Illustrated Dictionary of Bible Manners and Customs
New York: Philosophical Library, Inc, 1967. J. de Vries. First Edition. Hardcover.
Anthrolopology
In Defence of Sociology (Essays, Interpretations & Rejoinders)
Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1996. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. Is there a future for sociology? To many, sociology seems to have lost its way. Born of the ideas of Auguste Comte in the nineteenth century, sociology established itself as 'the science of modernity', linked to a progressive view of...
A Macao Narrative
Hong Kong: Heinemann, 1978. First Edition (presumed). Softcover.
Seeds, Spades, Hearths and Herds: The Domestication of Animals and Foodstuffs
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The M.I.T. Press, 1972. Second Edition, Third Printing. Paperback. Some of the author premises regarding domestication of animals and foodstuffs: agriculture did not originate from a shortage of food; domestication is found in areas of marked diversity in plants or animals; primitive cultivators could not establish themselves in.....
Maya: The Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilization
New York: The Viking Press, 1985. Third Revised Edition. Hardcover. This edition is published in conjunction with the exhibition Maya: Treasures of an Ancient Civilization organized by the Albuquerque Museum.
Japanese Society
Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1995. First Tuttle Edition, Tenth Printing (Japanese edition). Paperback. Includes publisher's promotional wrap-around band in Japanese. This short work presents a configuration of the important elements to be found in contemporary Japanese social life, and attempts to shed new light on Japanese society. Nakane...
Manchu Archival Materials
Taipei, Taiwan: Linking Publishing, Co., 1988. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Collection of essays by Professor Ch'en Chieh-hsien of National Taiwan University concerning the study of Ch'ing archival material.
In Times of Great Chaos
Hong Kong: Helping Hand Ltd, 1989. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover (Outsized). With contributions by: David Bonavia, Father Sean Burke, Anthony Lawrence, Bea Hutcheon, Margaret Ng, Ann Quon, Nancy Ma Thompson, Sybil Wong. A photo book recounting the first-hand experiences of hardship and struggle, through personal interviews with elderly Hong...
Visions of the Past
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1983. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Illustrated with 8 pages of color photos, 127 b/w photos and 5 maps.
Chinese Creeds and Customs (Volume 1)
Hong Kong: South China Morning Post, Ltd., 1966. Colonel Valentine Rodolphe Burkhardt (illustrations). First Edition, Fourteenth Printing. Hardcover. Colonel Burkhardt was a career military officer who spent most of his life stationed in and around China and Hong Kong. He was a man of many talents -- among them butterfly...
Pyramid
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. David Macaulay (illustrations). First Edition (presumed), Fourth Printing. Hardcover. About the author: David Macaulay is an award-winning author and illustrator whose books have sold millions of copies in the United States alone, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages. Macaulay...
Social Relations and Spatial Structures
Houndsmill, Basingstoke: The Macmillan Company, 1985. First Paperback Edition. Softcover.
The Naked Ape
Corgi Books, 1968. Reprint. Paperback. This work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology. Zoologist Desmond Morris considers humans as being simply another animal species in this classic book first published in 1967. Here is the Naked Ape at his most primal in love, at work, at...
The Naked Ape
London: Triad/Grafton Books, 1989. Reprint. Paperback.
Britain in Pictures: English Villages
London: William Collins, 1942. Second Edition. Reprint. Hardcover.
Return to Laughter
New York: Anchor Books Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964. Paperback.
The Harmless People
New York: Vintage Books, 1959. Reprint. Paperback. In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. Her account of these nomadic hunter-gatherers, whose way of life had remained unchanged for thousands of years...
The Mummies of Urumchi
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Some of Ürümchi's mummies date back as far as 4,000 years―contemporary with the famous Egyptian mummies but even more beautifully preserved. Surprisingly, these prehistoric people are not Asian but Caucasoid―tall, large-nosed and blond with thick beards and.....
Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
New York: The Free Press, 2010. Hardcover.
A Study in Naxi Pictography (纳西象形文字谱)
云南: 云南人民出版社, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Rare edition. Signed by author. Also includes a personal letter written by the author.
Japan: A Short Cultural History (Revised Edition)
Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2007. Reprint. Paperback. From a Japan Times book review, Sept. 27, 2014: If there’s room in your life for just one general history of Japan, let this be the one. In the hands of a master, history becomes art. British scholar-diplomat Sir George Bailey Sansom (1883-1965)...
Political Anthropology
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1972. Edward Wright (cover painting). Paperback. A Pelican Book. Part of the Pelican Anthropology Library. Originally published in the French as Anthropologie Politique. Translated by A.M. Sheridan Smith.
Village in Vietnam
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. First Edition (presumed), Sixth Printing. Hardcover. From the jacket blurb: The product of a long observation in the field (the research was sponsored by the Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group), this is the first full treatment of Vietnamese culture to be published...
Asian Drama: An Inquiry Into the Poverty of Nations, Vol. III (A Twentieth Century Fund Study)
Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1968. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback.
The Nineteenth Century World: Readings in the History of Mankind
New York: The New American Library, 1963. Milton Glaser (cover art). First Printing. Paperback. A collection of essays on developments and achievements in the 19th century by various contributors inlcuding Mario Praz, R.R. Palmer, Werner Conze, Robert E. Riegel, G.B.L. Wilson, Jean Rostand, Richard H. Shryock, A.A. Zvorikine, Paul Droulers.....
