Anthropology from Walkabout Books

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Coronado Cuarto Centennial Publications, Bandelier Series. Two volumes, number 51 of a limited edition of 400 sets. 10.5" x 7.25, bound in original red cloth lettered in gilt. No dust jackets. Spine of Volume I lightly sunned and scuffed, text block of each volume slightly… Read more about this item

Ottawa: F.A. Acland, Printer to the King's Excellent Majesty, 1929. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Issued as Bulletin No. 61, Anthropological Series No. 12. 275 pp, including 33 b/w plates. Briefly inscribed by Barbeau on the title page. Light rippling to the first ca. 25 pages, otherwise very good. From the Preface: "the following description and analysis of… Read more about this item

Paris: Unesco, 1968. Softcover. Near fine. Fifth impression. 47 pp. Light toning and a few small scuff marks on wrappers, else fine. As cited in WorldCat: "This work presents a challenge not only to mid-20th-century zoological theories of racial difference, but more radically to the very idea of human progress that underlies racism. Lévi-Strauss's goal was to assert… Read more about this item

Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1925. Hardcover. Good+. Number 311 of a limited edition of 1100 copies. [iii], 301 pp, inoriginal cloth-backed boards. Spine and edges of boards toned. Rubbing to corners and top edge, small dent in fore edge of front board. Binding sound, text clean.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1943. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 319 pp, approximately 11 x 8.25 inches, with text in Navajo and English (introduction and notes in English only), a few line drawings, in original cardstock wrappers. One corner heavily bumped, binding sound, text unmarked. Haile (1874-1861) was a leading authority on Navajo culture and helped devise… Read more about this item

San Diego, CA: San Diego Museum of Man, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. 8.5 x 11 inches, stapled. 11 pp, with bibliography and 12 b/w illustrations (photos). Sticker shadow on front cover, internals fine. Describes the practice of the Zapotec Indians of eating earth as a preventive and curative medicine and includes "information on the background, significance, and… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: W.H. Lowdrmilk & Co, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Based upon original notes and personal observation, and upon compilation from over one thousand authorities....Not for General Perusal." 496 pp, in original brown cloth. Front hinge cracked, ink stamp of (oddly) the Peqout Engine Company of New London, Connecticut, on rear pastedown, a few pages with old… Read more about this item

Privately Printed, 1920. Softcover. Very good. 7 pp, in original printed wrappers. Light soiling on front wrapper; very good. Reprint of the 1885 edition.

Instituto de Literatura Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. 23 pp, in original stapled wrappers. Moderate general wear from handling, no markings.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 294 pp, indexed and illustrated. Boards slightly bowed, mild edgewear, date writting in ink on title page. Internally sound and clean. Dust jacket has some chipping and short tears. A comprehensive ethnographic survey of the uses of tobacco in nearly three hundred Indian societies in South… Read more about this item

Mexico, D.F.: Ediciones del Instituto Nacional Indigenista, 1954. Softcover. Very Good. 9 x 11 inches, 110 pp, with folding map, maps, illustrations from photographs, index, in original wrappers. Some soiling and wear to wrappers, wrappers beginning to separate from text block; text clean. Inscribed on frotn endpaper "For my good friend _______, with my regards, Mex. D.F. the… Read more about this item

Batavia, Java: Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij. Softcover. Good. Undated, c. 1930. Approximately 9 x 12 inches, oblong; [80] pp. Chipped at head and foot of spine, with loss of about 2 inches of paper at the foot, and old tape repairs visible; general shelfwear, binding tender. Gift inscriptions on inside and title page, otherwise clean. Text in Dutch. Black… Read more about this item

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1896. First Edition. Softcover. Fair. pp. 237-593, illustrated with plates (some from photographs) and line drawings in the text. Front wrapper heavily worn and detached, back wrapper and much of outer paper on spine missing, but text block sound and text clean. Good reference copy. Signed by author with short inscription on front… Read more about this item

Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint, 1974. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint of the 1924 original. 42 pp, with illustrations, in original wrappers. Some sunning to spine and edges of wrappers, title hand-written on spine; contents clean and sound. Description of of Zuñi scalp ceremonials in 1921 and 1891, with a section on changes in the ceremonials over time.

Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint, 1974. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint of the 1925 original. 123 pp + b/w illustrations from photographs, with illustrations. Some sunning and light shelf wear to wrappers; contents clean and sound.

Window Rock, AZ: Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Department, 1999. Softcover. Near Fine. xi, 245 pp, with illustrations (majority from photographs). Very light handling wear; contents clean. A collection of over 25 papers from four conferences by various authors on a variety of subjects and aspects of Navajo culture. Organized into five sections: Aesthetics, Doing Anthropology, Health, Economics, and… Read more about this item

Window Rock, AZ: Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Department, 1993. Softcover. Very Good. xvi, 389 pp, with maps, in original wrappers. Very light shelf wear with a few short tears at spine; contents clean. A collection of over 30 papers from three conferences by various authors on a variety of aspects of Navajo culture (see scan of partial table… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Nederlands Museum, 1992. softcover. Very good. 36 pp (text and bibliography) + 16 plates (one folding). Light soiling to front cover, internals clean, binding sound.

Gregg Press, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine. Two volumes in one, reprints of the 1923 and 1924 Cambridge editions. 176; 205 pp, with folding maps and illustrations; both volumes indexed. Light dust soil to fore edge, else a fine copy in the original green cloth. No dust jacket.

Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. Deuxieme (Second) edition. 532 pp, w/map, tables, bibliography. Original printed wrappers. Light cover wear, some spine creasing. Binding sound, contents unmarked. Text in French.