Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1984. Octavo. 347 pages. Illustrated blue dust jacket over black cloth boards with gilt lettering. Unclipped dustjacket shows very light shelfwear but no chips or tears. Boards tight and square. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. 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
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
New York: Arno Press, 1973. Reprint of the 1932 Metropolitan Museum of Art [MMA] Edition. Textured orange boards with spine stamped in gold over purple block. 496 pages plus 8 plates. Interior clean and unmarked. Pencil marking on rear pastedown. Binding is sound. Pen mark on front board, approximately one..... More
Toronto: The Clark Co., Yonge Street, [1904]. Revised Twenty-Third Edition. Octavo; [xii] + 1487pp. Half bound in sea-green leather with raised bands on spine and gilt-stamped ornaments within spine compartments; title gilt-stamped on burgundy ground. Sea-green, gold, and tan marbling front and back, endpapers, and on all textblock edges... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket; xiv,[2],228pp.; illus. and maps in text. Jacket a bit edge worn with short closed tear at bottom edge of upper panel not approaching text, ownership pressure stamp to front free endpaper, else Very..... More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1966. First Edition. Octavo (publisher's cloth in tan decorative dust jacket; xi,[3],370pp.; 4 leaves of photographic plates printed on rectos and versos. Some minor chipping at spine crown, additional light shelf wear, else Very Good and sound. Posthumously published collection by the Jewish-American anthropologist who established..... 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
Rochester, NY: Cruithne Press / Boydell & Brewer, 1994. Large Octavo. 356 pages. Illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket over black boards with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket slightly creased at edges and crown, else fine. Binding is tight and square. Pages unmarked. More
New York: The Illustrated Milliner Company, 1927 [1928]. Tall Quarto; 64 unnumbered pages, coated paper, printed obverse only. Every other leaf shows a full-color historical and anthropological array of headdresses. Burgundy boards with shortened title—"History of Millinery Fashions"—in gilt on front panel. Contemporary binding is soiled and darkened with..... More
Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2010. Quarto. 341 pages. Illustrations. Red cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket, as issued. Sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. Unread. Some wear to plastic shrinkwrap with a few small punctures. A touch of shelfwear to corners of boards. Volume 16 in the..... 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, but boards and binding..... More
New York: A. Wessels Company, 1904. Later Printing. Part of the Wessels series "Source Books of American History." Octavo; 219pp, including "Notes to the Legends." Full-color frontispiece portrait of the Cornplanter, with captioned tissue guard. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; front panel blind-stamped with "Source Books of American..... More