Primitive Man: JOHN MURPHY 1927 1st HB

Primitive Man: His Essential Quest, by John Murphy, D.Lit. 1927 First Edition Hardback - 341 pages. Oxford University Press, London : Humphrey Milford. No jacket. EX COLLEGE LIB. VG+ to EXCELLENT. Ex Lib from Westminster College in Fulton, MO, famous for Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech & the Churchill Memorial Library, thus a few light ex lib markings, a couple of creases. An exquisite volume! Green cloth boards, gold foil lettering & insignia on spine cover. Boards have minor soiling, corner & edge bumping. Nameplate identifying the college collection to which the volume was gifted by a benefactor pasted to inside front cover, card jacket remainder on inside back cover. Some age yellowing and tanning to some pages. Paper is fine, textured vellum, making this a heavy volume. Untrimmed page edges. Pages nice and flat and clear. No markings, tears, or other problems with inner pages. Tightly bound. Scarce volume in this edition.