Flesh and Blood: A History of the Cannibal Complex by Tannahill, Reay - 1975

Madison Books, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Madison Books, Incorporated. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

UNKNO, 1975-01-01. hardcover. Good. 9x6x1.

UNKNO, 1975-01-01. hardcover. Good. 9x6x1.

UNKNO, 1975. hardcover. Good. 9x6x1. Dust jacket has edge wear, taped edge tears and some edge loss. Text unmarked, pages clean and bright, binding tight. Ships Next Business Day.

New York: Stein and Day, 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover. Used; Good/Good. 1/2" tear in DJ; a bit of foxing and soiling to edges. The practice of eating one's fellow human beings is shocking to most of us today. But it was respectable 2000 years ago, and motivations have included religion, revenge, justice, and war, as well as starvation.

Stein and Day, 1975. Hardcover. Good.

New York: Stein and Day, 1975. -----Quarter bound in brick red cloth orange boards with gilt, 209 pages plus 16 pages of b & w photos and illustrations, stamped name on ffep, dust jacket is in Very Good condition with minor edge wear, 2 small closed tears along bottom edge. "Reay Tannahill, after many encounters (in the literary sense) with cannibalism while researching her brilliant Food in History, has written the first book in English to cover every aspect of the subject." Contents include: List of illustrations / Intro: Flesh, Blood and Spirit / Eating People is Wrong / The Centuries of Hunger / The Red Elixir / Blood for the Gods / The Nonconformists / Werewolves and Vampires / Who's for Dinner? / Survival Kits / Postscript / Bibliography / Notes / index. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Illus. by Cover Illustration: taken from "The Last Judgement" by… Read More

Stein and Day, New York: 1975., 1975 209p. Illustrated. 8vo. Original cloth backed paper boards. Original dust jacket. OCC 2 0.0. Hardcover.

US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st thus.[Originally published Stein&Day, 1975.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to protected dw/dj but new fep.Colour pictorial upper wrap, detail taken from "The Last Judgement" by Hieronymous Bosch.Miniscule rubbing to head of dw/dj spine/backstrip and bottom front corner.Salmon-pink paper-covered boards with gilt letters to a purple cloth blind spine and plain white endpapers.Fore-edges near pristine as are the contents.US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,209pp includes 16pp b/w contemporary illus,10pp bibliography,notes and an index. Is cannibalism the oldest taboo in the world? By no means.Man has been eating his fellow man for over half a million years,and only in the last two thousand years has the practice ceased to be respectable.Tannahill,after many encounters (in the literary sense) with cannabilism while researching her book Food in History,has written the first book in English to… Read More