Savage Gentlemen (Philippines)

D. Van Nostrand Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No DJ. Vintage Hardcover, First Edition 1929 D. Van Nostrand Company New York 249 pages. Very Good+, No DJ. Just a touch of shelf/edge wear to textured (leaflike) orange/yellow cloth with black spine titles and black illustration of man using a blowgun on the front panel - corners sharp. Minor sun-darkening to spine. On the 2nd FEP, Inscription to previous owner - To Judith B. Gill, Xmas 1929 From Her Gentlemen Friend. Green and white endpaper illustrations (by Robert Rotter) from the 47 black and white plates. 23 chapters. Mabel Cook Cole (April 18, 1880 – November 13, 1977) was an American writer and anthropologist. She specialized in the study of ancient man and in studying the people of the Philippines. Her books include The Story of Primitive Man, The Story of Man, Savage Gentleman, and Philippine Folk Tales. Splendid chronicle of the author and her husband (Dr. Fay- Cooper Cole of the Scopes Trial fame) as they spent four years together studying "the wild tribes of the remote islands of the Philippines, living with pigmies and tree dwellers, cannibals and head hunters." Fay-Cooper Cole (8 August 1881 – 3 September 1961) was a professor of anthropology and founder of the anthropology department[1] at the University of Chicago; he was a student of Franz Boas. Most famously, he was a witness for the defense for John Scopes at the Scopes Trial. A very handsome First Edition minus the DJ. LOC SSE-03