Male Cults and Secret Initiations In Melanesia

Melbourne University Press, 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 140 pages. The reasons for rituals in different societies with accounts of the relevant customs in Papua New Guinea, the Solomons and the New Hebrides (Vanuatu). Previous owner's label on front fly leaf. Maps, charts. Record # 378633

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1967. Pp. x+140, text maps (one double page), tables, bibliography, index; top fore-corner of boards a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, edges rubbed and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, small stain to top edge of a few leaves; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1967. First edition.

Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1967. Octavo, x, 140 pages with 3 maps. Cloth; ownership stamp; a fine copy with the dustwrapper slightly rubbed and chipped with trifling loss.

Melbourne University Press,1967. First Edition. 8vo.pp.x+140,bibliography ,index.A little insect damage to the dust wrapper now protected.Illustrated. Better than good working copy. The author puts forward a theory on anthropological and partly on psycho-analytic theory for the variety of practices found in the initiation rites of melanesia.

Melbourne University Press, 1967T. hardcover. Very Good. 0.7000 in x 8.5000 in x 5.5000 in. Hardcover with good dust-jacket. Clean and solid. Ships from a smoke-free home. Wear and tearing to jacket.

London and New York: Melbourne University Press, 1967. Dust jacket with clear plastic protective covering, price clipped, light edgewear to spine and reading edges, spine ends lightly bumped, boards clean and tidy, pp clean and text clear to read, binding sound.. Hard. Good/Good Minus. 8vo.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.