The Great Apes - A Study of Anthropoid Life
by Yerkes, Robert M. & Ada W. Yerkes
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
New Haven: Yale University Press. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. (1953). Hardcover. Some creasing to spine. Previous owner's name. Small loss at head and tail of dust-jacket spine and corners of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 1953 fourth printing of a title first published in 1929. Uncommon in dust-jacket. xix, [1], 652, [4 (blank)] pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 259 x 180mm. Illustrated. Text in double columns. "It will stand for a long time as the basic work of reference for anyone interested in the biology of the primates." - Quarterly Review of Biology, quoted on front flap of dust-jacket. "The work is based on prolonged study of the animals themselves and on intimate acquaintance with the entire relevant literature. Gorilla, chimpanzee, and orangoutan, and also the less well-known and smaller gibbon and simang, are considered from the point of view of the history of human knowledge and behavioral characteristics. The authors' descriptions of the mode of life, social, parental, and familial relations, the course of development from infancy to maturity, emotional traits and expressions, individuality, personality, educability, the use of implements, domestication and relatoins to man, throw light on many human problems." - from dust-jacket blurb. .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23189
- Title
- The Great Apes - A Study of Anthropoid Life
- Author
- Yerkes, Robert M. & Ada W. Yerkes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- (1953)
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Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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