Author: Obermaier, Hugo
Title: Fossil Man in Spain.
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1924. First edition. Pp. xxviii, 495; color frontispiece plate, 23 plates (5 in color or color-tinted), 158 text-figures (maps, photos, line drawings, plan-views). Publisher's original reddish brown cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, lg 8vo. Provides a detailed review of the archaeology and fossil human record of Spain. The volume has a long section on cave art. This is the first English language edition published for The Hispanic Society of America. It has been translated from the original 1916 edition by Christine D. Matthew. This work includes a new introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn who was vice president of the Hispanic Society of America at the time of publication of this edition. From the library of physical anthropologist J. H. McGregor with his signature on the front endpaper. Light wear to cloth at the top of the spine; a bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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