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Image for Heredity of Skin Color in Negro-White Crosses. With appendix, being abridgement of field-notes, chiefly of Florence H. Danielson, Field Worker, Eugenics Record Office.

Heredity of Skin Color in Negro-White Crosses. With appendix, being abridgement of field-notes, chiefly of Florence H. Danielson, Field Worker, Eugenics Record Office.

By: Davenport CB;

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., The Carnegie Institution of Washington: 1913

Seller ID: 160

1913 FIRST EDITION OF 'SCIENTIFIC' MONOGRAPH ON MISCEGENATION PUBLISHED BY THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION. 10 inches tall book with printed paper covers, 106 pages, 13 black & white photographs of families on 4 plates, each with tissue guards with printed tracings identifying each individual, and with facing description of each figure. 1/2 inch piece of upper corner of cover lacking, residual marks to cover from removed library labels, small library handstamp to cover, library numbers top of cover and on spine, 'withdrawn' handstamp to front free endpaper, embossed library stamp to title page, no o...
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National Vitality, Its Wastes and Conservation [Extract from Report of the National Conservation Commission (Senate Document No. 676, Vol. III, Sixtieth Congress, second session)]

By: Fisher, Irving

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1910

Seller ID: 915

1910 IRVING FISHER'S REPORT TO THE NATION ON THE IMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN PROLOGATION OF LIFE. 9 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather on red cloth boards, gilt name (John T. Swift) to front cover, marbled edges and endpapers, paginated 620 to 751, graph of survivorship curves; cover edges rubbed, binding tight, very good. Cited by Comfort in The Science of Human Perfection (2012): "Under the Committee's auspices, in 1909 Fisher wrote the Report on National Vitality, a 138-page essay that marshaled his skills as an economist. If we appraise a human life at only $1700, he wrote, and each yea...
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The Blood of the Nation: A Study of the Decay of Races Through the Survival of the Unfit

By: Jordan DS;

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston, American Unitarian Association: 1902

Seller ID: 199

1902 SCARCE FIRST EDITION EUGENIC ESSAY BY FIRST PRESIDENT OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY. 6 3/4 inch tall hardcover, 82 pages, brown paper covered boards, ivory cloth spine, top edge gilt. Bookseller's ticket to rear paste-down (Paul Elder and Morgan Shepard, San Francisco), contemporary ink owner's signature front free endpaper, light foxing to first and last pages, overall very good. DAVID STARR JORDAN (1851 - 1931) was an American ichthyologist, educator, eugenicist, and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and was the founding president of Stanford University. He was inspired by...
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Parenthood and Race Culture. An Outline of Eugenics

By: Saleeby CW;

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Moffat, Yard and Co.: 1909

Seller ID: 134

1909 FIRST EDITION OF THE BOOK THAT BECAME THE MOST POPULAR TEXT IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY EUGENICS MOVEMENT. 8 inches tall hardcover, xv, 389 pages, green cloth binding, Dedication page: 'To Francis Galton the august master of all eugenicists'. Light edgewear to covers, previous owner's name front paste-down, otherwise unmarked, very good. PREFACE: 'This book, a first attempt to survey and define the whole field of eugenics, appears in the year which finds us celebrating the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the jubilee of the publication of The Origin of Species. It is a humble tribut...
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Family Treasures. A Study of the Inheritance of Normal Characteristics in Man

By: Whitney DD;

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Lancaster, PA, The Jaques Cattell Press: 1942

Seller ID: 135

1942 ILLUSTRATED POPULAR EUGENICS TEXT FOR AMATEURS! 10 inches tall hardcover, 299 pages, blue cloth binding, gilt title on spine, 234 photographic illustrations. Covers bright and clean, previous owner's signature front paste-down, no other marks, very good. PREFACE: 'This book is written for amateurs in the study of human heredity and for those who are interested in personal inheritance of family traits. It is a simple presentation mainly by photographs of many of the normal traits appearing in families of two or more successive generations. During the past centuries nearly all of the emphas...
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