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PERIPHERAL VISIONS: Learning Along the Way.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A look at learning through experience of global culture - from her travels and living in Iran, the Philippines, Tibet, America and more. By the daughter of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who is herself a well-known anthropologist. INSCRIBED on the half title page. Sources. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0168595.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43046More details Price: $30.00 -
PERIPHERAL VISIONS: Learning Along the Way.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at learning through experience of global culture - from her travels and living in Iran, the Philippines, Tibet, America and more. By the daughter of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who is herself a well-known anthropologist. Sources. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0168595.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (a new, unread copy, but with a remainder line).
Book ID: 43049More details Price: $15.00 -
FELISA AND THE MAGIC TIKLING BIRD
Edition: First printing.
Honolulu, Island Heritage Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a young Filipino girl who learns how to dance the Tinikling at her village's festival despite a crippled leg. Includes the musical notation for the Tinikling Dance with the lyrics in Tagalog. Colorfully illustrated by Martin Charlot. Square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-834830159.
Condition: Fair condition only in a good dust jacket (front hinge cracked, overall edgewear to the dj)
Book ID: 71846More details Price: $13.50 -
WHEN THE ELEPHANTS DANCE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Crown, (2002.). First edition - Her first novel, the story of a family trying to survive the Japanese occupation of the Philippine Islands during World War II by banding together and telling stories. Inspired by the experiences of her father who was a young boy during the war. 372 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (an unread copy, but with toning to the pages).
Book ID: 69304More details Price: $18.00 -
WHEN THE ELEPHANTS DANCE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Crown, (2002.). SIGNED first edition - Her first novel, the story of a family trying to survive the Japanese occupation of the Philippine Islands during World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 372 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80771More details Price: $28.50 -
WHEN THE ELEPHANTS DANCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first novel, the story of a family trying to survive the Japanese occupation of the Philippine Islands during World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 387 pp. ISBN: 0-609609521.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80772More details Price: $30.00 -
KNEELING CARABAO AND DANCING GIANTS: Celebrating Filipino Festivals.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: Pacific View Press, (1997). Hardcover - Large format book full of information on the Philippine Islands, their festivals, legends and history. Colorfully illustrated by Ileana C. Lee. 48 pp. ISBN: 1881896153.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall very good in glossy illustrated boards..
Book ID: 62525More details Price: $15.00 -
STATE OF WAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Norton, (1988.). First edition - A novel of life in the Philippines, by this controversial and respected writer who became a political exile in New York in the 1970's, set during the reign of Marcos, "a time of enormous wealth and crushing poverty.. . With a spellbinding mixture of the fabulous and the terrifying, Rosca illuminates the culture, and the soul, of a nation in turmoil." 384 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 37902More details Price: $20.00
