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Published by Harcourt, Brace, & World, New York, 1966
Seller: Sheila B. Amdur, Coventry, CT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Library of the American Museum Natural History stamp and bookplate. xviii, 251 pp with photo section. Tips bumped.
Published by Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1966
Seller: Bill's Books, Annapolis, MD, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Protected jacket is very faded on the spine and has other minor edge wear, price of $5.95 intact, Covers in very good shape, a tilt to the spine, text heavily marked in pen by Melville scholar William Heath.
Published by Harcourt, Brace and World Inc, 1966
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, i-xviii, 251 pp, 17 black and white illustrations. An excellent copy in a dust wrapper with some fading to the spine and upper part of the front of dust wrapper.
Published by Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966., 1966
Seller: The Book Firm, Subiaco, WA, Australia
Hardcover. Some light marks to covers, otherwise good. No dustjacket. B/W plates. 251pp.
Published by Harcourt Brace & World, 1966
Seller: Sheafe Street Books, Portsmouth, NH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Glue residue on inside of front board due to a no longer attached brief biography of the author which may be the remains of the original dust jacket. Binding is solid. Clean & well preserved copy. Inscribed by Author.
Published by Constable and Company (1966), London, 1966
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. "Review Copy" rubber stamp on front endpaper. Previous owner's signature. 5mm tears and chips to margins of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; xviii, 251, [3 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 17 illustration on 4 plate leaves. Blue boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 137mm. "This book is an anthropological and historical study of sexual practices in a remote, and therefore minimally westernized, Polynesian area." - from dust-jacket blurb. Contents: Introduction; The Marquesas; Reproduction; Infancy and Childhood; Puberty and Adolescence; Marriage and Adulthood; Sex and Art; Religion; The Marquesas and Polynesia; The Probable Causes of Change; Appendix I. Venereal Disease; Appendix II. Medication for Arresting Premature Labor; Appendix III. Medication for Menstrual Problems; Appendix IV. Vaginal Medication for Infants; Appendix V. Factors Affecting the Marquesan Population; Bibliography; Index.