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An Anthropologist at Work
by Mead, Margaret
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First printing.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959. Stated First printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. "First Printing" stated on copyright page, 1959 on title page, in unclipped original jacket. Clean unfaded gray boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. Hint of light surface wear to corners, no bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean (very slightly yellowed), clean yellow top-stained page edges. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 583 pgs. with index. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped (6.00 on front inside flap), has shallow chip at top spine edge (1/4" depth), light rubbing. Photo of author Margaret Mead and photo of Ruth Benedict on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Margaret Mead was the pupil of anthropologist Ruth Benedict, also her friend and colleague. Here Mead sets down the biography of a person whose work she greatly admired..
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- Title
- An Anthropologist at Work
- Author
- Mead, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Stated First printing.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- ANTHROPOLOGY BIOGRAPHY RUTH BENEDICT MARGARET MEAD WOMEN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
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