Heredity and Social Fitness; A Study of Differential Mating in a Pennsylvania Family
by Key, Wilhelmine E. Key
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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About This Item
Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1920. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 102pp. Gilt lettered blue buckram, 2 fold-out charts. Extremities very lightly rubbed, faint spot near top edge, contents tanned but clean. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR in pencil on front free endpaper "Mrs. Francis B. Key, Somers, Conn." , short margin tear to one chart. An attempt to promote selective breeding by means of segregation and sterilization of "the socially unfit.
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- Bookseller
- Old Bookshelf (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001301
- Title
- Heredity and Social Fitness; A Study of Differential Mating in a Pennsylvania Family
- Author
- Key, Wilhelmine E. Key
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Carnegie Institution of Washington
- Place of Publication
- Washington
- Date Published
- 1920
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- Heredity Eugenics Mating Lineage Singed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science and Mathematics; Medicine;
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- Buckram
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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