Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years
by Mead, Margaret
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0688000517
- ISBN 13
- 9780688000516
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Morrow & Co, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Third Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good + Condition. Black and white photographs. Very clean and unmarked forest green cloth binding with bold, bright and sharp gilt titles on spine. Tight and solid with intact headbands. Former owner name and address on half title page. Pages very clean and free from any markings. Jacket is clean with light to moderate wear to extremities. The story behind the pioneering achievements of one of the world's most famous anthropologists. Dr. Mead tells of her life up to World War II. She describes vividly her early field trips - to Samoa, New Guinea, Bali - and the opposition she overcame as a young woman studying alone the primitive peoples of the South Seas, then unprecedented and even shocking to many. This is the story of her personal adventure and meaning, a self-portrait of Margaret Mead as a child, student, wife, mother, and grandmother 305 pages. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. William Morrow & Co, New York, 1972.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010498
- Title
- Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years
- Author
- Mead, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0688000517
- ISBN 13
- 9780688000516
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- MARGARET MEAD 1901-1978 ANTHROPOLOGY SAMOA NEW GUINEA BALI
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography. Autobiography;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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