, bibliography, index. Small surface scars on pp. 34-5, else fine. DJ covered with adhesive plastic, else fine. Contents: nature & evolution of the hand (you need hands; structure of the hand; function of the hand; evolution of the hand); social & cultural aspects of the hand (tool-using & tool-making; handedness; fingerprints; gestures). Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Near Fine/VG. 25 X 19½ cm.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full brown cloth, black & gold titles and decoration, map on front endpapers, xi,416 pp, 8 ff plates of Mytinger's charcoal drawings. Spine & part of boards sunned, corners of rear board bumped. Personal account of the author's self-funded expedition to the Solomon Islands and New Zealand to draw portraits of "vanishing primitive peoples" before they finished vanishing (or modernizing). The plates reproduce some of these portraits. The title refers both to these portraits and to the portraits she made on commission of colonists and fellow tourists to support herself and traveling companion on the journey. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . VG/No dj. 22 X 15 cm.

New York: Viking, 1989 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Remainder. Introduction by Stephen Jay Gould. Beige boards, black cloth spine with gilt titles & rules, endpaper maps, xiii, 352 pp, 4 ff color photo plates, 14 b & w photos and 3 line drawings in text, notes, bibliography, index. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Faint water marks on bottom edges of last 75 pages and DJ rear flap, else Fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Willis describes the work of well-known paleoanthropologists such as Richard Leakey, but also that of the mostly-unknown field and laboratory workers including the Hominid Gang, a group of African fossil hunters working for the National Museums of Kenya. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/VG. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in card covers with titles & decoration in black, green, & white, xiii, 466 pp, black & white photos & drawings scattered throughout, chapter references, glossary, index. Slight shelf wear, scattered pages have annotations or a few words underlined in ink. Collects 26 papers by various authors intended to "acquaint the beginning student in physical anthropology with the different lines of evidence that provide a unified view of the processes and results of human evolution. Studies in genetics, ecology, and archeology, field studies of primate behavior, descriptions and interpretations of the fossil record, experimental sudies in human adaptation, and descriptions of population differences all form the subject matter of modern evolutionary research by anthropologists...." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 4th ptg. Trade Paperback. VG+/No dj. 23 X 15 cm.

New York, St. Louis & San Francisco: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Yellow boards, black spine with gilt titles, yellow endpapers, top edge dyed brown, 256 pp, bibliography. Book & DJ covered with heavy plastic. From the introduction: "When the pressures of modern living become heavy, the harassed city-dweller often refers to his teeming world as a concrete jungle. This is a colourful way of describing the pattern of life in a dense urban community, but it is also grossly inaccurate, as anyone who has studied a real jungle will confirm. ... The zoo animal in a cage exhibits all these abnormalities we know so well from our human companions. Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 22 X 14½ cm.

New York, Chicago & San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red-orange cloth with yellow-orange cloth on boards for about 6 cm near fore-edge, yellow-orange & black titles on spine, xii, 308 pp, notes, bibliography, index. Top corners of boards and a few leaves bumped. DJ worn at spine ends; in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, "The Imperial Animal is about the social bonds which hold us together and the antisocial theories which drive us apart; about how the evolutionary past of the species--reflected in genetic codes--determines our present and coerces our future. The Imperial Animal is unique in taking very seriously the study of human beings as they are, as we know them, and as we know them in prehistory." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG+/VG. 23½ X 16 cm.

Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1966 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full green cloth, gilt-on-brown titles on spine, brown endpapers, xxiii, 454 pp, 4 ff color plates, 8 ff b & w plates, 4 maps, index. From the DJ: "This is the story of a lifetime of exploring, a search for the primitive peoples of the world. On four continents, Lewis Cotlow found them, lived with them, and reported on film and tape their ways of life, realizing that their ancient mores would soon be eclipsed by the advance of civilization." Portions of this book were previously published. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Lilac & chartreuse cloth, bronze foil titles on spine & blind decoration on front board, [xv], 173, [1] pp, 8 woodcuts including title page, blbiliography, index. Top edge of lilac cloth faded. DJ has tiny chips at corners & spine ends; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Walter Ferro. 24 X 16½ cm.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full putty-colored cloth, black titles on spine, xv, 341, [1] pp, bibliography. DJ lightly rubbed all over; in Brodart archival cover. Contains 17 essays, originally published in academic journals, on Frake's observations of four ethnic and linguistic groups in the Philippines: the Subanun, the Yakan, the Zamboanga, and the Sulu. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Fine/VG+. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1989 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter light brown cloth with brown paper-covered boards, illustrated endpapers, 318 pp, 8ff color plates, numerous b/w illlustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Tail of spine turned in, edges of boards faded, else fine. DJ has minimal edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. First person account of the discovery of a Homo habilis fossil in 1986. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. BOMC. . Near Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth with foil titles on spine & copper decoration on front board, top edge dyed blue, xvii, 411, xiii, [1] pp, 4 ff b & w plates, many line drawings in text, index. Minor bumps & rubbing. DJ spine & edges browned, extemities rubbed, several long closed tears; in Brodart archival cover. Gives a history of the development and an explanation of the theory of evolution in general and of human evolution in particular. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/VG-. Illus. by Sue Richert. 22 X 15 cm.

