Morphy Howard Editors (17 results)

4to, 56pp, colour and black and white illustrations. A good paperback copy. Corners of front cover creased. . Exhibition catalogue.

1st edition. Large 8vo. x + 306pp. B/w. illustrations from photographs. Several small marks to front f.e.p. Original boards. Pictorial orange and green d/w. lettered in orane and white, some minor wear to edges. ISBN 0300066910 US$12.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A very good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this soft-cover book. Monograph number five in the publisher's series, a collection of pieces by different authors on aspects of baskets and basketmaking among native American peoples (North and South America) . 175pp, 10 colour and 175 b&w illustrations. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. DJ is lightly faded at spine and small section of front, otherwise near fine. xvii, 554 pages. An extraordinary collection of letters that had remained unpublished for nearly a century. They shed vivid light on race relations, social conditions, and Aboriginal culture in central Australia. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.…

8vo, 554pp. Black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in dust jacket.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. An interesting collection of art and material culture from the Pacific brought back by Cook from his voyages. Book in very good condition. Book includes colour plates, black and white photos, illustrations, maps, charts and line drawings. Size: 22.5cm.

Large 4to. 266pp. Original stiffened wrappers. Numerous colour and black and white illustrations; a fine copy. . First edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published by Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford in 1988, here is the first softback printing of AUSTRALIA IN OXFORD (Oxford University Pitt Rivers Museum Monographs #4) edited by Howard Morphy and Elizabeth Edwards. Glossy pictorial card covers, 96 illustrated pages the book is in very good condition.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 266 pages. Illustrated. The art of Aboriginal Australia gives tangible expression to a particular way of being in the land. The Kluge-Ruhe Collection, now held by the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, is one of the largest and best-documented collections of Australian Aboriginal art outside Australia. Art from the Land focuses on the desert region and Arnhem Land, drawing on the many fine works in the collection and on the authors' detailed knowledge of the artists and their communities to illustrate the unique and complex nature of Australian Aboriginal artistic expression. (K3/1).…

*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Card covers (pbk), large quarto, 266pp, colour illustrated. Very light wear top card edges; a near fine copy. The collection concentrates on art from Arnhem Land and the Central Desert region.

Soft cover. Condition: New. This is a softcover brand new copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Pristine. This book may require a freight adjustment.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Charlottesville, University of Virginia, 1999. Quarto, vi, 266 pages with numerous colour illustrations. Colour pictorial card covers very slightly rubbed; an excellent copy. 'The Kluge-Ruhe Collection is one of the outstanding collections of Aboriginal art outside Australia' (from the introduction). The collection focuses on the desert region and Arnhem Land.…

1st Ed., with a foreword by Craddock Morton, and introduction by Michelle Hetherington & Howard Murphy. (VI), 130 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 21.5 x 24 7 papers: Looking across the Beach, by Greg Dening. Cook the Discoverer, by Nigel Erskine. . by: Paul Turnbull - Adrienne L. Kaeppler - Lissant Bolton - Paul Tapsell - Doreen Mellor.…

xiv+324pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. Maps, Colour and black and white illustrations; a fine , as new, copy. First edition.

Oxford, Pitt Rivers Museum, 1988. Series: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Monograph 4. Small quarto (245 x 190 mm, pictorial stiff wrappers, endpaper map, 96 pp, with colour and b/w plates throughout illustrating Australian Indigenous material culture from all parts of the continent, 19th-century photographs of Indigenous Australians, natural history specimens field-collected in Australia, and early depictions of New Holland by colonial artists, chiefly drawn from the collections of the Pitt Rivers and Ashmolean Museums; foreword by Sir Zelman Cowen, and essays by Morphy, Edwards, Catherine Hart, Serena Marner, Steve Simpson, Richard Symonds and John Legge; a fine copy. Superbly illustrated catalogue to accompany the Australia in Oxford Exhibition staged at the Pitt Rvers Museum in 1988. …

orig.boards. 24x16cm, x, 306 pp Contains 14 papers. Includes: H. Morphy & M. Banks "Introduction: Rethinking Visual Anthroplogy"; A. Grimshaw "The Eye in the Door: Anthropology, Film, & The Exploration of Inner Space"; E. Edwards "Beyond the Boundary: A Consideration of the Expressive in Photography & Anthropology"; P. Loizos "First Exits from Observational Realism: Narrative Experiments in Recent Ethnographic Films"; D.P. Martinez " Burlesquing Knowledge: Japanese Quiz Shows & Models of Knowledge"; F. Howard-Freeland "Balinese on Television: Representation & Response"; G. Born "Computer Software as a Medium: Textuality, Orality & Sociality in an Artificial Intelligence Research Culture"; G. Gillison "To See or Not To See: Looking as an Object of Exchange in the New Guinea Highlands"; F. Dussart "A Body Painting in Translation"; D. Battaglia "Displacing the Visual: Of Trobriand Axe-Blades & Ambiguity in Cultural Practice"; M. Banks "Representing the Bodies of the Jains"; J. Hendry "Pine, Ponds & Pebbles: Gardens & Visual Culture"; N. Thomas "Collectivity & Nationality in the Anthropology of Art"; D. MacDougall "The Visual in Anthropology". Minor rubbing. Small cover mark. VG. Textual illustrations. (illustrator).…