The Crow Indians de Lowie, Robert W

Berkeley, California: Kroeber Anthropological Society , 1950. The RARE PREMIERE ISSUE of this important monograph created by the students of famed anthropologists A.L. Kroeber and R.H. Lowie. Large format blue stiff card covers with black cloth spine strip. Created to cover the general field of anthropology, descriptive studies putting factual information on record, bibliographies, linguistic texts and vocabularies,and historical documents of ethnological interest. Number 1 is dedicated to the recently retired Lowie and has his photograph frontispiece. Contents include PRE-COLUMBIAN TRADE BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA; OBSERVATIONS ON EARLY MAN IN CALIFORNIA; THE IDABAEZ: UNKNOWN INDIANS OF THE CHOCO COAST; A RECONSTRUCTION OF ABORIGINAL DELAWARE CULTURE FROM CONTEMPORARY SOURCES; BLACK MARKET IN PREROGATIVES AMONG THE NORTHERN KWAKIUTL; NEPENTHE IN ABORIGINAL AMERICA. Very good. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: The Masses Publishing Company, 1917. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Arthur B. Davies; K.R. Chamberlain; Boardman Robinson; Arthur Young; Maurice Sterne; Cornelia Barns . New York: The Masses Publishing Company, 1917. The April, 1917 issue (Volume IX, Number 6, whole number 70). Quarto, illustrated stapled wraps, 42 pp.; this is a scarce survivor of the smaller-format issues (i.e., no longer folio size) which were issued late in the life The Masses. 1917 was the last year of publication, and by the time of this issue, there were only months left. Just Fair, due to the absence of the front cover and the separation of the first page from the remaining textblock with rear cover - all of which is itself in Very Good condition, by any periodical standard. As the very inexpensively-produced budget-of-the-heart icon The Masses was, it no doubt deserves its own grading standard, but there is none such. Some small scale chipping on page 3 and rear… Leer más