SO LIVE THE WORKS OF MEN: Seventieth Anniversary Volume, Honoring Edgar Lee Hewett [SOLD]

SO LIVE THE WORKS OF MEN: Seventieth Anniversary Volume, Honoring Edgar Lee Hewett

Edited by Donald D. Brand and Fred E. Harvey

Publisher: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and The School of American Research

1939, Hardback, First Edition, Copy #8 of 600 copies, 366 pages, with cover leaf

Inscribed by Edgar Hewett to Wayne Marzy

There are 35 numbered plates of photographs with 60 illustrations

From the Flyleaf

“In monuments of printed words, research and educational foundations, friendships and more formal social organizations—as well as in carved stone and mortared brick—so live the works of men.  A varied record of such achievements follows in the pages under the title, So Live The Works of Men.  This summary expression well epitomizes the personal philosophy of Doctor Edgar Lee Hewett, to whom the volume is dedicated; and the cover bears the reproductions of this sentiment in Doctor Hewett’s own handwriting.

“Here, under one cover, are gathered together contributions from twenty-seven friends and co-workers, leaders in the many fields of knowledge and endeavor to which Doctor Hewett gave professional attention or an amateur’s approbation.  Archaeologists, classicists, ethnologists, historians, and philologists have contributed most of the articles, but journalism, philosophy, art, musicology, physical anthropology, education, conchology, and geography also are represented. The time span covered is from the cultures of pre-Homeric Mediterranean lands and ancient Babylon to the present role of anthropology in education and the status of the modern Mongols.  The areal sweep is from the snowy Andes of Peru and Bolivia to the arid plains of Syria, and from the high plateau of Tibet to the tropical lowlands of Honduras.  Broken pots from Palestine and Southwestern molluscs, Pueblo religions and Alaskan anthropology, Mexican geography and Mongolian epic, Homeric heroes and Babylonian cuneiform, Incan empire and Sioux artist—all these and many more pass in review before the reader of So Live the Works of Men.”