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In excellent condition.

Pale blue cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt. Pencil marking to rear endpaper, spine bleached. Quite scarce. A good copy. The material is for the most part extracted from the author's work, The Mothers, published in 3 volumes in 1927.

319pp. Gray cloth, blue lettering. prev. owner stamp, signature on the front free endpaper. Small spot on the front panel, otherwise a clean, unmarked copy. Price-clipped brown and gray jacket has minor chips along the extremities. in mylar sleeve. Briffault's theory was that the mother was the head of the family in the primitive societies, and the maternal instinct is the one that developed the social characters of the human mind. This volumes is the first one-volume edition, with material added since the original edition of 1927.

319pp. Gray cloth, blue lettering. prev. owner stamp, signature on the front free endpaper. Small spot on the front panel, otherwise a clean, unmarked copy. Price-clipped brown and gray jacket has minor chips along the extremities. in mylar sleeve. Briffault's theory was that the mother was the head of the family in the primitive societies, and the maternal instinct is the one that developed the social characters of the human mind. This volumes is the first one-volume edition, with material added since the original edition of 1927.