The Ethnography of Franz Boas; Letters and Diaries of Franz Boas Written on the Northwest Coast from 1886 to 1931

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. First Thus. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's slate grey cloth titled and decorated in red to spine and front board. Dustjacket. [xxx]; 331pp. Clean and sharp, very light bumping to spine ends and a little shelfwear; internally clean, bright red endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, 6pp of black and white photographs; in a clean and striking example of the dustjacket with some very minor scuffing and wear, and a little soiling to the white rear panel. A very good, bright copy indeed.

An examination of the work and methodology of the eccentric field anthropologst Franz Boas, whose unconventional style and prolific projects make a somewhat divisive figure. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, noted poet, tranlsator, and professor of anthropology, with his bookplate.