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The Great White Mantle: The Story of the Ice Ages and the Coming of Man
by Woodbury, David O
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/VG
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1962 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Viking's regular statement indicating a first edition is on the copyright page, but the dust jacket identifies this as Popular Science Living Library Program edition. Blue boards, red titles on spine, charts on endpapers, ix, 214 pp, 4 ff b & w plates, index. Rear free endpaper creased, else fine. DJ rubbed with 3 cm tear to top of front panel; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "Focusing on [ice ages of] the last million years, Woodbury traces the history of man's emergence against the background of the ice: the first tentative excursion of the ape into the life of an intelligent being, his use of crude tools and his arrival at the threshold of civilization. All along the line it is shown how the ice, first attacking, then retreating by irregular turns, played a major role in man's development, grooming him to survive because he was the first to have the intelligence to stand his ground and fight back." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Near Fine/VG. 21 X 14½ cm.
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- Bookseller
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SSAN00042
- Title
- The Great White Mantle: The Story of the Ice Ages and the Coming of Man
- Author
- Woodbury, David O
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Weight
- 2.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Anthropology Prehistory Ice Ages
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
- Size
- 21 X 14½ cm
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
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