Leslie milne (21 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: New. pp. 468.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: acceptable. Acceptable: The book has obvious wear. It may have some damage to the cover, but its integrity is intact. The binding may be slightly damaged, but its integrity is still intact. There may be possible writing in the margins and underlining and highlighting of text, but there are no missing pages or anything that would compromise the legibility or understanding of the text. See the seller's listing for full details and a description of any imperfections.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Good tight copy, age tanning, slight fading to spine area.

Zustand: New. In English.

xxii+289pp. 8vo. Original laminated wrappers. Small stamp and sticker on ffe. Black and white photographic illustrations; map frontis. A near fine copy.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover, no jacket. Clean, unmarked, tightly bound. Light wear. (This is an unabridged reprint of the original 1910 edition.) Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available! (Heavy books & sets may require extra shipping charges.).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Hardback with DJ - not ex library. Published in 1976 by Robert Hale, London. Slight fading to spine otherwise a good, clean copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. BS-5E*.

Zustand: Very Good. reprint of 1910 ed. pbk. 21cm. xxii,289pp.

Zustand: New. 288.

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. This 2001 reprint of Milne's 1910 book offers a colorful account of the Shan States, where the author, Mrs. Leslie Milne, lived from 1906-1907, six months in Hsipaw and then fifteen months in the Namkhain valley of the Shweli River. For most of the time she was the only foreign resident; being a member of the Royal Asiatic Society and Bombay Natural History Society no doubt prepared her to live the life of an explorer to the full. She studied most aspects of Shan life, particularly family life, illustrating her observations with a host of remarkable photographs. Language, folklore, villagers at work, crafts, medicine and charms, Shan cosmology, are all discussed in lively anecdotes, peppered.…

BINDING - Rebound Half Leather. Zustand: CONDITION - used/Average. 289 Pages. Illustrated. 2-3 Pinholes On Select Pages.

First edition. xxiv + 289 pp w/index. Faint offsetting to endpapers, else near fine in full blue cloth with gilt letting to spine and black stamping to front panel. No dust jacket. Illustrated with b&w photographs and one color plate. From the library of E. Michael Mendelson (Nathaniel Tarn) with his pencil initials on the first leaf.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo, pp viii, 428. Illustrated with 20 photo plates. Bound in green cloth covered hard boards, gilt to spine. Most pages remain uncut. The book is clean and unmarked inside, binding tight and square, boards clean, spine just a little sunned, overall in Near Fine condition. An excellent copy.…

Green Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. viii, 428pp, illustrated with black & white photographic plates, edges roughly trimmed, pp185-188 uncut, pages clean and crisp, green cloth with gilt spine lettering, spine a little sunned - a very good copy. Size: 8vo. Travel.

EA. Mit Frontispiez und weiteren 19 Tafeln mit fotograf. Abb. sowie weiterhin etlichen Zeichnungen im Text. OGLn.-Band mit Rückengoldprägung. vi, 1 Bl., 428 S. Gr. 8°. Bibl.-Expl. mit kleinen, (leicht entfernbaren) Resten von Rückensignaturen, ExLibris auf Vorsatz und 1 Stempel auf der Rückseite des Titelblattes. Nur der vordere Vorsatz mit einigen Stockflecken, ansonsten sehr sauber und vollständig.…

Oxford 1924, Clarendon. Green cloth, very good, 428p., 20 bw photos, map, 15 illustations, index, appendix, 14.5 x 22.5cm very clean exlibary, no spine marks, else clean, solid copy. FIRST EDITION AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY A nice work, covers history, the baby & children, boys, girls and young men and maidens, marriage, house, home and village life, fruit growing, paddy cultivation tea &c. Trials by ordeal, medicine, charms, omens, childbirth, death customs. Religion, Palaung Buddhism, sprit-worship, cosmogony, dreams and proverbs, riddles, folk-tales and more subjects. * A valuable primary resource, insight into the Palaungs of the Shan States [Burmese], Katur tribes, they live in or near Namhsan, the capital of Tawngpeng. The author first studied Palaungs in 1906-1908 then she learned Namhsan, the language of the tribe. An excellent ethnographic resource. * AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY: The book is signed on the first fly leaf by the author in pencil, a presentation to her friend, "Nannie McConnel from her affectionate friend, the author M.L. Milne." * CONDITION: The book is in excellent bright condition, even though it was an ex-library copy it has one small stamp on top of signatures and again on verso of title page, the inside back endpaper has "withdrawn" stamped neatly, otherwise NO MARKS. *.…