Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner's sons, New York
Date Published: 1937
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Light edge and corner wear. Name and inscription inside. Tight binding. 416 p. incl. plates, ports., map., facsims. Includes: Illustrations, Portraits. Includes index. Maps on lining-papers. "My adventures and experiences of 'head-hunting' in the near and far corners of the earth--and how the hundred racial types in the 'Hall of man' of the Field museum in Chicago were selected and modelled on the... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Charles Scribner's, New York
Date Published: 1937
Description: American sculptress Hoffman (1887-1966) travels around the world studying primitive people, sculpting life-sized statues of the various races which were initially set up in the Hall of Man, later deemed to be racist in the 60's and dispersed. Good in green cloth, gilt titles, fraying at spine ends, small mended spine split, small dampstain to foredge. Map endpapers, photos. Good reading copy. 414p. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Cloth (hardback).
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1936), New York
Date Published: 1937
Description: A very good+ copy, very minor foxing on a few leaves. No dust jacket. xx, 416 pp. Illus. with 282 b/w photos. Inscribed by the author. Her adventures and experiences of 'head-hunting' in the near and far corners of the earth--and how the hundred racial types in the 'Hall of Man' of the Field Museum in Chicago were selected and modeled on the road. read more
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