San Diego: Academic Press, 1991. First Edition with full numberline. Small quarto (9.5" x 7.5"); xxvii, 495pp. Maroon buckram with black and silver lettering and illustration. No dust jacket as issued. Boards are clean and square with very faint rubbing along bottom edges. Previous owner's name stamped on front pastedown..... More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1945. Second Printing. [Publications of the Philadelphia Anthropological Society Vol III] Octavo; x + 126pp, including appendices and bibliography. Burgundy cloth with gold lettering on spine. Cloth mildly soiled, with some scratches, and nudging to crown and foot of sunned spine. Lettering darkened on spine..... More
New York: E.J. Brill, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. 292 pages. Signed by author on front free endpaper with inscription, "To Paula and Abe, / with fondest regards. / - Benson." Number 56 in the Numen Bookseries - Studies in the History of Religions. Purple illustrated dust jacket over brown..... More
New York: Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1995. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; xvi, 411pp. Photos and illustrations throughout. Illustrated paper-covered boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Boards sturdy and square with no significant signs of shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not ex-library. More
Bonn: Ludwig Röhrscheid, 1932. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo (24cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's tan printed wrappers; [2],140; [2],52pp.; Vol. II chiefly illus. General minor shelf wear and a hint of dust-soil, small chip at Vol. I spine crown, Vol. II slightly foxed, especially title page, else Very Good overall..... More
Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1942. First Edition. Small Octavo (23x15.5cm); 53pp, augmented with 12 additional unpaginated plates; includes bibliography. In addition to the 12 plates, illustrated throughout with 21 documentary figures embedded in the text. Flecked gray governmental card covers, saddle-stapled. Covers toned along spine with a...... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. First Edition. Signed by the author to paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould on title page with inscription "To Professor Gould" with the author's name following in Japanese letters. Octavo; [xv], 269pp. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth with bronze and gilt..... More
Buenos Aires: Editorial Viau SRL, 1943; facsimile of volume originally published by R. Ackermann in London in 1820. Limited Reprint Edition of 3470, of which this is No.1489. Quarto; xxviii + 115pp. Twenty-five full-color watercolors reproduced on 24 bound-in plates, including four landscape-format fold-out plates. Broché in cream cardstock, with..... More
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida / UPF, 2002. First Edition. Quarto. 392 pp. Black and white charts, graphs, photos, and illustrations. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Sky blue and speckled beige boards stamped in gilt. Light rubbing and creasing to edges of dust jacket. Boards gently rubbed at extremities..... More
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1955. Deuxieme Edition Revue [second revised edition]. Large, thick quarto; publisher's cream pictorial wrappers printed in brown, teal, and black; [6],554pp.; ten leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos, numerous maps and plans throughout. Wrappers a bit worn and quite toned, substantial dampstaining..... More
Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1993. First (and sole) Edition, limited to 3500 copies. Quarto (28x21.5x0.5cm); 60pp, including biographies of Inuit artists and bibliography. Color and B&W reproductions, artist portrait photographs, and documents throughout. Coated, illustrated wrappers. Only the slightest signs of faint tanning at wrapper edges. Textblock unmarred..... More
Gainesville, FL: University of Florida / Institute of Archaeology and Paleoenvironmental Studies, 1993. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's staplebound card wrappers; vii,[1],52pp.; illus. throughout. Some toning to wrapper extremities, ownership rubberstamp and signature to front cover, manuscript title and author added along spine edge; overall Very Good, internally clean and sound..... More
First Edition. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. First Edition. Octavo (8.75" x 5.5"); xii, 200 pages. Illustrated boards. Ex-library with discarded stamp to front free endpaper and library marking blacked out on top edge, but no other library markings or additions. Light shelfwear to covers with a few faint smudges..... More
Taipei, Taiwan: Artist Publishing Co., 1990. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's pictorial glossy card wrappers; [6],138pp.; illus. throughout, many printed in color. Wrappers a bit creased, with a solid bump at bottom corner running throughout, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Exhibition catalog to accompany an art show..... More
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976. Reprint. Octavo; publisher's teal cloth, spine lettered in black; xii,308pp.; maps and photographs throughout. Light shelf wear and dust-soil, boards very slightly bowed, else Very Good overall. First published in 1961. More
Carbondale: Center for Archaeological Investigations, 1984. First Edition. Quarto; xxxii, 541pp. Orange paper wraps. Photos, maps, and diagrams throughout. Covers a bit bumped and smudged near head and tail of spine, with a bit of fading along bottom edge. Appears signed with inscription by co-author King on title page, though..... More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. 227 pages. Printed dust jacket. Beige boards stamped in black and gilt. Unclipped dust jacket is lightly rubbed at edges. Very light, uneven discoloring of cloth boards. Small crack at bottom of front joint and some bowing to..... More
Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1984. First Edition. Tall octavo; ix, 402pp. 162 figures / illustrations. English language text Publisher's illustrated blue cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Light bump to front board at top edge, with some nudging at head of spine and faint scratches to surface. Previous owner's name on front..... More