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Watts & Co., 1932. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1932. 244 pages. Grey pictorial dust jacket over brown pictorial cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Inscription to front endpaper. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Book has a forward lean. The unclipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, with tears, chips and areas of loss. Heavy tanning to spine and edgesSticker to front.

London: Watts & Co., 1932. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition first printing in The Thinker's Library (no. 26) Abridged Hardback 256 pages Illustrated Very Good condition in Good unclipped dust jacket (slight losses from rear top edge of jacket) No inscriptions

London: Watts & Co, 1932. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The Thinker's Library, No. 26. Brown cloth, illustrated boards with lettering in black, dust jacket present. Ink name to front endpaper, light wear to dust jacket, with postage stamps used to mend some worn edges to inside and out. With black and white illustrations throughout the text. First printing of this edition.

London: Watts Thinker's Library, 1932. First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. First version of series brown cloth binding with black decorated front inc. 'Thinker' bottom centre, no obvious faults but spine a tad darkened. Series list+ f/piece+xii+244, numerous text ills and maps of various kinds, no obvious internal faults. This is an abridgment of the original 1901 edition. One of the products of the famous Torres Straits Expedition which Haddon led 1898-9. No.26 in the Thinker's Library series 11 cm x 16.5 cm

Watts & Co, 1932. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Watts & Co 1932, abridged edition. Hardcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. Includes a dust jacket, price unclipped, in good condition.

London.: Watts & Co.. Abridged Edition.. 1932.. Maps, black & white illustrations, xii + 244pp, index. Endpapers and edges foxed, dustjacket worn and marked with little loss and spine browned, now protected, overall a good copy. Thinker's Library, No. 26. Chapter headings include: The Murray Islands; Work and Play in the Murray Island; The Malu Ceremonies; A Trip Down the Papuan Coast; Sarawak; A Trip Into the Interior of Borneo; The Cult of Skulls in Sarawak. .

London: Watts & Co., 1932. 1st ed. thus. Nice copy. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket xii + 244pp., frontis., b/w plates, text ills., maps, index, ÔA first-hand account of experiences among the primitive peoples of Borneo & New GuineaÕ. The ThinkerÕs Library edition. No.26. First edition in this form. Neat ownership signature o/w a very nice copy in decorated black & gold boards, in a nice unclipped dust jacket with minor loss

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-06-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

London: Watts & Co, 1932. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo (small). Thinker's Library No. 26. Abridged edition. xii, 244 pp. B&W illustration in text. Spine tilted. Dust jacket chipped to spine foot, sunned to spine, with reinforcement or repairs to spine head and upper corners with stamp-like stickers. A first-hand account of experiences among the primitive peoples of Borneo and New Guinea.

London: Watts & Co, 1932. Abridged ed. Hardcover. Very Good/N/A. The abridged account of the Cambridge University ethnographer, Charles Haddon, to New Guinea and Sarawak at the end of the 19th century. His host in Sarawak was Charles Hose, the Brooke administration civil servant and ethnographer. 244 pages. Please see the scan of the contents page for further details. Very Good Hardback in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Weight: 0.4kg. Post free within Malaysia A very nice copy with a dust jacket that has mild fraying at the top and base of the spine. The binding is tight, the text is clear and there is mild tanning throughout.

London: Methuen, 1901. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good. maroon cloth, gilt lettering, 426 pp, very light dent on top edge of front cover, spine stained and chipped at the ends, edges trimmed, fore edge foxed, "Mervyn G. Williams" (owner)'s bookplate on front paste down, label of "W. H. Smith & Son's Library" at bottom right of same end paper, pages all throughout foxed Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

London: Methuen & Co, 1901. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". Not Stated. The scarce first edition of this study of the Torres Strait islanders, from influential anthropologist Alfred Cort Haddon. The scarce first edition of this unusual work.Illustrated with a frontispiece, numerous vignette illustrations, and thirty one photographic plates. Collated, complete.Divided into twenty-five chapters, Haddon discusses Malu ceremonies, the Murray islands, turtle fishing, marriage customs and myths, Cape York natives, and the country and people of Borneo.The penultimate chapter is titled 'the cult of skulls in Sarawak'.With the contemporary inscription of Arnold Southall to the half title, and a forty-eight page publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Discolouration to back strip, with bumping to back strip head and tail and closed tears to spine head. Endpapers renewed. Internally, firmly bound. Inscription to head of half title. Light spotting throughout.… Read More

London: Methuen & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth titled in gilt. Front cover has gilted skulls design. Inscribed to ffep "For Cooper Cole with the author's regards Aug 10, 1906." The boards show mild rubbing/shelfwear and the corners are softened. The gutters and spine ends have been professionally repaired and the binding is tight. There are faint pencilled PO names to rear endpages and scattered foxing throughout. Includes frontis photo with tissue and numerous other truly interesting photographic plates. Scarce signed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 426+ads pages; Signed by Author .

London: Watts & Co, 1932. Abridged edition. The Thinker's Library, No. 26. Ilustrated. 1 vols. 12mo. Brown cloth. Stamp of Perkin & Cia, Buenos Aires, at foot of title. Near fine copy. Signed at the back, Jorge Luis Borges, julio, 1934. Abridged edition. The Thinker's Library, No. 26. Ilustrated. 1 vols. 12mo. Signed by Borges, from His Library. Account of a visit to the Torres Straits in 1898, originally published by Methuen in 1901, here in a popular edition and with the ownership signature of Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges, who had an unsurpassed curiosity for recondite subjects which often figure in his essays and tales.