Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap by Mead, Margaret - 1970-09-10

NY: Doubleday. Good. 1970. Hardbound. 0370013328 . 87 pages .

Garden City Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1970., 1970. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Octavo, .hardcover, first endpaper removed else VG in Very Good white dust jacket in mylar. 113 pp. Black gilt-stamped cloth The lost people of post WW II, heirs to a legacy of war, prejudice, economic and political injustice...Here is a book addressing these issues.

"As usual the distinguished anthropologist displays a stunning intuition illumined by anecdotes drawn from her lifelong fieldwork, but also, as usual with intuitionists, you find you want to ask more pointed questions as you read, pick a hole in an argument here or there and finally ask who are the teachers from whom the young are learning if they are to teach the old."  This is a lovely book:  Black cloth over boards with gilt print on spine and front board; 91 pages; tight binding - no reader's crease or page separation; corners are square and sharp; no external or internal marks; no chips, tears or creases in the book; dust jacket displays light tanning - now protected by archival brodart wrapper; text block is bright and clean; first edition.

The Bodley Head. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Good dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped. In protective mylar cover. (Culture, Social Change, Sociology)

The Bodley Head Ltd, 1970. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:0370013328

Bodley Head, London, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 300 g; XXIV, 99, (3) pages with appendices and bibliographical note. In original orange papered boards, lightly bumped at the heel of the spine, original bookseller's sticker on front paste down, ownership detailed at the top of the front free end page. Illustrated dustjacket has faded slightly of the spine section. No other damage to describe. "Today, the central problem is commitment: to what past, present or future can the idealistic young commit themselves? ... It is my conviction that in addition to the world conditions that have given rise to the search for new commitment and to this possibility of no commitment at all, we also have new resources for facing our situation, new grounds for commitment. It is to this theme that this book is addressed." -- Rear panel blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity… Read More

The Bodley Head, 1975-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!