Tribal from mark mcdonald

Fine / fine. First Edition. 265 photos, 215 color plates. Encompasing entire career, including from family archives. Over 10" x 12".

First Edition. Near Fine / near fine. 16 color plates, 87 monochrome plates. Artifacts from Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California collected in the 1780's and 1790's. Book is slightly cocked, otherwise excellent. Corners are square and the pages are clean and unmarked. The dust jacket has a partial tear and wrinkle at the head of the spine, otherwise… Read more about this item

Second Edition, 1953, limited to 1000 copies. First edition published in 1938. Softcover with dust jacket. Very good with very good- dust jacket. Numerous plates and drawings of decorative elements with descriptions. Book is lightly, but evenly toned and is coming unglued at the spine. The pages are clean and unmarked and the corners are square. Previous owners name on… Read more about this item

First Edition. Near Fine. Unpaginated, 150+ pages, color photographs and map. Exhibition catalogue at Birmingham, Baltimore and Minneapolis Museums from 1998-99. Book is in unread condition, but with a gift inscription on the inside front cover.

First Edition. Very Good / good. 65 plates in black & white, photographed by Miguel Alvarez Bravo. Spratling explores Pre Columbian objects in clay from an aesthetic standpoint. Book has a gift inscription on the front end page and slight, even toning. The corners are square the pages are clean and unmarked and the binding is tight. The dust jacket… Read more about this item

First Edition. Near Fine / Good plus. The Mimbres occupied southwestern New Mexico until about 1200 AD. Their art pottery is said to surpass anything from prehistoric America. Book contains descriptions of the 154 bowls in the Roy H. Evans collection. Book is in near fine condition without any issues at all. The dust jacket has a one inch tear… Read more about this item

First Edition. Very good plus softcover. Published in conjunction with the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. Minor sunning to spine and back edge. Corners are square and the pages are clean and unmarked.

Second edition of 1993 book. Text in Indonesian and English. Many photographs. History of beads as an art form and adornment. Book has only very slight shelf wear and is in unread condition. There is no dust jacket; I don't know if it was issued with one as there are so few examples for comparison.

First Edition. Near Fine / near fine. 15" by 24" fold out reproduction of the rock art in pouch on back end page. Laid in is another image of the rock art on heavier stock, 13" by 19". The original rock art is 13 feet high by 26 feet wide in a cave overlooking the Pecos River. Archaeologist and ethnologist,… Read more about this item

First Edition. Near Fine / very good+. The mounds of the Ohio Valley and Mississippi Valley had been a source of mystery and myth in early America. The Smithsonian finally explored the mounds and opened up the science of archeology in America. The book has pencil notes on the back end page, it is very slightly toned on the end… Read more about this item

First Edition (presumed). Near fine / near fine. The late Professor Alfred Kroeber of the Univ. of California collected folk tales from the Yurok and allied tribes in northern California and southern Oregon from 1901 to 1907. He died before he could complete his compilation. His colleagues finished the job. Thoroughly researched and comprehensive, this collection was thought, by some,… Read more about this item

Signed. First Edition - second printing. Near Fine / very good. When it was published this was the definitive work on the broad overview of turquoise jewelry of the southwest. It's still very informative with lots of photographs, both color and black and white. The book is in near fine condition, no issues except it's 50 years old. The dust… Read more about this item

Text in Spanish. The Chavin are a Peruvian highland culture that existed from 900BC to 200BC. This is one in a series by Arte y Tesoros del Peru examining Peruvian cultures. Most of the book consists of full color, full page photographs of pottery, jewelry and stonework. The book has what appears to be a binding error, in that the… Read more about this item

There are 43 b&w plates of archaeological artifacts plus one map. Each plate shows 5 to 12 examples. There is light foxing on the end papers. The corner is bumped on the top spine. The pages are clean and unmarked.

C D included. Book includes musical healing songs from 18 indigenous peoples from all over the world, from Tibet to the Amazon. The author has spent 25 years collecting these healing songs and is the founder and director of the Open Ear Center for the preservation of this art. The first edition is from 1997, this is the second revised… Read more about this item

The Ashanti are a civilization in Ghana, West Africa. They have gold there. Early traders have known about it for 3000 years. Around 1900 the locals took control of their own resource, and it is now 25 percent of their export economy. The book gives a very comprehensive explanation of all aspects of gold, including old tribal ornamentation. The edition… Read more about this item

Enku died in 1695. He was an itinerant Buddhist monk who traveled the countryside carving quick sculptures. His work is still all over the place in Japan. This book is a professional evaluation of the man, his religion and his art. 119 plates. first edition, so stated. the book is in fine condition. The dust jacket is also in excellent… Read more about this item

New, in original publisher shrink wrap. The plastic is intact and the corners are not bumped. Edition unknown.

Beautifully bound book with handmade end papers. 173 works of Japanese art from all mediums. Beautifully photographed and expertly researched. Large folio format. Book and jacket are in near fine condition with only a slight bump on the top of the spine. Dust jacket is protected in mylar. An undervalued book.

The Compton Collection is acknowledged to be the top collection of Japanese swords outside of Japan. This well published book has museum quality photographs and is large and heavy. The book, dust jacket and slipcover are in fine, almost unread, condition. Due to it's large size, I will not ship outside the United States.