Mcconnel Ursula (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Poor. Volume's condition is rated Poor because it lacks plate 17 and has wear, creasing and foxing. Signed by the author at top of cover. Binding has age browning; the first page has a stamp indicating that this volume was not accessioned by a Harvard University museum library. 42 p., with in-text illustrations and 16 p. of plates [ifo grndfth clk]. Signed by Author(s).…

4to. 42pp. + 18pp. b/w illustrations. Original title wrappers. A fine copy. . First edition thus.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Volume Two, Number One. Blue soft covers with darker blue lettering. Covers are moderately thumbed, and bear some creasing on the corners. A sunning and browning halos the front cover. Head corner is lightly damaged possibly by some sticky tape being removed and taking with it some cover (check image). Spine is showing some heavier discolouration along side wear and tear possibly due to sunning. Head and tail of spine well rubbed. Pages are slightly discoloured. The odd page bears some foxing and other discolouration but nothing dramatic. Some pages dog eared. Otherwise this journal is in fair condition. Journal article in this volume: Anthropology and Native Administration A Moon Legend From The Bloomfield River, North Queensland Mortuary Rites in New Ireland (Bismarck Archipelago) The Social Organization of South Australian Tribes Manus Religion Edited by Raymond Firth, University of Sydney.…

VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY, octavo, maroon buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xxii + 173pp, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl foxing & tanning to page edges, usual but minimal library markings) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy chipping & creasing to edges/extrems, light soiling & chafing to covers).…

Condition: Gut. XXII, 173 Seiten. Mit einigen Abbildungen im Text sowie auf Tafeln. Schutzumschlag leicht berieben, etwas angestaubt und mit kleineren Randläsuren. - Ehemaliges Bibliotheksexemplar mit Inventarnummern und Stempeln auf Vortitel- und Titelblatt. - Papier gebräunt. - Davon abgesehen insgesamt gut erhaltenes Exemplar. -- Dust jacket slightly rubbed, slightly dusty and with minor edge wear. - Former library copy with inventory numbers and stamps on the front cover and title page. - Paper browned. - Apart from that, overall a well-preserved copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 480 8° (17,5-22,5 cm). Orig.-Leinenband mit illustriertem Orig.-Schutzumschlag. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1957. Octavo, xxiv, 173 pages with illustrations (by James Wieneke and Madge Hodges) and 2 maps, plus 5 pages of plates (reproducing 7 photographs) and endpaper illustrations (itemised in the list of illustrations). Cloth slightly sunned and rubbed; an excellent copy with the good dustwrapper (price-clipped and slightly worn and marked, with minor loss at the head and foot of the spine). The book is based on the author's fieldwork carried out on Cape York Peninsula in 1927-31 and 1934. Provenance: Donald Finlay Fergusson Thomson (1901-1970), anthropologist and zoologist, with his signature ('Donald F. Thomson') at the head of the front free endpaper (see his entry in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' for details of his important involvement with the Aboriginal peoples of northern Australia).…