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evidence as to man's place in nature by Huxley, Thomas E - 1863

by Huxley, Thomas E

evidence as to man's place in nature by Huxley, Thomas E - 1863

evidence as to man's place in nature

by Huxley, Thomas E

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Appleton FIRST U.S. EDITION AND SAME TIME AS uk EDITION. The UK edition has 169 pages; the US edition 184 pages.

My BOOK is hard bound, fairly solid, and grubby, with 4 leaves of ads at the back. Rubs on spine and discoloration on front see scan. Illustrated with many sketches.

Author Thomas Henry Huxley was known as Darwin's Bulldog. He, and his son and grandson. Sir Julian Huxley and Aldous Huxley, were key figures in the development of the various theories of evolution

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  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1863
  • Keywords Darwin; evolution; Huxley
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Breve Historia de las Divisiones Territoriales/Mexico y sus Constituciones/El Sobreseimiento de...
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Breve Historia de las Divisiones Territoriales/Mexico y sus Constituciones/El Sobreseimiento de los Amparos Administrativos en Materia Fiscal

by Edmundo O'Gorman O'Gorman (1906-1995), Felipe Tena Ramirez and M G Villers

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Volume 2 in three parts: Breve Historia de las Divisiones Territoriales by Edmundo O'Gorman: li+261 pages with with index; Mexico y sus Constituciones by Felipe Tena Ramirez: ix+139 pages with tables, bibliography and index; El Sobreseimiento de los Amparos Administrativos en Materia Fiscal by M G Villers: 97 pages. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7 1/2"") bound in half red leather with original wrappers bound in and gilt lettering to spine. Prologue by German Fernandez del Castillo. From the library of George M Foster Volume II of Trabajos Juridicos de Homenaje a la Escuela Libre de Derecho en su XXV Aniversario. From the library of Professor George M Foster. First edition.Volume I of this series was Apuntes para la Historia del Derecho en Mexico by D Toribio Esquivel Obregon. Further volumes were in preparation at the time of this printing. Volume III to be published in four parts. Volume IV in three parts.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18,… Read More
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The Mutual Interaction of People and Their Built Enviornment
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The Mutual Interaction of People and Their Built Enviornment

by Amos Rapoport (1929- )

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xv+505 pages with figures, charts, plates, diagrams, tables and indexes. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6") issued in black cloth with white lettering to spine and insignia on front cover. Preface by ol Tax. First edition.Contents: Sociocultural Aspects of Man-Environment Studies by Amos Rapoport; The Social Function of the Built Environment by Robert Gutman; Cultural Pluralism and Urban Form: The Colonial City as Laboratory for Cross-Cultural Research in Man-Environment Interaction by A D King; How Can We Learn about Man and His Settlements? by C A Doxiadis; Design for Man-Environment Relations by Aristide H Esser; Human Territoriality as an Object of Research in Cultural Anthropology by Ina-Maria Greverus; the Social Properties of Places and Things by G McBride and H Clancy; Some Territorial Layouts in the United States by Albert E Scheflen; A Description of the Maori Marae by M R Austin; Peasant House Building and Its Relation to Church Building: The Rumanian Case by Anca and Paul-Henri Stahl; Analysis of… Read More
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Maori (Descriptive Grammars)

by Bauer, Winifred

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Hunger

Hunger: An Unnatural History - Inscribed & autographed by author

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Blending science, sociology, and personal experience, this book is an exploration into how hunger works. It is inscribed and autographed by the author.
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A Short Walk In the Hindu Kush

A Short Walk In the Hindu Kush: A Preposterous Adventure

by Newby, Eric

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This book relates the tale of a classic adventure in the wilds of Afghanistan. There is a former owner's name inside the cover.
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Entre los naguales y los santos
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Entre los naguales y los santos

by Félix Báez-Jorge (1945- )

