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Title: Desperately needs graphical editing
Review: I bought this book, having purchased Nabu's reprint of Franz Boas' _Kwakiutl: An Illustrative Sketch_, which is a beautiful, clear, first-rate reprint of the original.Unfortunately, the reprint of Hall's work is greatly inferior. The print is so faint as to be illegible in many places, and instead of editing out the (usually visible) page edges and expanding the size of the reprinted page to approximate the size of the paper on which the reprint is done, we are left with tiny print and two-inch margins (!) on each page. It seems to be a scan from a lousy photocopy.Much of the book is simply unreadable and so I can't recommend it in its present form. It would be easy enough to edit out the page edges and to expand the printed text to match the new page size. If Nabu wants me to spend the time to do so, I would be happy to play around with it.
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