The Origin of Table Manners : Introduction to a Science of Mythology

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968. Very Good+ condition in a Very Good dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($30.00). Clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. Not a remainder. Inner hinges are perfect. Pages are unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Volume 3 in the INTRODUCTION TO A SCIENCE OF MYTHOLOGY series. Illustrated with line drawings, diagrams, and maps. Extensive Bibliography (that fills 19 densely printed pages). Index of Myths. General Index. Bound in the original black boards, with an off-white cloth spine lettered in bright gold. From the Dust Jacket: "This is the third volume of the series A Science of Mythology, in which the author Claude Levi-Strauss gives a Structuralist interpretation of South-American Indian myths. The present volume which, like the others, is written in such a way that it can be read as an independent whole, extends the inquiry to the myth of North, as well as South, America, and moves on from the consideration of the significance of the different states of food, or of certain exceptional 'foods' such as honey and tobacco, to the elucidation of what the myth has to say, directly or indirectly, about the ceremonies associated with eating. In all societies, there is a code of 'tables manners', even when, as in most, there is no table.". First U.S. Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Very Good+ condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. 551pp.…