TRISTES TROPIQUES
Criterion Books, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First American edition retaining the French title, printed in Great Britain from the Hutchinson sheets of the first English edition; retitled 'World on the Wane' the following year. Verso notes the omission of chapters XIV, XV, SVI and XXXIX from the French edition. Translated by John Russell. [16], 17-404pp. Color photo frontispies and 48 B/W photo plates, 48 line drawings. 8vo, green cloth, gilt spine lettering with blue details and blue and gilt stamped ornament to front cover. Fore head corners almost imperceptibly nudges, exceedingly clean and sharp otherwise with crisp, fresh pages and tight binding; DJ edges show some rubbing, clean and bright otherwise with price of $12.50 intact. 'I have sought a human society reduced its most basic expression.' This documentation of that quest follows Levi-Strauss among the Caduveo, Bororo, Nambikwara, and Tupi-Kawahib peoples of Brazil, searching for a universal cultural kinship among all peoples. First published in France in 1955, Tristes Tropiques made the anthropologist one of the most famous intellectuals in France; Russell's translation did the same for the English-speaking world. NEAR FINE / Very Good. Item #505954
Price: $750.00