coon carleton 1904 1981 (2 risultati)

British first edition. viii, 376 pages. Hardcover: H 21.5cm x L 14.5cm. Tan dust jacket soiled, spine panel mildly toned with tears and minor chipping at ends, shallow chipping at flap fold ends too. Olive cloth. Past owner's three-line ink inscription dated November 1955 on half-title page but with name obscured under swath of black marker which has carried through to verso and title/copyright leaf; ink notation on front free endpaper recto. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good- copy in a good+ dust jacket. Coon earned a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1928 and stayed with the university as a lecturer and professor until 1948 thereafter assuming a position as Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. CARAVAN offers a description of the Islamic way of life in the Middle East from Morocco to Pakistan.

Hardcover. Octavo, xli, 724, xxi pages. In Good minus condition. Spine is tan with gold print. Boards in tan cloth. Light wear to spine caps and corners, slight blemish on spine. Text block has red tinted top edge, inscription in ink on front flyleaf, shaken binding. Illustrated: b&w plates (photographs), drawings. Errata slip tipped in at title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column I. 1379904. FP New Rockville Stock.