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People of the Lake: Mankind and Its Beginning [Anthropology, Evolution]
by Leakey, Richard E. and Lewin Roger
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385130252
- ISBN 13
- 9780385130257
- Seller
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DeLand, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1978. Early Printing. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good.
SIGNED by Richard Leaky on the font free endpage. With laid-in program from a Convocation Feb. 1986 and newspaper clipping of the event.
Tan cloth with gilt titles and front decoration, the bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Previous owner's name on the front past-down. The dust jacket with the price of $10.95 has handling wear with some hand-soiling. A small loss at the top of the spine. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall; 298 pages with an index; illustrate with b/w photographic plates; illustrated endpages.. Discusses, the then, recent human fossil discoveries at Lake Turkana in Kenya and explains what has been learned about the evolution, anatomy, and social behavior of prehistoric man from these remains. of prehistoric man from these remains.
SIGNED by Richard Leaky on the font free endpage. With laid-in program from a Convocation Feb. 1986 and newspaper clipping of the event.
Tan cloth with gilt titles and front decoration, the bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Previous owner's name on the front past-down. The dust jacket with the price of $10.95 has handling wear with some hand-soiling. A small loss at the top of the spine. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall; 298 pages with an index; illustrate with b/w photographic plates; illustrated endpages.. Discusses, the then, recent human fossil discoveries at Lake Turkana in Kenya and explains what has been learned about the evolution, anatomy, and social behavior of prehistoric man from these remains. of prehistoric man from these remains.
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- Bookseller
- Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA]
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15738
- Title
- People of the Lake: Mankind and Its Beginning [Anthropology, Evolution]
- Author
- Leakey, Richard E. and Lewin Roger
- Format/Binding
- Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385130252
- ISBN 13
- 9780385130257
- Publisher
- Anchor Press / Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Signed book; Evolution; Anthropology -- Turkana, Lake (Kenya and Ethiopia) Kenya, Anthropology., Human evolution., Science / General
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