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268 pages with tables, plates and bibliography. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") issued in wrappers. From the library of professor George M Foster and inscribed by the author to Foster. First edition.Condition:Corners gently bumped else a near fine copy.
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Modern Greek
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Modern Greek

by Joseph, Brian D. & Philippaki-Warburton, Irene

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Koromfe (Descriptive Grammars)
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Koromfe (Descriptive Grammars)

by Rennison, John

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Persian (Descriptive Grammars)
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Persian (Descriptive Grammars)

by Mahootian, Shahrzad

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Resisting Occupation in Kashmir
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Resisting Occupation in Kashmir

by Duschinski, Haley; Bhan, Mona; Zia, Ather; Mahmood, Cynthia (all editors)

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University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Hardcover without dust jacket. Used - fine condition. Book is clean and tight with very little shelf wear aside from some light bumping to the corners. No markings or blemishes inside the book. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.
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Reflections on Modern Science Little Blue Book No. 238

Reflections on Modern Science Little Blue Book No. 238

by Huxley, Thomas and edited by E. Haldeman-Julius

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Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., no date [ca 1923]. 32mo.; stiff wraps, softcover; 64 pages; wraps are sunned with tanned pages else very good.
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Authors on Film
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Authors on Film

by Geduld, Harry M. (editor); James Baldwin, Bertolt Brecht, Truman Capote, Jean Cocteau, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, E. M. Forster, Andre Gide, Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, Jack Kerouac, Jack London, Thomas Mann, et

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Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1972. First Edition.Trade Paperback. 0253310806. Midland Book MB-179 330 pages, notes on authors, index. Very Good copy with edgewear, rubbing, and toning to covers. bx308
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The Magazine Encore June 1943
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The Magazine Encore June 1943

by Edited by Dent Smith with stories and articles by James Thurber, Edmund Wilson, Max Beerbohm , H.E. Bates , Thomas Henry Huxley and many others

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The Encore Press , N.H. , 1943 First Edition 143 page Vintage Digest Sized Magazine. Edited by Dent Smith with stories and articles by James Thurber, Edmund Wilson, Max Beerbohm , H.E. Bates , Thomas Henry Huxley and many others. See Photos A near fine copy with light edge wear and light dust soiling to the covers. See photos This Week bx
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THE CULTURE DEMANDED BY MODERN LIFE: A Series of Addresses and Arguments on the Claims of Scientific Education

by Youmans, Edward; John Tyndall, Thomas H. Huxley, Arthur Henfrey, James Paget, Michael Faraday, William Whewell, W. B. Hodgson, Herbert Spencer, F. A. P. Barnard, Justus von Liebig, Prince Albert, Thomas Macaulay, Edward Forbes, George E. Paget, Sir John H

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New York: D. Appleton, 1897. Later edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo; x, 473 pages, half leather, marbled boards, head of spine chipped "In the Introduction, [Youmans] has attempted to show that a course of study, mainly scientific, not only meets the full requirements of mental training, but also affords the kind of culture or mental discipline which is especially needed in this country at the present time. ... The organization of a scheme of study adapted to American wants is the educational problem, immediately before us, and the present volume, it is hoped, will contribute valuable suggestions toward its solution." - Preface.
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A Lliberal Education (Publisher series: Little Blue Book.)

by Huxley, Thomas (Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius.)

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Girard: Haldeman-Julius [no date]. (Pamphlet) Fine. 32pp. Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius. Publisher series: Little Blue Book 7. (Sociology, Education).
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Poems of To-day: First and Second Series
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Poems of To-day: First and Second Series

by By Various (including Thomas Hardy, Aldous Huxley, Hilaire Belloc, Walter de la Mare, G. K. Chesterton, A. E. Housman, Robert Louis Stevenson, W. B. Yeats, Siegfried Sassoon and many more)

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Poems of To-day: First and Second Series, by Various (including Thomas Hardy, Aldous Huxley, Hilaire Belloc, Walter de la Mare, G. K. Chesterton, A. E. Housman, Robert Louis Stevenson, W. B. Yeats, Siegfried Sassoon and many more)

