A very finely preserved first edition of Carleton Stevens Coon's seminal work categorizing the various ethnicities of the world according to their supposed evolutionary development by chronology Though the work is largely focused on European races, he makes it clear as he approaches Morocco, and the southern and eastern regions of Europe that the closer one gets to Africa, the more recent [and thus incomplete or underdeveloped] the evolutionary development and the further from being fully "homo sapiens." 

His works were among the most significant of the eugenics movement to be imbibed by Adolf Hitler & Co., and his follow up work, further clarifying the non homo sapiens status of black Americans, was used as bedrock, scientific testimony in Brown vs. the Board of Education the American, in efforts to retain racial segregation in schools. 

A fine example, containing dozens of pages illustrating the various species and "sub-species" of humans which bear an eery similarity to the racial profile photographic records used in Germany. 

An excellent account of Coon's influence on segregationist and racist movements of the 20th century can be found HERE, beginning on p.29.

[Eugenics - Segregation - Board Vs. Board of Education]. Coon, Carleton Stevens. Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University. The Races of Europe. New York. The Macmillan Company. 1939. First Edition. 739pp.

Near fine in original natural linen finish, very slightest rubbing at extremities and a minor pencil ownership signature on the printed ffep. As fine a copy as it is possible to obtain.