String Figures. A Study of Cat's-Cradle in Many Lands by Jayne, Caroline Furness, 1873-1909. / Haddon, Alred C - 1906

Dover, January 1962. Trade Paperback. Used - Acceptable. Shelf and spine wear -- reader's copy.

Dover Publications, ND. Very Good. Jayne, Caroline Furness. String Figures and How to Make Them: A Study of Cat's-Cradle in Many Lands. NY: Dover Publications, ND. 407pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed and former owner's name on first page.

New York: Dover Publications. Good+ with no dust jacket. Paperback. Edges Rubbed and Sides Slightly Scuffed .

New York: Dover, 1962. 1st Edition thus? . Soft cover. Near Fine. Trade paperback, pictorial dull chartreuse covers. Tiny 1958 gift note FEP, clean text. Very light shelf wear. No spine creases. B/w drawings, photos. Ethnological intro by Alfred C. Haddon. Index. With ads. 15126 shelf

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dover Publications, Inc., 1962. Book. Illus. by Photographs, Diagrams. As New. Soft cover. Reprint Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. AN/none, pb, 407 pp. Illustrated stiff paper wraps with black colored text on upper and spine; slight edge wear; no chips or tears; slight rubbing. Interior pages clean, unmarked. Binding is straight and tight..

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., [1962]. Octavo, illus. green wrappers, (softbound), xxiii, 407 pp, index, bibliography. Very Good+, with light shelfwear. Includes 17 b & w ports. of contributing natives of various ethnologic backgrounds, 950 step-by-step figures. “This book describes, in a simple and easy-to-follow manner, how to make no less than 107 different string figures, just as they are made in their land of origin...The description of each figure and the process of making it is accompanied by several simply drawn sketchesthat show each distinct step as it would be viewed by the person making the figure...Besides those who simply wnat to use the book as a source of amusement, the book will be of great interest to anthropologists and collectors of string figures, since it greatly increases the knowledge of string games and their distribution around the world.

Dover, 1962. Paperback. Good. Dover, 1962. Good. , Paperback, Several cover creases. Text clean. 407 pages. B&w illustrations, photos. Ethnological introduction by Alfred C. Haddon. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.

New York, NY: Dover, 1962. Dover Reprint . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated green softcover/NF w/trace shelf wear. Arts & crafts. Games. A worldwide study and compendium of some 107 figures, 950 illustrations, formed from a simple loop of string with but hands. First published 1906 under the title "String Figures"; this is a Dover reprint of the original. Lucid text supported by 950 line drawings, highly informative & hours of fun.

New York: Dover Publications. G In Wraps. Cover Scratched, Small Dents. Pages: 407.. 1962. Trade Paperback..

Dover Publications, Inc, New York, 1962.. 1962. Softcover. 8vo. softcover. 407pp. index. b/w illus. Very good. .

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.

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.

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

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