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  • THE CONQUEST OF FAMINE. by Aykroyd, W R.
    Aykroyd, W R.
    THE CONQUEST OF FAMINE.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Chatto & Windus, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at major famines over the years - in China, India, Ireland, and Russia - and of attempts to prevent them, including the Indian Famine Code of 1887 and more recently the role of the United Nations - but even as it acknowledges the activities of the rulers of India in pre-colonial days to ameliorate conditions when drought caused a shortage of food, it downplays the role of British colonialism in ignoring the plight of the people and in putting in place policies that caused massive death tolls. Photographs, references, index. vii, 216 pp. ISBN: 0-701120479.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 64714
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  • PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES: Portraits from Organization Life. by Hazzard, Shirley (1931-2016)
    Hazzard, Shirley (1931-2016)
    PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES: Portraits from Organization Life.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third book, a collection of eight short stories, by this Australian-American writer, one which is "a masterpiece of observation which clearly demonstrates the authors perceptive wit. Set in the 1950s, amidst the corridors and offices of the newly-created monolithic and meandering bureaucracy of 'the Organization' (read the United Nations, where Hazzard worked for 10 years) an American-based concern intent on inflicting improvement the world over, readers are introduced to an immalleable world hemmed in by regulations, memoranda and mediocrity. A place where once vibrant personalities are smothered and strangulated by red tape, and the general life-sapping realities of paper-pushing and the exacting demands of pointless tasks reign paramount." 179 pp.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (corners slightly bumped, 'H' on front endpaper, light overall edgewear to dj)

    Book ID: 83919
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  • THE INTERNATIONAL GARAGE SALE. by Kanfer, Stefan.
    Kanfer, Stefan.
    THE INTERNATIONAL GARAGE SALE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Norton, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which is part thriller, part satire - "Network correspondent Alec Lessing is summoned home from Europe for a new assignment in the remotest outpost of civilization - two buildings on Manhattan's East Side." 224 pp. . ISBN: 0-393-019861.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 61012
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  • THE POET AND THE MESSENGER, Dune-Glade and Other Poems. by Ray, Milton S.
    Ray, Milton S.
    THE POET AND THE MESSENGER, Dune-Glade and Other Poems.

    Edition: First printing.

    San Francisco: Pacific Book Co., 1946. dj. Hardcover first edition - Foreword By Benjamin Putnam Kurtz, In addition o to the long title poem, inspired by the United Nations Conference and the hopes of ending war (which was published in a separate edition by the Grabhorn Press in 1945), this includes many lyrical poems on California and "an idyll of days long past" on the Farallones Islands. Frontispiece portrait. One of 950 copies printed by Johnck & Seeger. vi, 52 pp plus the colophon.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 68434
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  • White, E. B.
    THE WILD FLAG: Editorials from The New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Conde Nast, 1946. dj. Hardcover first edition - 'We know, we Americans, what America means in the human heart; we remember its principles and we honor its record; but we tend to forget that it has its counterpart in sixty or seventy other places. This is mischievous business. It is bloody business. Reinforced with the atom, it may be fatal business.' Political commentary from the noted childrenÕs writer and essayist, in editorials written between 1943 and 1946. The theoretical case for a single world government, just as the UN was taking shape.

    Condition: Very good+ in good only dust jacket (small stamp on title page, edgewear to dj, fading to spine).

    Book ID: 23814
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