Hardback, circa 1928, fifth impression, published by Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, London, 350 pages + xxii.
Rare copy with dust jacket. Measures 7 3/4" by 5 1/2" by 1 1/2". Dust jacket has some scuffing and marking, with some tattering a little tearing at edges and a chip missing from upper outer hinge corner, some discolouration to spine, but in reasonably good condition for age. Cream cloth binding with gilt decoration and lettering to front board and spine, some darkening to spine and the odd mark but overall quite clean. Upper page edges gilt, fore-edges and lower edges deckled and opened reasonably neatly though with some jagged edges. Lower edges very clean, upper and fore-edges a bit marked, some marking to gilt on upper edges. Blue cloth ribbon marked, a little frayed… Read More
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Revista de cuba vol,VIII periodico mensual de ciencias,derecho,literatura y bellas artes,la...
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Revista de cuba vol,VIII periodico mensual de ciencias,derecho,literatura y bellas artes,la habana cuba 1880.: Director jose antonio cortina

by jesus benigno galvez,thomas h huxley,jose francisco arango,nicanor a gonzalez,geronimo cockx,florencio suzarte.enrique jose varona,antonio bachiller y morales,c courriere,jose manuel pascual,joaquin m demestre,dupley p bailey.e a mantici,antonio sellen,me

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La revista de cuba,periodico quincenal de ciencias,derecho,literatura y bellas artes.fue una revista publicada en el siglo XIX,y tuvo como director a jose antonio cortina.en ella colaboraron los mas destacados escritores,poetas y periodistas cubanos del siglo XIX,como enrique jose varona,antonio bachiller y morales,rosa kruger,emilio blanchet,antonio sellen,nicolas heredia,vidal morales y morales,antonio lopez prieto,anselmo suarez y romero,y otros destacados escritores,la revista esta encuadernada.y en buen estado,es la primera edicion,original,del ano 1880.
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INAUGURAL MEETING OF THE FISHERY CONGRESS; FISH DISEASES; THE DESTRUCTION OF FISH AND OTHER AQUATIC ANIMALS BY INTERNAL PARASITES; FISH AS FOOD; FOOD OF FISHES; FISH CULTURE; THE NATURAL HISTORY AND CULTIVATION OF THE SOLE; PROPAGATION OF THE SALMONIDAE; THE PROPAGATION OF FRESHWATER FISH EXCLUDING SALMONIDAE; CRUSTACEANS; ARTIFICIAL CULTURE OF LOBSTERS; MOLLUSCS, MUSSELS, WHELKS, ETC. USED FOR FOOD OR BAIT; OYSTER CULTURE AND OYSTER FISHERIES IN THE NETHERLANDS; NOTES ON THE FOOD FISHES AND EDIBLE MULLOSCA OF NEW SOUTH WALES; SEAL FISHERIES; THE SCIENTIFIC RESULTS OF THE EXHIBITION

by H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES; PROFESSOR HUXLEY; T. SPENCER COBBOLD; HENRY THOMPSON; F. DAY; FRANCIS DAY; W. HOUGHTON; W. OLDHAM CHAMBERS; THOMAS CORNISH; W. SAVILLE KENT; MR. CHARLES HARDING; PROFESSOR HUBRECHT; E. P. RAMSAY; CAPTAIN TEMPLE; PROFESSOR E. RA

