First Penthouse Dwellers of America

161 pages with figures and plates. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with red lettering to spine and front cover with an a pictorial. Second edition. Ruth Murray Underhill (August 22, 1883 – August 15, 1984) was an American anthropologist. She was born in Ossining-on-the-Hudson, New York, and attended Vassar College, graduating in 1905 with a degree in Language and Literature. In 1907, she graduated from the London School of Economics and began travelling throughout Europe. During World War I, she worked for an Italian Orphanage run by the Red Cross. After the war, she married Charles C. Crawford and published her first book The White Moth. Her marriage ended in 1929 and by 1930 she decided to go back to school to learn more about human behavior. After speaking with Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict in the Anthropology Department at Columbia University, she decided to pursue the field, graduating in 1937. She wrote numerous books on Native Americans and helped to dispel many myths about their culture. Condition: . Back end pages stained, previous owner's name on front end paper, page ends soiled. Jacket soiled, corners, spine ends rubbed, some staining and writing on back else a very good copy in like jacket.