Coming of Age in Samoa; A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization

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 front endpaper, clean otherwise. Mead's classic anthropological study of adolescence. Incredibly scarce in a dust jacket, scarcer still in the obi with Havelock Ellis's blurb.