Item #11606 The Hill Folk: Report on a Rural Community of Hereditary Defectives. Florence H. Danielson, Charles B. Davenport.
The Hill Folk: Report on a Rural Community of Hereditary Defectives

The Hill Folk: Report on a Rural Community of Hereditary Defectives

Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York: Eugenics Record Office, 1912.

Eugenics Record Office - Memoir No. 1. Hardcover. 12 1/2" X 9 1/2". v, 56pp, plus three fold-out charts bound at rear. Bound in full gray buckram over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Ex-University of Pennsylvania Library, with associated bookplate, labels, library card, etc. Moderate wear to binding, with corners turned in, scattered rubbing, and edgewear. Binding is firm. Taped 3 1/2-6" closed tears to title page and contents page. Occasional pencilled mark to pages, else unmarked. Several tears, most neat, to Chart A, as well as one neat tear along fold of Chart C. A worn, ex-library copy of this publication of the Eugenics Record Office, operating from 1910 to 1939 with a mission of gathering information on the ancestry of the American population in order to produce propaganda to further the eugenics movement. Good. Item #11606

Price: $150.00

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