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Trade Paperback. Condition: New. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Complete number line [1 - 10] at copyright page. No remainder marks. A stock image is an accurate representation of the listed book's cover design. Illustrated with 8 B&W photographs. Pages: xii, 660. All books are located in my smoke free & climate controlled shop. All are inspected & will have qualities and/or flaws described. Domestic & international shipping includes tracking information. Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4 to 9 3/4".…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Some wear and marking. Copyright: Tom Scott, 1970; Reprinted 1976, 1981.

First edition Fine and bright red boards with gilt titles in near fine dustjacket with just the slightest gentle use along top edge, nothing offensive. Quite handsome.

Hardcover. DJ shows light wear; DJ bumped on spine edges and corners; faint foxing to top page edge; yellow-brownish discoloration to rear endpapers are spine hinge; DJ in mylar protector. ; 5 3/4 x 8 1/2"; 114 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Beautifully illustrated cloth cover. Illustrated end papers. Unadorned and intact slipcase. As new with all that implies: clean text and interior, tight square binding, unbumped corners and no degradation of gilt.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Some discoloration to pages. Some wear along the DJ edges and tips. Minor wear along the edges and tips of the book itself. Tips are slightly bumped. Some rubbing wear to DJ covers along with light creases and/or wrinkles at some spots.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This bright white card cover book has very, very light wear on the corners and slight fading to the top edge& spine edges. The contents are clean & unmarked, the binding is tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. From the collection of an Ex-School Library, with their stamp marks, written code and book plate tipped in on the first page and a small library code on the spine of the book. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 136 pages. Scuffed mark on the first page from the removal of a previous Library sheet and a withdrawn stamp mark on the block of the book. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

trade paperback. Condition: good; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED8vo; 300 pages; good trade paperback; scuff and stain to face cover; tips bumped; spine slanting; clean pages; promptshipping with tracking.

mass market paperback. Condition: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo; 693 pages; acceptable mass market paperback; tan spine area; some tan to cover; tips bumped with chip; crease to cover; spine heal chipped; spine starting to slant; some ink front blurb page from a previous owner; some ink marginalia various pages from previous owner; some faint tanning to edges; prompt shipping with tracking.…

1987. Journals, South Pacific, Oceania. Working paper series, Pacific Islands Studies Program, Centers for Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Very good stappled paper 205p.

Softcover. Softcover. LCC: 9868410.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual markings. Clean copy, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Condition: Very Good. . Hardcover. Vols I and II only. Text in German. 8vo. Good clean copy in half leather. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Cloth with Dustjacket. 1st British Edition. A nice Hammett collection consisting of 9 short stories an unfinished novel & a long intro. by Hellman. Light wear and some shallow chipping to the top edge of the bright red dustjacket + sliver of a damp stain to edge of the back panel. The back pastedown has a somewhat neat narrow mend & very minute browning to the pages and the front edge otherwise this is a vg+ copy in a vg. dustjacket. Book.…

Condition: Very Good. . Hardcover. Vols I and II only. Text in German. 8vo. Good clean copy in half leather. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: New. viii, 705 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm Contents: Introduction -- Fieldwork. 1. From scrambled messages to an impromptu dip : serendipity in finding a field location ; 2. The paradox of friendship in the field : analysis of a long-term Anglo-Japanese relationship -- Marriage and some early theoretical contributions. 3. Is science maintaining tradition in Japan? ; 4. The modification of tradition in modern Japanese weddings and some implications for the social structure ; 5. Tomodachi kō : age-mate groups in northern Kyushu ; 6. Shoes : the early learning of an important distinction in Japanese society ; 7. "The fix" in Japanese society ; 8. Marriage and the family in modernising Japan ; 9. The continuing case of Japan -- Child rearing and education. 10. Becoming Japanese : a social anthropological view of child rearing ; 11. Kindergartens and the transition from home to school education ; 12. Peer pressure and kindergartens in Japan ; 13. Children's contests in Japan ; 14. St. Valentine and St. Nicholas travel abroad : success and internationalisation in Japanese education ; 15. Individualism and individuality : entry into a social world ; 16. Bags, objects and education in Japan ; 17. Material objects and mathematics in the life of the Japanese primary school child -- Politeness, housewives and the wrapping idea. 18. The use and abuse of politeness formulae ; some social implications ; 19. Respect, solidarity or contempt? : politeness and communication in modern Japan ; 20. Humidity, hygiene, or ritual care : some thoughts on wrapping as a social phenomenon ; 21. To wrap or not to wrap : politeness and penetration in ethnographic inquiry ; 22. The armour of honorific speech : some lateral thinking about keigo ; 23. Politeness and formality in Japanese social relations ; 24. Order, elegance and purity : the life of the professional housewife; 25. Honorifics as dialect : the expression and manipulation of boundaries in Japanese ; 26. The role of the professional housewife ; 27. Wrapping and Japanese presentation : is this waste or care? ; 28. The sacred power of wrapping -- Cultural display. 29. Gardens and the wrapping of space in Japan : some benefits of a Balinese insight ; 30. Nature tamed : gardens as a microcosm of Japan's view of the world ; 31. Who is representing whom? : gardens, theme-parks and the anthropologist in Japan ; 32. Pine, ponds and pebbles : gardens and visual culture ; 33. The whole world as heritage? : foreign country theme parks in Japan ; 34. Foreign country theme parks : a new theme or an old Japanese pattern? ; 35. The Japanese tattoo : play or purpose? ; 36. Old gods, new pilgrimages : a whistle-stop tour of Japanese international theme parks ; 37. Shakespeare on show in Japan : an anthropological analysis of cultural display ; 38. "The past, foreign countries and fantasy . they all make for a good outing" : staging the past in Japan and some other locations -- Some sundry contributions. 39. Nursing in Japan ; 40. Food as social nutrition? : the Japanese case ; 41. Drinking and gender in Japan ; 42. The ritual of the revolving towel ; 43. The chrysanthemum continues to flower : Ruth Benedict and some perils of popular anthropology ; 44. Building bridges, common ground, and the role of the anthropologist -- Summing up. 45. Japan and Pacific anthropology : some ideas for new research ; 46. Learning that emerges in times of trouble : A few cases from Japan ; 47. Forty years of research and teaching on Japan : a personal trajectory -- Joy Hendry's full bibliography -- Index.…