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LONDON: WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS LIMITED, 1883. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. Scarce in first edition. Front board and up to page 5 of first book detached, cloth missing from rear board. Boards rubbed and marked, spine darkened, fore edge foxed, Albert Harrison bookplate to front pastedown, prelims lightly foxed, pencil inscriptions to some margins on some of the books otherwise clean throughout. Good rebinding copy. Full list of titles and authors, in order of appearance, as follows: Inaugural Meeting Of The Fishery Congress By H.R.H. The Prince Of Wales Fish Diseases By Professor Huxley The Destruction Of Fish And Other Aquatic Animals By Internal Parasites By T. Spencer Cobbold Fish As Food By Henry Thompson Food Of Fishes By F. Day Fish Culture By Francis Day The Natural History And Cultivation Of The Sole By W. Houghton Propagation Of The Salmonidae By W. Oldham Chambers The Propagation Of Freshwater Fish Excluding Salmonidae By W. Oldham Chambers Crustaceans Bt Thomas Cornish;… Read More
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The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley [complete in 5 volumes including supplement]
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The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley [complete in 5 volumes including supplement]

by Huxley, Thomas Henry (Edited By Foster, Michael & Lankester, E. Ray)

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London: Macmillan, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First (and only) edition of Huxley's complete scientific works, previously only available in the original scientific journals. 1898-1903. Complete in 5 volumes: 4 plus the supplementary volume. Numerous plates, many folding. A good ex-reference library set in the original red cloth gilt. Library plate to front pastedown of each volume, no other library markings apparent. Externally clean with some sun fading and minor scuffing to cloth boards. Vol. 1 backstrip split and reaffixed. Vol. 2 and the supplementary volume rebacked with new endpapers but retaining original backstrips. Text blocks of each volume are tight with no loose or missing pages, all plates present. Internally the volumes are overall clean and unmarked with very occasional small foxing spots and evidence of handling on a few pages of each volume. Overall a clean tight copy of this cornerstone of 19th Century biological thought. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), known as… Read More
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The Racial Analysis of Human Populations in Relation to Their Ethnogenesis and Some Possibilities...

The Racial Analysis of Human Populations in Relation to Their Ethnogenesis and Some Possibilities for Estimating Inter-Population Relationship on the Basis of Continuous Traits in Current Anthropology Volume 3, Number 1

by Andrzej Kazimierz Wierciski (1930-2003) and Tadeuz Bielicki

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51 volumes complete with diagrams, illustrations, plates, maps, figures, indexes. Quarto (10 1/4" x 8 1/2") issued in wrappers. Some reprints, most first editions.Current Anthropology, whose first issue was launched in 1959, is one of the discipline's oldest and most distinguished journals, and has been sponsored since its founding by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The journal was the first of its kind, championing an interdisciplinary approach alongside a commitment to international dialogue, while fostering a community of international scholars. It became known for its innovative format that combined major research papers with responses solicited from the field. The format, now known as the "CA treatment" was unique in its time and was copied by other journals such as Behavioral and Brain Sciences. While the journal has changed over the years, its original principles are still clearly present and can be traced back to the unique collaboration between the Foundation, led by Paul Fejos,and the… Read More
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Peldanos en la Conciencia: Restros en la Plastica Prehispanica
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Peldanos en la Conciencia: Restros en la Plastica Prehispanica

by de la Fuente, Beatriz Ramírez (1929-2005)

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101 pages with frontispiece and pictorial title, 88 illustrations and 25 color plates. Square royal octavo (9 1/2" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with black label to spine with gilt lettering and gilt pictorial to cover in original pictorial jacket. Second printing Limited to 3000 copies. The author: "The faces depicted by Mesoamerican man are artistic expression of different peoples. Here I have wanted to look at them not only as objects of art, but also in the light of what they communicate about the human being in himself and in his relationship with him. world that has to be ordered around him ". Condition: Points rubbed. Jacket edge wear with chips, tears and creases else very good in like jacket.
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Society and Economy in Mexico
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Society and Economy in Mexico

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xxii+163 pages with photographs, charts, tables, graphs and bibliographies. Quarto (11 1/4" x 8 1/2") issued in brown cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Forward by Jeffrey Bortz. Statistical Abstract of Latin America Supplement Series, Supplement 10. First edition.Contents: the Six Ideological Phases of Mexico's "Permanent Revolution" since 1910 by James W Wilkie; The Development of Engineering Expertise for Social and Economic Modernization in Mexico since 1929 by David E Lorey; The Class Structure of Mexico, 1895-1980 by Stephanie Granato and Aida Mostkoff; Complexities of Measuring the Food Situation in Mexico: Supply versus Self-Sufficiency of Basic Grains, 1935-82 by James W Wilkie; The Dramatic Growth of Mexico's Economy and the Rise of Statist Government Budgetary Power, 1919-82 by James W Wilkie.Condition:Corners bumped else a better than very good copy.
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Red Pottage
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by Cholmondeley, Mary

