AN ANTHROPOLOGIST AT WORK. WRITINGS OF RUTH BENEDICT
by BENEDICT, Ruth, ed. & commentaries by Margaret Mead
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- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Tunbridge Wells , Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959. 1st ed. . Grey Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. f/piece (facs. of poem ms.)+xxii+583, 14 photos on 8 plate pages ex-pagination; main flaw is gutter opening after half-title exposing netting, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked; covers clean with minimal rubbing but lettering dull and possibly all slightly faded, text-block feels shaken due to gutter problem. A good reference/working copy only. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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- Bookseller
- Douglas Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009666
- Title
- AN ANTHROPOLOGIST AT WORK. WRITINGS OF RUTH BENEDICT
- Author
- BENEDICT, Ruth, ed. & commentaries by Margaret Mead
- Format/Binding
- Grey Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1959
- Size
- 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- anthropology poetry biography Sapir Boas
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Douglas Books
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Tunbridge Wells , Kent
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- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.