Coming Of Age In Samoa

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Foreword by Franz Boaz. About Fine in a Very Good early-issue jacket and obi, unclipped ($3.00), generally toned, a few small chips and stains. Blue buckram with silver gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, contemporaneous signature on the… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo, 297pp., illustrated. A crisp clean, very good copy in the publisher's deep blue cloth, lacking the rare dust jacket. Spine darkened, a few faint stains to front board, large area of sticker residue to the front paste-down, and near-contemporary ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, else… Read more about this item

Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1943. First Edition. Softcover. Fair Condition. Foreword by Franz Boas, introduction by author, five appendices, index and glossary. Black and white photograph of author to the verso of the half title page. Paperback binding with black coloured title to the front panel and back strip. Margaret Mead's anthropological… Read more about this item

New York: The Modern Library, 1953. Hardcover . Used - near fine/Near fine. “First Modern Library Edition” stated. Barely perceptible diagonal soft crease impression to prelims. Price sticker residue on front pastedown with just a bit of loss to endpaper from previous owner’s attempt to remove sticker. Head of spine cloth slightly frayed. In price clipped dust jacket… Read more about this item

Mentor / N A L, 1963-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. Clean and square, Near Fine, 14th printing 1962, clean text, well bound, a bit of tanning to some interior pages but reads fine. 1962, May have different cover than pictured.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. 297pp. Rear hinge cracked, top corner clipped on front fly, cloth modestly soiled with spine slightly cocked, very good lacking the dustwrapper. The author's first book and an important pioneering anthropological survey.

Morrow, 1973. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Pages with some age toning. Minor edgewear overall. Otherwise clean and intact throughout. Please see image. 170 pages.

Paperback. Acceptable.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1928. On publication, Coming of Age in Samoa drew both enormous popular attention and academic interest, establishing Mead as a leading figure in American anthropology and generating a heightened awareness of ethnographic study in the United States. Based on a 9-month study conducted in a small village of 600 people on the island… Read more about this item

A very good- paperback with flaws on cov. as in image, signs of aging, text very good+. 240p. 18x11cm. 200gr. In 1928, Martha Mead published Coming of Age in Samoa, an anthropological work based on field work she had conducted on female adolescents in Samoa. In Mead's book that became a best seller and unleashed a storm of controversy,… Read more about this item

American Museum of Natural History, 1973. Paperback. Good. Good. 1973 American Museum of Naturel History. Special Members' Edition. With a new preface by the author. Foreword by Franz Boas. Paperback. 170 pages. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Spine has a single crease. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Front cover has some light creases. Pages lightly and uniformly… Read more about this item

MENTOR BOOKS, 1971. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

N. Y.: Dell Books, 1970. An uncreased spine with very light edge rubbings. No store stamp. With a new preface by the author.. 3rd Printing. Paperback. Very Good +.

New York: The Modern Library, 1953. 2nd Thus. Fine. With a forward by Franz Boas and a new preface by the author. Second or later edition from The Modern Library in a price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket now in protective mylar backed by paper with some toning to spine and edges of jacket and a few very tiny chips,… Read more about this item

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1973. Softcover. Near Fine. Special members edition. Mass market paperback. 170pp. Pages age-toned, edges lightly bumped, near fine.

Penguin, 1977-10-26. paperback. Acceptable. 7x4x1. 1966 printing Pelican. Cover differs from the one shown. A readable copy of the book. Pages are yellowing.

HarperCollins Publishers, 2001. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Harper Perennial, 1971. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Pelican, UK, 1977. Paperback. Book Condition: Good. Moderate reading wear. Clean interior..