A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature through History
by Matthew "Matt" Cartmill (1943- )
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good to fine
- ISBN 10
- 067493735X
- ISBN 13
- 9780674937352
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
xii+ 331 pages with figures, plates, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter stiff paper with gilt lettering to pine in black label and blindstamped cover. First edition. A leading biological anthropologist, Cartmill brings remarkable wit and wisdom to his story. Beginning with the killer-ape theory in its post-World War II version, he takes us back through literature and history to other versions of the hunting hypothesis. Condition: Binding flaw in front paste down. Jacket corners rubbed, spine head closed tear with crease else a very good copy in a very good to fine jackiet.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS000089
- Title
- A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature through History
- Author
- Matthew "Matt" Cartmill (1943- )
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good to fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 067493735X
- ISBN 13
- 9780674937352
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press 1993 Cambridge
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1993
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
- Size
- Royal octavo
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