POWER AND PROPERTY IN INCA PERU

New York; Columbia University Press, 1958. Hardcover with dj. viii+190pp. Very Good condition in a Fair jacket. Unclipped jacket has small tears/chipping at edges, is a bit shelfworn with some grime, and has heavy foxing to book facing side. Green cloth boards are clean and unbumped. Owner name penned to ffep. Foxing of pastedowns and facing endpapers. Otherwise clean, unmarked, unfoxed, square and securely bound. "Depending primarily on legal data from sixteenth-century Spanish chronicles the author enters into the lively controversy over whether the Inca government was a primitive form of state socialism, a feudal aristocracy, a hydraulic bureaucracy, or a paternal or tyrannical monarchy." (cfm)