Anthropology from Berthoff Books

Rutgers University Press, 2017. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 268 pages, with Index and Bibliography. Published in the Global Perspectives on Aging series. Trade paperback, practically no visible wear, light smudges to top edge, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked. Inscribed by author on half-title to friends, one a former teacher.

Oxford University Press, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 187 pages, with index, bibliography. The book discusses the social basis of cognition. 8vo, black paper over boards with beige quarter, copper gilt lettering on spine, scant shelf wear, foxing to edges. Names of former owners written on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia by Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on… Saber más sobre este artículo

Simon and Schuster, 1962. Hardcover. Good. 251 pages. A Touchstone Book. Sixth paperback printing. "In . . . life-sketches of modern Africans from powerful chiefs to the dispossessed of the great cities, the author . . . examines tribalism, its values, its traditions, its effects on Africa's future." Trade paperback, scant wear but wavy from damp damage, edges… Saber más sobre este artículo

Criterion Books, 1961. Hardcover. Good/Good. 404 pages, with bibliography and index. Levi-Strauss's first-hand study of Amazonian forest tribes. First published in French 1955. Sixty-three b&w photos on plates, 53 line drawings. 8vo, turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on spine, worn at corners/crown/heel and along edges of boards, brown topstain, tan stain from newspaper clipping to front end papers.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Santa Monica Press, 2008. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 331 pages. Foreword by Christy G. Turner. 8vo, red patterned paper over boards with gilt lettering on spine, one corner bumped, otherwise practically no wear, pages bright, in unclipped, crisp DJ. Inscribed by author to Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on half-title, AEB's notes in pencil observed on approximately… Saber más sobre este artículo

Bantam Books, 1972. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 515 pages, with index, bibliography, chronological tables. Illustrated with b&w photographs of artifacts and digs on 16 double-sided plates; also a map and drawings of hieroglyphs, site layout, etc. Book originally published in German 1949, English translation by Knopf 1951. This "Second revised and substantially enlarged edition" issued by… Saber más sobre este artículo

Watts & Co., 1949. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 310 pages, with bibliography and index. First Thinker's Library edition of book originally published 1936. The Thinker's Library #133. With original preface and short preface to Thinker's Library Edition, by the author. 4-1/2" x 7", faded red cloth with rubbed silver gilt lettering, very faded red (?) topstain, end papers decorated… Saber más sobre este artículo

Vintage Books, 1971. Soft cover. Very Good. 128 pages, with Index of Sources, Subject Index. First Vintage edition - V-682 (book copyright 1970). From back cover: ". . . what few social scientists would have dared to attempt: . . . an introduction to the economic study of history, in all of its complexity." Mass-market paperback, shelf wear… Saber más sobre este artículo

Avon Books, 1971. Soft cover. Good. 224 pages, with index, suggestions for further reading, black and white illustrations (photos) throughout. The study explores four different cultures in Africa. Book first published 1966. Mass-market paperback, edges stained red, crease to spine, light shelf wear, page margins age-toned. Former owner's name written on ffep, pages unmarked.

Vintage Books (Random House), 1970. Soft cover. Good. 269 pages (plus list of Vintage books), with index. First Vintage edition (V-584) of book published in hardcover 1969. Eight chapters of economic history, six-part Appendix containing diagrams of various processes: export-generating, import-replacing, patterns of economic activities, and a list of definitions. Mass-market paperback, average wear and age-toning to wraps,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Touchstone, 1987. Soft cover. Good. 310 pages, with index, two maps, several other drawings, glossary, pronunciation guide, 10 full unnumbered pages of b&w photos. Touchstone edition of book first published 1972. Trade paperback, light shelf wear, price sticker and remnants of two others on back cover, Former owner's name and another price in pencil on ffep, underscoring and/or… Saber más sobre este artículo

Simon and Schuster, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 298 pages, with index, glossary, pronunciation guide, three maps, 13 unnumbered full pages of b&w photos. Clarion imprint. Fourth paperback printing. Trade paperback, one signature (p. 171-202) printed upside down, light shelf wear, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned, binding tight, pages unmarked.

Harper Torchbooks, 1961. Soft cover. Good. 170 pages, with index. Edited and introduced by H.P. Rickman. Trade paperback, backstrip peeled at crown, otherwise light shelf wear. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (author of The Mysterious Barricades: Language and Its Limits) written on half-title, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 30 pages including half-title and rfep.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), 1995. Soft cover. Good. 286 pages, with index and bibliography. Trade paperback, light shelf wear, corner-creases to wraps, end papers browned, edges and page margins age-toned, pages unmarked.

Frederick A. Praeger, 1962. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 261 pages, with index, 78 photographs on b&w plates, 49 line drwings, 3 maps. Volume 25 in Ancient Peoples and Places series, general ed. Glyn Daniel. 8vo, brick-colored cloth with rubbed gilt lettering and decoration, worn especially at corners, both hinges cracked making the binding loose but all pages firmly attached,… Saber más sobre este artículo

University of Chicago Press, 1997. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 366 pages, of which 42 are full pages of b&w illustrations; with index. "Second edition with a new Afterword" (first edition appeared 1987). Trade paperback, a little shelf wear, very faint foxing and soil to edges, numbers handwritten on front wrap. Underscoring and (interesting) notes by former… Saber más sobre este artículo

Princeton University Press, 1977. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 520 pages, with index. First paperback edition of book first published in 1972). No subsequent volumes exist. Trade paperback, creases in spine and front wrap, shelf wear to especially to heel and corners, faint foxing to top edge, light soil to other edges. Name of former owner Prof.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Dell, 1969. Soft cover. Good. 384 pages, with index and bibliography, illustrated with drawings (cuts). Fourth printing, first published in 1961. Mass-market paperback, wraps rubbed, creases to spine and back wrap, edges decoratively tinted blue and have foxing, end papers foxed and age-tanned, page margins age-toned. Marginal notes observed on fewer than five pages.

University of Chicago Press, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. 255 pages, with index, three maps, suggestions for further reading. Chicago History of American Religion. Book first published 1981. Trade paperback, crease to upper corner of back cover and slight fold to about 20 pages behind it, two bookstore stickers on back, very faint foxing to top edge, binding… Saber más sobre este artículo