Preston Richard Editor (26 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. New hardcover with dust jacket. Ann Preston (1813-1872) is best known as a medical pioneer and nineteenth century Quaker activist. She was the first woman Dean of the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1866), a graduate of its initial class (1851), Professor of Physiology and Hygiene (1853) and founder and director of the Women's Hospital (1862). This is a book written for children regarding issues of morality, ethics, and values. French, Stevie (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Includes 28 essays selected and with an introduction by Richard Preston. Series editor, Tim Folger. Includes essays by James Gleick, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Steve Olsen, Michael Perry, Susan Casey, John Seabrook and more. Notes on contributors. xxii, 300 pp. Near fine (light toning).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Published by McGill-Queen's University Press, 1974. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with light shelf wear. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Hardcover. Condition: NF/VG. First Edition. A fascinating look into the life of a Scottish emigrant who ended up settling in southeastern Ontario by way of the California and Cariboo gold fields. 338 pp. Jacket rubbed and mildly edgeworn.

Condition: FINE. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Includes 28 essays selected and with an introduction by Richard Preston. Series editor, Tim Folger. Includes essays by James Gleick, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Steve Olsen, Michael Perry and more. SIGNED by Michael Perry at his essay "Health Secrets from the Morgue." Notes on contributors. xxii, 300 pp. Just about fine.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First UK Paperback. 310pp, index, glosssary. Trade paperback. Minor edge wear to cover. The work of Peter Jahrling and the search for a drug that will take on smallpox -- and win. Size: 8vo.

PAPERBACK. First edition. 431pp b/w illustrations 4to paperback. Canadian Ethnology Service Paper #40. discoloration, slight cover wear otherwise very good.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 300 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. 4to. 28cm, vii,431p., white printed wraps, near fine, (ds7). - Twenty nine articles (several in French) with over half relating to peoples of Canada. The rest represent research in most of the other ethnographic areas of the world.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. vii, 431 pages. 28 cm. Printed card covers. Illustrated with b/w photographs, maps and drawings. Text in English with abstracts in French. Over 25 contributors with articles on Maritime ethnology, Micmac research, folklore, etc. Small stamp on title-page. Else tight and clean.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "A Scottish Emigrant's Letters from Canada, California and the Cariboo, 1844-1862." 12mo. Maroon cloth, title and attributions in gilt to spine. Square corners, secure binding. Minimal light signs of shelf wear at few points of extremities. Brown pastedowns/endpapers with maps. Manuscript facsimile frontispiece. A number of black and white illustrations throughout. 338pp. Complete jacket has minor scuffs and rubs at extremities and minimal creasing on back lower edge.…

8vo. Plates and maps. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. One of 600 copies of volume III from the Ontario Society of the Publications of The Champlain Society. A fine copy.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The book has very light wear on the spine tips & cover corners. The front & back endpapers are lightly spotted as is the insides of the covers. There is a small stain on the bottom edge of the frontispiece. The contents are clean & unmarked, the binding is tight. All the illustrations + maps are complete. …

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 140 p. ; 23 cm. ; ISBN 9780820303710, 0820303712 ; OCLC 1493724 ; LCCN 74021905 LC GN2 .S9243 no. 9 GN470 ; Dewey 301.2/1 ; color illustrated stiff paper wrappers in library binding ; ex-lib ; Contents: Introduction: the study of beliefs and behavior / Carole E. Hill -- Ideology as a cultural system / Clifford Geertz -- The prophecy and the law: symbolism and social action in seventh-day adventism / Frank E. Manning -- The case of the healthy hindu / Michael V Angrosino -- Ritual as communication and potency: An Ndembu case study / Victor W Turner -- Weberian, Southern Baptist, and Indonesian Muslim conceptions of belief and action / James L. Peacock -- Vomiting for purity: Ritual emesis in aboriginal southeastern United State / Charles Hudson -- Ethnometaphysics of Iroquois ritual / Elizabeth Tooker -- Belief in the context of rapid change: an Eastern Cree example / Richard J Ppreston -- Belief system, millenary expectations and behavior / Felicitas D. Goodman -- The contributors ; VG. Book.…

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 145 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. Ottawa, National Museums of Canada, 1978, Coll. National Museum of Man, Mercury Series, Canadian Ethnology Service Paper no 40, 431 p., 21 x 28 cm. Étampe de réception. code 1589.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 336 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

1974. (Hardcover) Very good in good to very good dust jacket. 338pp. Map endpapers, appendices, photographs, maps. Shelf wear to dust jacket. Time Period 19th Century. Locale: Cariboo. (Western Canada, Immigration).

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp. xxx, 503. colour frontis. & 6 double-sided b/w plates. cloth. First edition, one of the 1,500 copies printed for the Ontario Government. Aitken p. 41.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp. cxvi, 428, [2]. frontis. portrait, 6 double-sided b/w plates, 2 folding plans & 7 text illus. cloth with gilt crest on spine (upper corner of back cover bumped). First Edition, one of the 600 numbered copies printed for the Champlain Society. A further 1,500 copies were printed for the Ontario Government. Aitken p. 41.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 145 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.