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Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.
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The Sky and the Forest
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The Sky and the Forest

by Forester, C.S

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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey

Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River

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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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The Spirit of Ancient Peru: Treasures from the Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
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The Spirit of Ancient Peru: Treasures from the Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera

by Berrin, Kathleen (editor)

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London: Thames and Hudson, 1998 216 pages with plates, diagrams, maps, illustrations, bibliography and index. Quarto (11 1/4" x 9") issued in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine decorative vignette to front cover. Preface by Isabel Larco de Alvarez-Calderon. Foreword by Harry S Parker. 1st edition. Contents: The Spirit of Rafael Larco Hoyle: An Introduction by Kathleen Berrin; Rafael Larco Hoyle (1901-1966) by Clifford Evans; Life and Afterlife in Pre-Hispanic Pru: Contextualizing the masterworks of the Museo of Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera by Richard L Burger; The Coastal Islands of Peru: Myths and Natural Resources by Maria Rostworowski de Diez Canseco; Moche Art: Myth, History and Rite by Elizabeth P Benson; Deer Hunting and Combat: Parallel Activities in the Moche World by Christopher B Donnan; Andean Aesthetics by Esther Paztory; Catalogue of Objects by Elizabeth P Benson, Susan E Bergh, Richard L Burger, Heidi King and Joanne Pillsbury. Condition: Jacket price clipped, small chip at… Read More
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The People Called Apache
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The People Called Apache

by Mails, Thomas E (1920 - 2001)

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447 pages with maps, 16 color plates, over 300 black and white photographs, and over 200 drawings, bibliography and index. Folio (12 3/4" x 9 1/4") bound in original publisher's dark brown cloth with black lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Drawings by Thomas Mails. First edition. They called themselves The People, but to nearly everyone else in their world they were known as The Enemy. And they earned the name in every respect. Seldom has any people fought harder for the preservation of their territory and their way of life. We know them today as the Apache, an ancient people who, in historic times, made a prolonged and desperate effort to drive the Spanish, the Mexicans and finally the Anglo-Americans out of their ancestral lands. Unsuccessful, they were placed in four reservations, on or near their original ranges in Arizona and New Mexico, some of the most ruggedly beautiful land in this country. There most of them still live, accepting the White ways yet keeping many of the old… Read More
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Ecstatic renovation! : Street Art Celebrating Sierra Leone's 1992 Revolution
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"Ecstatic renovation!" : Street Art Celebrating Sierra Leone's 1992 Revolution

by Joseph A. Opala; Raymond Desouza George (forward)

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RARE! Freetown: Sierra Leone Adult Education Association, January 1994. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. Fine. Interior pristine. Securely bound with two clean staples. Rubbing to covers. 39 pages.
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Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky

Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky

by Nijinsky, Romola

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Nijinsky, Romola. Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky. The Definitive Biography Copyright 1980. Simon and Schuster stated First Impression Thus. Number line starts with 1. EXLIB. Good Condition/ VG original dust jacket. 260 pages, indexed. ISBN0671411233. PERFORMING ARTS, RUSSIA, BALLET, VASLAV NIJINSKY. Summary: "The life of Vaslav Nijinsky is not merely a record of a great dancer's artistic triumphs; it is one of the strangest stories ever written. There is madness everywhere. From the child's first appearance with a troupe of wandering Russians to that last terrible performance, his "Marriage With God" , it is a growing chaos of madness, abnormality, distortion, genius and beauty." 260 pages, indexed. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4.
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