Language: English
Published by The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville, NY, 1969
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Ben Wohlberg, Robert Baxter, Guy Deel, Sandford Dody, Ray; Houlihan (Illustrated by) (illustrator). 1st Edition/Volume 1, 1969/Winter 1969. 598 pp. Stated first edition! Vol. 1, 1969, Winter 1969 Selections issue only! Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require extra postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur an additional shipping charge. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. An Ex-Libris copy. No dust jacket.
Published by Philadelphia, PA: American Journal of Physical Anthropology; The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1931., 1931
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. Paper covers toned with some soiling and small stains; bumping, wear, and small chips at edges; "Sample Copy" stamp at top of front cover along with library and date stamps at upper left. Paged as 1-2, 355-528, i-iv, 3-10. B/w plates, charts, figures. Some leaves remain uncut at top edges and/or fore-edges. Binding is firm. Features eight articles: "Stature in old Virginians" by Robert Bennett Bean; "A contribution to the physical anthropology of Baffin Island, based on somatometrical data and skeletal material collected by the Putnam Baffin Island Expedition of 1927" by Bruno Oetteking; "The nasion and the measurement of the nose in the living" by Bruno Oetteking; "Contribution to the anthropology of the brain" by C.J. Connolly; "Relation between skin color and degree of tanning" by Forrest Clements; "A rare case of hereditary hexadactylism" by E.O. Manoiloff; "The interorbital width. A new cranial dimension. It's significance in modern and fossil man and in lower mammals. Craniometric Studies, No. 28" by John Cameron; Correlation between the interorbital width and the nasal width of the skull. Craniometric Studies, No. 29" by John Cameron.