Sociology from Books, Interesting and Odd & Sleepyside Books

Harper Collins, 1985. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Overall, a nice first printing of this cultural history of French...eating? VG in a like jacket. Jacket has some overall wear and a tiny tear to lower rear. Book has previous owner's (moderately large) "please return to" on ffep - tip… Read more about this item

Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1926. Soft cover. Very Good. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. One of the extremely widely sold "little blue books" from an enterprising Kansas publisher. The series included all manner of fiction and non-fiction, sold cheaply at all sorts of stores. Sanger is best known as an advocate for contraception, but… Read more about this item

Bison Books , 1988. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. An examination of the Lewis and Clark expedition with a focus on ethnographic analysis and pertinent background information on assorted Native American tribes. VG softcover with minimal wear and no internal markings

Simon and Schuster, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A dramatic reconstruction of the daily lives of the earliest tool-making humans, two leading anthropologists reveal how the first technologies-- stone, wood, and bone tools-- forever changed the course of human evolution. First printing, Very Good (nearer to fine but… Read more about this item

Mayfield Publishing Company, 1993. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. An examination of archaeological research done at a site in Connecticut, where Native Americans, African-American slavs, and colonists all resided in the 18th and 19th centuries. VG in pictorial wraps, with a little faint pencil underlining, and a few asterisks/exclamation marks in the margins.… Read more about this item

Thames & Hudson, 1987. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. VG or slightly better copy full of illustrations and b&w photos. Clean and tight, unmarked except for remainder mark to bottom edge.

Academic Press, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A totally acceptable copy with a tight binding, and only a few neat pencil notes in the margins

W H Freeman & Co, 1984. Soft cover. Very Good. A nice clean copy with NO notes/underlining. An examination of the effect of European contact on indigenous peoples.

New York : Pantheon, 1988. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Legendary author and raconteur Studs Terkel offers this look at the political divisions within the American populace in the late '80s. First printing, Near fine in a fine jacket, in protective Brodart. Previous owner's name in pen on front free endpaper… Read more about this item

Studio Publications / Thomas Y. Crowell, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. An examination of indigenous masks of the Americas, Africa, and Asia, with large black and white plates and accompanying essays. Very good in a Good, price clipped jacket (some discoloration to lower front panel, assorted small tears and chips). Internally clean with a nice sound binding.

New York, NY: William C. Copp and Associates, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fair. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A sober look at how one might further "professionalize" policing via "adequate training". The intro supposes that that "material on public relations will aid officers in bringing about a more sympathetic understanding on the part of the… Read more about this item

New York: Cambridge Univ Pr, 1989. Paper. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A nice, clean, unmarked copy of this intriguing socio-political history of an African village. Sound binding, tiny bump to one corner

New York: Viking Press, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Book primarily from a family therapist challenging conventional wisdom that only fathers and male figures can "make" a boy into a man. Fine first printing in a NF jacket..

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A fine first printing of this intriguing book that "traces America's fable of self-invention from its earliest Puritan beginnings to its successive retellings in the work of contemporary artists as diverse as Philip Roth and David Lynch". From noted music… Read more about this item

1940: Bonanza Books. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A wonderful collection of spirituals, edited by John Work of Fisk university. Book bound in blue cloth boards, clean and square, with no markings internally. Jacket VG, with some creasing at rear, and some lines/creases where laminated front panel is separating somewhat.

Princeton, New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Later printing of the first edition of this urban planning title. Book VG with foxing to top edge and a bit on fore-edge. Price-clipped jacket is Good, with foxing, wear to top corners, a couple small tears, and a large… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Wonderful first printing of this book from noted Women's Studies author Wolf. Fine in a NF, unclipped jacket, with just a touch of shelfwear. In protective mylar.

ICPSR, 2002. Paper. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Presumably, for the interested researcher, this could be a highly useful compendium of academic papers and other research conducted on criminal justice. Near fine paperback. No CD-ROM is included.

New York: Metropolitan Books, 2005. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A nice copy of this book from the author of Nickeled and Dimed, this time dealing with the difficulty of finding a normal midldle class office job when downsized. Near fine in a like jacket--mnimal shelfwear, small ink dot to bottom edge.

New York: Random House, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Nice first pirnting of Wolf's provocative book about women coming of age sexually. Fine, appears unread. Jacket has no tears but some wear and creasing.