NY: Selmar Hess, 1898. 1st Edition. Hardcover. AS NEW internals. all chromolithogrpahed plates bright and clean. Bindings solid, but red rot starting at spine and extremities and corners. At the time, a state of the art production, electrotyped by Smith & McDonald, NY and printed at the press of J...... More
NY: World Publishing, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Warmly inscribed and dated Christmas 1959 by anthropologist Mead to the grandchildren of author and close friend Edith Cobb, whom Mead met at Columbia University while Cobb was doing graduate studies. Some rubbing to spine largely confined to about an inch square chip..... More
Boston: Houghtgon Mifflin, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy to Edith Cobb, wife of author Boghton Cobb, to whom Boughton dedicated his book, with his inscription on the ffe. Ninth printing 1963, after the first of 1956. Green cloth covers, lacking dustjacket. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. Hardcover. #340 of 750 editions. 10 volume manuscript edition in original green, small pebbled cloth, edges uncut, brown leather labels with titles in gilt. Spines have dulled to tan and leather labels are variously darkened and chipped with some loss to gilt. Internals are near fine..... More
Universe, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unread/unused copy. Pictorial wraps (not issued in hardcover). Catralog for an exhibition curated by Peter T. Tunney. More
London: Samson Low Marston & Company, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo, elaborately gilt-stamped white linen, a.e.g. 474 pp, illustrated with photographs by the author. A sparklling copy all around. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. SRI LANKA CEYLON TEA. More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, olive-green cloth , decorations and titles in green, brown and gilt. Spine moderately browned as is often seen with this tile. Square, solid binding. Internals fine. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. More