Black Eros - Sexual Customs of Africa from Prehistory to the Present Day por de Rachewiltz, Boris - 1964

George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1964. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1964. First Edition. 329 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white photographs. Colour frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm, but frontispiece detached. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Some moderate marks and staining to surfaces. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.

New York: Lyle Stuart, 1964. The author discusses sexual customs of Africa, arguing that they are evidence not of "primitive" culture but "degenerate forms of ancient societies"; he seeks extant links between modern rituals & ancient rituals depicted in rock art. Italian/Russian Rachewiltz was educated in Rome and Cairo, did field work in Egypt & Sudan and later returned to Rome to teach. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, spine ends bumped; price-clipped jacket shows minor edgewear, couple of short tears, light creasing. Text clean; 329 pages; index, extensive bibliography, some color & many b/w photos, many of topless women. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1964. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Very Good +. Edgewear to jacket.. HISTORY  329 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 23 cm. Bibliography: p. 291-320. #250224 Sex customs -- Africa Africa -- Social life and customs Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Hardcover in Dustjacket Very Good +. Edgewear to jacket.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Lyle Stuart. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Acceptable dust jacket. 1st U.K. edition. Front hinge cracked. Frontispiece lifting. Bookplate inside on front endpage. (sex customs, africa, sub-saharan, sexual behavior )

Very good. Slight tear to back cover upper spine.

New York: L. Stuart, 1964. Hardcover. Extremey mild bumping to three corners (light rubbing to rear board-rear corner), faint spotting to fore-edge, pale soiling to fore-edges and front board,, extremely gentle rubbing to spine head and foot, bright pages in tight binding, extremely mild rubbing to DJ spine head and foot, exceedingly gentle wear to DJ spine head and foot, else Near Fine(-) in Near Fine(+) DJ. in near fine dust-jacket. Octavo in blue-tan color illus DJ, white spine, gilt to spine, 329 p, chiefly b&w illus (some color), 24 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. High quality gravure b&w photo reprods. Sex customs -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.