Lang, Andrew. The Secret of the Totem. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905.

Price: US$37.70 + shipping

Description: Good or better hardcover. Ex-Library with all the expected stamps, labels, and stickers. Lavishly gold embossed front cover board. Tanning to block. Loose FBEP. Noticeable shelfwear and edgewear to boards. Transparent tape from previous owner applied to spine. Chipping to top of spine with 3/4 inch of cloth missing. Back board is in intact, but loose. Else, a perfectly presentable reading copy.

Seller: Biblioasis, Windsor, ON, Canada

LANG, Andrew. The Secret of the Totem. Longmans Green & Co, London, 1905.

Price: US$122.38 + shipping

Description: 8vo, pp. 215. Original gilt decorated boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and spine. Black endpapers. Preliminaries browned, some bumping to corners and spine ends, production fault light creasing across front and (less so) rear panels. A presentable copy. Front panel illustration by M.J. Ford, dated 1904. First edition of this anthropological work from the author and polymath now best known for his Fairy Book collections of stories published from 1889 onwards.

Seller: Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

Lang, Andrew. The Secret of the Totem. Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1905.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Frontispiece portrait. [ii], x, 216 (last blank) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. This book discusses the different forms and reasons for infibulation in ancient Greece and Rome, as well as the phenomenon of the "Phallus Curvatus." Also a chapter on the Arunta Animally. Original blue cloth, with pictorial gilt stamped upper cover by H.J. Ford. Foxing internally, else very good, some tipped in newspaper clippings. Bookplate of James Edge Partington Frontispiece portrait. [ii], x, 216 (last blank) pp. 1 vols. 8vo

Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.

Andrew Lang. The Secret of the Totem. Longmans, Green & Company, London, 1905.

Price: US$245.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. If DJ was issued, it is missing. Damaged to front endpaper due to library pocket being torn off. Foxing (light) to the exterior edge of pages and prelims. Binding exposed between ffep verso and flyleaf. Binding tight. No markings on text pages or major defects. Deckled edges. Creasing to bottom corner of some pages. Light wear to cover edges. ; 215 pages

Seller: True Oak Books, Highland, NY, U.S.A.

LANG, Andrew. The Secret of the Totem. Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1905.

Price: US$268.72 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1905. Octavo, [ii] (blank, list of author's other titles), x, 215 pages. Blue cloth elaborately blocked in gilt; covers lightly bumped and marked, with some minimal wear at the extremities; binding a little shaken (but sound); scattered light foxing internally; some pencilled emphases to the text; armorial bookplate ('Gilmour of Lundin and Montrave') on the front pastedown; a very good copy. 'A natural sequel of "Social Origins and Primal Law", published three years ago'; with much on the Arunta (Arrernte) and other Australian Aboriginal tribes.

Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia