225. [Terre humaine]. 32 volumes from the collection. - Lot 225

225. [Terre humaine]. 32 volumes from the collection. This collection comprises 32 volumes in good condition, half of which still have their headbands in place or wisely folded under the covers. 29 volumes are in publisher's bindings and dust jackets, three are paperbacks with illustrated covers. Dates range from 1969 to 1992. Titles include: Les Derniers Rois de Thulé (reissued 1989); Mœurs et sexualité en Océanie; Un village anatolien. Récit d'un instituteur paysan (Turkey); Les Quatre Soleils. Memories and reflections of an ethnologist in Mexico; Piegan. Chronicle of slow death. The Blackfoot Indian Reserve; Memoirs of an English Village. Akenfield (Suffolk); History of the French countryside; Un substitut de campagne en Egypte. Diary of an Egyptian deputy prosecutor; Their prisons. Autobiographies of American prisoners and ex-prisoners; The Greek Summer. An everyday Greece four thousand years old; Gaston Lucas, serrurier. Chronicle of the anti-hero; Le Désert des déserts. With the Bedouins, the last nomads of South Arabia, etc. Most titles are not in first editions. This famous collection by Jean Malaurie, published by Editions Plon, is dedicated to real-life literature and anthropology, and sheds a touching and erudite light on the complexity of the world's civilizations. It began in 1955 with Les derniers rois de Thulé, devoted to the Inuit. This was followed by Lévi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques, the collection's second best-selling title, which is not included in this set.