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New York:The Viking Press, 1931. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York:The Viking Press. 1931. 1st edition. xxiv+233pp. Illustrated, with folding map. Hardcover. Beige boards lightly siled and gently shelfworn along edges. Page edges lightly soiled. Internally, map endpapers clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight and hinges intact. A very good, clean copy.

Viking Press. Used-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1931. Hardcover. 8vo., 233 pp., Former owner's inscription .

New York: The Viking Press, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Tan cloth stamped in brown on spine and front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Short closed tear to top edge of front free endpaper. Small number label on title page; minor soiling on one page, else interior clean and unmarked, pages crisp. 63 illustrations, including many photographs on plates. Dust jacket chipped; price clipped; spine abrasion; in an archival mylar sleeve. pp. xxiv, 233. A narrative of personal observation of the lives and customs of the Djuka (Ndyuka) people of Surinam, based on the expeditions of Dr. Morton Kahn, which he made iin 1927, 1928 and 1930. The Djuka, descendants of escaped West African slaves, had preserved preserved what was described as a replica of 18th century society in West Africa. Includes bibliography and index. The author, Morton Charles Kahn, Sr. (1895-1959), was an explorer, bacteriologist and public health specialist. He served on the faculty of the Cornell University Medical College between… Read More

New York: The Viking Press, 1931. First Edition. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). VG/G, Cloth. 233pp. Text. Folding map. Photographs. Plate. Bibliography. Index. Bound in tan cloth boards, with illustrated dust jacket (minor chipping on botton edge, and 1/2" chip on spine crown).

New York: Viking, 1931 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Endpaper maps, folding map (with a split along the fold), and numerous plates with photographic reproductions of the Djuka. Very good in chipped d.j.

Viking Press, 1931. On the borders of Devil's Island and into the jungles of Guyana, blacks of West African descent went back to living with nature after revolting against their Dutch suppressors, wear to dustjacket and spine discoloured and taped up, hinges weak, unmarked, illustrated with halftones and drawings, 233pp, VG/FAIR.. 1st U.S. Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fair.