Piddington Ralph (68 results)

227pp+ads., introduction, appendix, index. Piddington tries to bring together all the opposing theories of the origins of human laughter to offer an explanation of those aspects of this phenomenon as it relates to the functions which it subverves in society. Cloth, sunned and worn. Internally very good.

1939/1975. South Pacific, Oceanic. Cooper Square Publishers. Very good - near fine red-brown cloth, no dust jacket 373p.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. *Veteran-Owned, Family-Run, Small Book Store in the Pacific Northwest*.

Hb. Condition: G-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj. 373pp. Index. Wear and scuffing boards, stamp FEP, FEP clipped, clippings taped to endpages, extensive soiling.

1965. Anthropological theory, Geography. E.J. Brill/Leiden. Ex-library otherwise very good cloth 184p. Some minor pencil notations.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. 1st PB EDITION This copy is VG; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked except for previous owner's small sticker top fep and name top edge; binding is tight but edges show age. The covers are also VG; intact, including very good color and design, but signs of age. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES.

HARDCOVER. Reprint. 224pp octavo cloth. First Edition of the 1963 Reprint. gift inscription, cover wear otherwise very good-.

Condition: Good. Reprint. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning. DJ has some edge wear, toning and spotting.

Condition: Good. 1933. No Edition Remarks. 227 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 227 pages, a very good hardback.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. VERY GOOD hardcover in VERY GOOD dust jacket, no marks in text, tight binding, name on front free endpaper, clean exterior; a gently used copy. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Fine (-). No Jacket. First Edition. Volume 2 of 2 only. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. His stamp to ffep. Provenance provided upon request. This work carries on and expands on Piddington's 1950 Volume 1 of this set. Condition notes: 443-819 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight; modestly cocked. Cover: dk green, gilt titles spine; monomial shelfwear, boards slightly bowed.

Hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. ASIN: B000FMCKAG Hardcover, Volume 1 only, 2nd edition; fading and shelf wear to exterior; bump to bottom edge; binding reinforced; otherwise in good condition with clean text.

HARDCOVER. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. First edition. 227pp octavo cloth. bookseller sticker very good in worn dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No DJ. Lightly read if read at all. Two previous owners on front free page. First previous owner is John Webb and dated 1953. Second previous owner is Burton Benedict. Burton Benedict (1923-2010) was a professor emeritus of social anthropology at University of California, Berkeley and former director of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Benedict conducted his early anthropological fieldwork in the Indian Ocean island territories of Mauritius and Seychelles. There is a pencil notation from one of the previous owners on the front free page. No other markings in book. Binding is tight. 442pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Good to Worn. There are a few age spots on the back page.

Hardcover. Condition: Book fine, Dust jacket fine. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. 1st. The dust jacket is price clipped and has minor chips and closed tears to the extremitites and a stain to the front cover.

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Condition: Good. 1963. No Edition Remarks. 442 pages. Laminated dust jacket over cloth. Black and white photographic plates. Visible tanning to otherwise clear pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges. Noticeable tape stains to pastedowns and free endpapers. Dust jacket adhered to pastedowns. Light cracking to gutters slightly exposing netting but binding remains firm. Boards presumed clean due to dust jacket adhesion. Clipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Very good copies in hardcover with good jackets. Some foxing on endpapers of volume one. Sticker on jacket spine of volume one. Chipping and small tears along edges of jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. the jacket is bit torn and worn. chipped. shelf rubbed. sunned. creased. light marks. internally clean and tightly bound. Reprint. VOL.1 ONLY. [P.N.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 24 pages. some light foxing otherwise tidy copy.

First Edition. Signed edition. Near fine paperback copy; wrapper edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; [2], 24, [1] s. : il. ; 21 cm. Subjects; Malinowski, Bronis aw (1884-1942); history. Malinowski, Bronis aw (1884-1942); works. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 442 pages. Dj worn and chipped. Bottom of book lightly scuffed. Ex library copy.

Condition: Good. 2nd edition. Cloth, VG. xxvi+442pp, xvi+443-819pp, b/w frontis, 5 b/w plates to volume I, total of 35 text figures & 4 maps, index to each volume, some underlining in coloured pencil to the chapter of Social Organization, otherwise a good clean set. Good introductory volumes to the science of Anthropology, intended for undergraduates. 1850 grams.

Second Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 1 volume : illustrations ; 23 cm. Subjects; Anthropology. Ethnology. Ethnology; studies. Social anthropology. Human history; studies. Human evolution. Ancient history. 3 Kg.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New. In.

Paperback. Condition: New.