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LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude.

A World on the Wane.

Translated from the French by John Russell.

Publisher: London: Hutchinson, 1961

Stock code: 62805

Price: £75 Currency Conversion

First English language edition, first impression. Originally published in France in 1955 as Tristes Tropiques.

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and roundel to upper board in gold and blue, grey endpapers, blue top-stain. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece, 48 plates from photos. An excellent copy in the dust jacket that is lightly rubbed at the extremities.

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