Firth Raymond Foreword (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. A merely good, working/reading copy of the softcover edition. Highlighting with some sparse marginal notes throughout the text. Binding is bright and fresh in appearance.

Periodical. Condition: Good. 1968 printing. Rubbing and discoloration to covers, otherwise text clean and solid; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 324 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition First Printing. Scholarly exploration, largely by social anthropologists, of spirit possession & mediumship across a wide sampling of African countries across the entire continent. In 310 pages with some black & white photos scattered throughout text. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1969, this octavo (5.75" x 8.75") has bright orange cloth-covered boards, stamped & ruled in bright gilt to spine. Condition is VG+: completely clean, pages white & unmarked, but front matter preceding title page has been excised (not ex-lib). Binding strong & straight. Slight faded/bleached area to top outer edge of front board, as well as slight rubbing, same area; does not impact interior. Corners crisp. The price-clipped DJ is also VG+, marred only by slight spine fading & a triangular chip near spine descending from top edge of back cover; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.…

Red Cloth. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. 1st ed. xxx+310, 13 Plates ex-pagination; prev.owner's sig. top front endpaper, small 'post-it note' type sticker strip to Plates list apparently correcting to entries otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked, covers clean and almost unworn but small cloth crease across bottom spine corner extending a few cms onto front cover - unclear if this is a knock or a binding fault; clipped jacket otherwise clean and unmarked, in protective sleeve as acquired, spine just a shade faded. Most of the 13 chapters concern 'spirit possesion' phenomena. Size: 14 Cms x 22 Cms.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. A first edition, first impression of this historical survey of the urban community of Hanuabada, by anthropologist Cyril Belshaw. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Cyril Shirley Belshaw (1921-2018) was a Canadian anthropologist. This work, the third book in a series of monographs Belshaw wrote on social economics in Melanesia, was based on research conducted while living with his family on the outskirts of Hanuabada from 1950 to 1951. Belshaw's wife Betty learned the language and connected with women of the community. Belshaw relied on the help of male English-speaking informants such as Ranu Nihara and Osineru Dickson. Research data was obtained through discussions in homes and normal village activities. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally cloth is very bright and smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with spotting to the fore edge, affecting the occasional page. Dust wrapper is mostly smart, though a little spotted to the rear of the wrap. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…