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New York: William Morrow and Company, 1994. Hardcover. Good. First edition. 191pp. Light dampstain on bottom edges of pages and boards, good only lacking the dustwrapper.

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New York City Ny / London Uk: Johnson Eprint Corporation, 1968. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Fine. X, 496 Pp. Orange Cloth Lettered In Git. A Facsimile Of The Original Of 1891, Well Made, Hardcover. Fine. A Compilation Of The Most Unacceptable Human Practices. We Await A Similar Book About The Horrors Of More Modern Societies, Such As Nuclear War, Genocide, Mass Murder, Mass Torture, Ecocide And Irremediable Pollution, Mass Slow Poisonings, Waste, Pervasive Money-Grubbing, And Advertising That Conquers Thought, Which These Scatalogics Might Find Incomparably More Horrifying.

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Washington, D.C.: W. H. Lowdermilk & Co., 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. A complete copy bound with "The Miracle Play of the Rio Grande." Original dark brown cloth, back board about half-detached, spine creased and cracking, corner not worn. First page has a single paper defect (hole) about the size of a dime, removing about four words on page two, some small pencil marks here and there. Otherwise a complete a clean copy of a truly bizarre book. The title page states: "Not For General Purusal" An unusual title by John G. Bourke, who was captain of the U.S. Third Infantry, and much better known for his other titles, such as "On the Border with Crook" (1891) and "An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre: An Account of the Expedition in Pursuit of the Hostile Chiricahua Apaches in the Spring of 1883." This work contains a wealth of information from around the globe, including much on the Native Americans of the Southwest, such as the Navajos and the Pueblo tribes. Among the topics discussed are… Read More

Washington, DC: W.H. Lowdrmilk & Co, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Based upon original notes and personal observation, and upon compilation from over one thousand authorities....Not for General Perusal." 496 pp, in original brown cloth. Front hinge cracked, ink stamp of (oddly) the Peqout Engine Company of New London, Connecticut, on rear pastedown, a few pages with old repaired tears. Good or better. Bourke was a captain in the United States Army who wrote several books relating to his experiences in the West, and was particularly interested the culture and rituals of Native Americans. This extensively research book includes chapters on the Urine Dance of the Zunis (observed by Bourke in person), the Feast of Fools in Europe, the employment of human excrement in food by "savage tribes," cow dung and urine in religion, excrement gods of the Romans and Egyptians, and much more. The German edition, published in 1913, included an introduction by Sigmund Freud.

New York: American Anthropological Society, 1934. Hardcover. Fine. First edition by this publisher (previously published in 1891), with foreword by Sigmund Freud. Tall octavo. 496pp. Black cloth stamped in silver. Many uncut pages unopened. Fine, without dustwrapper (likely issued without). Study of the subject by noted Anthropologist Captain John G. Bourke.