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Frazer, Sir James George. London: Percy Lund Humphries & Co., 1938. First Edition. 4to. Buckram in Dust Jacket. Ethnographic Monograph. Very Good -/Good +. xii, 578 pp, 2 b&w photographs, 8 full-page maps. Subtitled "A Copious Selection of Passages for the Study of Social Anthropology from the Manuscript Notebooks - Arranged and Edited from the MSS. by Robert Angus Downie", this is one of four volumes of Frazer's "Anthologia Anthropologia" - the fruit of half a century's labours compiling source material about the world's "Native Races" into ethnographic studies of each continent. An internally handsome example showing some age-toning at the edges of the textblock along with discreet mending to the front hinge and a small tear at the spine. Its fragile, typically lacking dust jacket bears some light soiling, abrading, age-toning, and a few chips missing at the top and base of the spine. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 001048