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THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE: My Life with Carlos Castaneda.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88720More details Price: $50.00 -
MARIHUANA: An Annotated Bibliography.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Macmillan Information, 1976. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A comprehensive bibliography. Includes subject index. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by Johnson - "to Bob, with fond memories of the summers spent close to the marihuana patches on the Kentucky River. Jacqueline." 560 pp.
Condition: Some soiling to the light yellow cloth and fraying on the corners of the boards, and wear to the ends of the spine, but overall very good - tight,sturdy, intact hinges.
Book ID: 88668More details Price: $125.00 -
THE MEDICINAL AND POISONOUS PLANTS OF SOUTHERN AND EASTERN AFRICA: Being An Account Of Their Medicinal And Other Uses, Chemical Composition, Pharmacological Effects And Toxicology In Man And Animal.
Edition: Second edition.
Edinburgh: E & S Livingstone, 1962. dj. Hardcover - The second - and best - edition of this authoritative and comprehensive work. In fact, it is so signficantly changed from the original 1932 edition, that is more like a new work. The title was changed to include Eastern Africa to reflect the expanded area it covers, and the book has over 1000 additional pages. Illustrated with botanical color paintings, black and white drawings and photographs, some in color. Bibliography, European names, vernacular names, active principles, index and more. pp. xii 1457.
Condition: Very good+ in gray cloth in a very good dust jacket (previous owner's name and stamp, some rubbing to the dj). A very large and heavy book.
Book ID: 80486More details Price: $650.00 -
FOOD, DIET, AND POPULATION AT PREHISTORIC ARROYO HONDO PUEBLO, NEW MEXICO.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research Press, (1986). First edition - Includes additional reports - Ethnobotanical Pollen by Vorsila L. Bohrer and Artifacts of Woody Materials by Richard W. Lang. Arroyo Hondo Archeological Series, Volume 6. Illustrations and tables. Notes, references. Index. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-933452160.
Condition: Fine in glossy white illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 75849More details Price: $25.00 -
SAMOAN HERBAL MEDICINE: 'O La'au ma Vai Fofo o Samoa.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Honolulu, Isle Botanica - published for O le Siosiomaga Society, Inc, of Western Samoa, (1996). First edition - Includes information on traditional and modern Samoan medicine and Samoan medicinal plants. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Preface, bibliography, indexes to Scientific Names, and Samoan Names. Glossary of Samoan medical terms. Maps inside covers. 116 pp. ISBN: 0-964542625.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 55903More details Price: $25.00 -
THE WITCH DOCTOR AND OTHER RHODESIAN STUDIES (on the cover: Chiromo the Witch Doctor) .
Edition: First edition.
London: The Field Press Ltd., n.d. [1922]. Hardcover first edition - Contains 25 stories - organized in 3 categories: The Mind of the Native, Man and Beast , and White Men and Black - based on his experiences in Africa. Worthington first arrived in Africa as the personal secretary of Thorne Coryndon, the representative of the British South Africa Company, who was sent there to prepare for the British takeover of the Lozi kingdom, and when Coryndon was named Administrator of Northwest Rhodesia, Worthington continued to assist him and went on to become the first Secretary for Native Affairs there. The final legacy of his tenure was a commitment to land segregation and the development of native reserves. 235 pp.
Condition: Good in red cloth with black lettering (sunning to the spine, edges bumped, wear to the corners of the boards, previous owner's name).
Book ID: 54595More details Price: $45.00