Chicago: Phoenix Books (The University of Chicago Press), 1968 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Remainder. Mostly green wraps with black & white titles & decoration, vi, 159. [3] pp, chart, 41 figures, glossary, bibliography, index. Remainder mark on bottom edge, moderately rubbed. Contents: the antiquity of man; origins of tool-making; materials used for tools; making stone implements; outline of the cultural sequence in relation to geology; evolution of palaeolithic cultures; implements associated with fossil man; some attributes of man the tool-maker. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. 20½ X 13½ cm.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1962 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Series: Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lecures. Full navy blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, xiii, 381, [1] pp, bibliography, index. One corner lightly bumped. DJ missing except for front flap blurb tipped onto fpd. Contents: biology & culture in human evolution; heredity; environmentalist thesis & hereditarian antithesis; equal but dissimilar; heredity of health & disease; natural selection & survival of the fit; the emergence of man; human mental faculties & their antecedents; polymorphism, class & caste; race; evolution in process; the road traversed & the road ahead. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . Near Fine/Poor. 24 X 16 cm.

Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas, 1960 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Revised and enlarged English translation of Manual de Antropología Física, which was published in Dec. 1957. Tan leather-textured cloth, printed on coated paper, xxi, 775 pp, 116 figures, notes, bibliography, index. Extremities slightly rubbed, underlining on a few pages. Contents: historical review & definitions; the origin & evolution of man; heredity; growth; somatology; biotypology and constitutional types; craniology & osteology; paleoanthropology; racial classification & living human groups; application & teaching of physical anthropology. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. First Edition in English. . VG+/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.

Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by Warre Bradley Wells. Full green cloth, gilt titles on spine & facsimile signature on front board, top edge dyed green, frontis., 330 pp. Front flyleaf separated at gutter but repaired, otherwise very good, spine sunned. Blum states his conclusion--that young people are naturally polygamous, developing a taste for monogamy (and thus being suitable for marriage) only after considerable experience--then rambles on giving examples of how this works and what happens if one tries to ignore it. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . G+/No dj. 21 X 14½ cm.

New York: S. G. Phillips, Inc., 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth, gilt titles on spine, xxx, 736 pp, index. DJ lightly rubbed at extremities; in Brodart archival cover. Gaster's single-volume abridgement of Frazer's 13-volume study of "magic, taboos, sexual practices, superstition, and wizardry...preserves the original thesis, structure, and documentation while omitting those subsidiary and incidental elements which recent research has rendered untenable." Gaster has also added documentation of newer discoveries. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. . Fine/Near Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Published jointly with Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, this copy in Scribner's binding. No date, list of books in The Contemporary Science Series goes up to Volume XLVIII, of which this is Volume XXVIII. Full maroon cloth, gilt titles on spine, blind titles & decoration on front board, 419 pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, 76 figures, footnotes, author index, subject index. Ex-library with usual markings including "Withdrawn" stamps, lacks ffep, blank paper pasted over fpd, a few pages torn, large chip affecting text on pp 325-6. Interesting study of the earliest forms of human inventions, both material and cultural. The material is traced both through archeological and ethnological study Including the ethnological allows study of the living skills of making and using artifacts. Contents: tools & mechanical devices; invention & uses of… Leer más

New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, & Auckland: Doubleday, 1992 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, charcoal grey cloth spine with gilt titles, endpaper maps, xxii, 375 pp, 12 ff b & w photo plates, 16 illustrations in text, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "For Richard Leakey the most compelling question is no longer 'How did we physically evolve?' It is, instead, 'How did we become human?' For this world-famous paleoanthropologist it is a humbling reminder that no matter how complete the skeleton, how perfect the fossil, there is a gap in our knowledge. Our ancestors evolved from two-legged scavengers into creatures that create." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1978 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Perfect-bound in blue & white wraps, [vii], 114 pp. Ownership stamp on half-title, else fine. Anthropology contents: introduction, by May Ebihara; forensic anthropology, by Harry L. Shapiro; ethnicity and stratification in the urban United States, by Leith Mullings; religious coexistence in northern Zambia: intellectualism and materialism in Yombe, by Mario Bick. Linguistics contents: introduction, by Rosamond Gianutsos; are LASSes better than LADs? by Sheila J. White; situational variability in the speech of preschool children, by M. Cole, J. Dore, W. S. Hall, and Gillian Dowley; testing morphological productivity, by Mark Aronoff and Roger Schvaneveldt. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Wraps. Near Fine/No dj. 23 X 15½ cm.