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96 pages. Features: Nice one-page ad for the Lockheed Constellation features illustration of cabin scene in-flight; Attractive color Ford ad features Green car being loaded with luggage; photo of Robert Moses of Chicago wins bubble-blowing contest; Ku Klux Klan article with photo of burning cross and shrouded members; Russian Spy - Nicolai Gregorovich Redin; New Gropings with the Atom; Cordell Hull prepares memoirs; Nice color-photo Camel cigarette ad says "More Doctors Smoke Camels"; Very nice color one-page Coke ad features spring cleaning scene; Gromyko walks out of UNO; Ad for the Town House Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles; Very cute color Schlitz beer ad features bear in nighshirt raiding fridge at night; Guns over Trieste; The Austrian Larder; Arthur Axmann - article with photo; Famine news from Europe; Possible trouble in India - with photo of Gandhi; Trouble for Jewish sports team in Vienna; Shanghai - inflation and theft; Kendo photo from Japan - it has been outlawed by the Allies; Very nice color centerfold ad for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Nice one-page color-portrait of Mr. Mervyn Le Roy in Calvert Whiskey ad; Ontario liberalizes liquor laws; Five more persons accused of Russian spying in Canada; The Capitolio Diamond Mystery; Argentina fears Yankee 'Nazi' threat; Brief obituaries for Noah Beery Sr., Charles F. Hurley, Martin L. Davey, George Washington, Field Marshal Viscount Gort; Shirley Jane Vetter regains sight after her baby is born; Oil - the big three tangle in the middle east; Color Union Pacific ad features Utah's Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks; Yellow Bole Pipe ad; Mr. Baruch on the Extension of OPA; Billiard article and photo on Willie Mosconi; Attractive one-page color ad for the Martin 2-0-2 aircraft; Gerald Kersh lifts veil on sordid side of London; Color-photo Studebaker ad shows Don Wyman and his father grinding metal while J.F. Rogers and son Peter perform heat-treating; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
112 pages. Features: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; Nice one-page Lockheed ad features cutaway illustration of their Constellation aircraft; Great one-page photo ad for Jeep shows its unique applications; Nice color Borden's ad features Elsie the Cow; *Sweet* one-page color 1946 Lincoln car ad; 10,000 tons of horsemeat will be sent to Europe in 1946; Should Japan be annexed or put under U.N. trusteeship; One-page color ad for National City Bank features painting by Rockwell Kent and photo of John Willett; Famine Specter Stalks Old World in footsteps of war and crop failure; German fashion photos; Photo of Rudolf Hess and review of his (alleged) offer to the British; Photo of election rally in Russia; Nice color Kodachrome ad; Attractive color TWA ad; Palestine - Wrong Raid - Jewish terrorists raid the King's African Rifles camp near Tel Aviv; The Ainu Comes Back; Canada tests its icebound barrens with column of mechanized troops - "The Musk-Ox Trail"; Air Force finds danger in peace that takes its most skilled men; Attractive color-illustrated Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. ad shows train stopped by snow; How Bikini became the Bomb-Testing Ground; British war brides arrive stateside; Housing program latest answer to inflation -strike - shortage riddle; Nice color Kinsey whiskey ad; Behncke guides pilots' union; Nice one-page ad for Porto Rico Line "Who Made Rosita's New Dress?"; Nice New Haven Railroad ad; The Army's Eniac Computer - a roomful of brain (with photo); Color one-page ad for Seiberling Tires; Lord Calvert Whiskey ad features color portrait of actor John Boles; Cute one-page Dixie Cup ad features young boy with soda; Classy 2/3-page two-color ad for Gaylord Boxes; Boxing's Nat Fleisher; Hoopster Red Rolfe - photo; Photo-illustrated article on composer Bartok; Nice color Schlitz Beer ad shows charming outdoor gathering; George Arliss, 1868-1946; Japs escape to movies for Love and no Kisses; Metro. Oakland, California ad shows large tracts of land awaiting development; Ad for New Hampshire encourages industrial development; and more. Clear tape along spine. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Ominous one-page photo ad shows Boeing B-29s being assembled in huge factory; Japs say bombardment of Luzon was terrible - major coverage; Why Nazis caught Allies Off Base on the Ardennes Front; General Ernest N. Harmon; Reproduction of German propaganda piece which shows battle-weary Allied troops on the Saar front that draft dodgers at home are living it up with the lady-folk; Great GM color ad features firing tank and Hydra-Matic transmissions; Sweet one-page ad for the Blue Radio Network features Alan Young - 1944's most promising star; Nice color Schlitz beer ad; Eyewitness to starvation in Italy (with photos); Archibald MacLeish; Photo of Polish government in exile; Australina drought; Nice color-illustrated military ad for Borg-Warner; Firestone Tire color centerfold ad; King Boris III of Bulgaria; Incredible Warsaw photos shows skeletons of horses from which residents have stripped every bit of meat; Packard car ad features letter from Mustang pilot overseas; Photo of Hitler walking through bomb damage; Photos of Betty Morrissey who tends lighthouse at the Northern tip of Prince Edward Island (PEI); Great one-page color ad for White Trucks shows freight being loaded; US domestic manpower push; Photo/ad shows John B. Kennedy of the American Society of Refrigerating Engineers; One-page *FANTASTIC* color-photo ad for Kodak will thrill silver-bugs! - shows dozens of huge silver bars being stacked for photographic use behind watchful armed guard; Nice one-page color Ford ad; Brief obituaries for Dr. John F. Condon, Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, Romain Rolland; Army study of Marihuana (Marijuana) smokers points to better ways of treatment; GI Surgeon Sgt. Frank Palco of Roth, VA; Photos of US propaganda being loaded into shells to be dropped over Germany; Photo of swimmer Ann Curtis; Nice one-page color ad for American Airlines features the new DC-6 flagship; Nice color ad for Chrysler's fluid drive; Nice photo ad for Bitumous cole features military theme; Anglo-American relations; Nice color military ad for Studebaker; and more. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
24 pages. Contents: How Mr. and Mrs. Consumer are the people who will win this war of the Great Depression; Organized Labor Sees its Destiny Fulfilled as Dominant Partner in American Industry; Why Japan Dumps Here; Inquiry into Detroit Bank Failures - Father Charles E. Coughlin, "Detroit's Radio Priest" is mentioned with a small illustration; Big Game in Forests; "Sleeping Sickness" (a.k.a. encephalitis lethargica) epidemic spreads; Plans to convert the Ocean Greyhand/Leviathan to a floating amusement park (with photo); Eastern seacoast hurricane damage great; Foreign News - includes mention of Hitler and the Saar, plus cannibalism due to starvation in the Ukraine; World Wheat Pact to Fix Prices and Exports; Raccoons are Dunking their food - not washing it; Current Events; NRA (National Recovery Act); Carlos M. de Cespedes; Money to help hog farmers; Marketing; Capital Chat; Is This Termite (White Ant) Invasion a Menace?; Science; Aviation; "The Greatest Jews'-Harp Ever Made"; Question Box; Italy- Austria Pact is Blow to Nazis; Photo of Billy Sunday; The History of Bloomers (fashion); George McKee, of Anderson SC, reflects on why the current depression is not so bad - in contrast to how he grew up; and more. Average wear. Age yellowing. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
24 pages. Inflation? - Rising Prices Give Rise to Official Concern - with photos of Mariner S. Eccles and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace; Sit-Down Strikes; School disaster in New London, Texas; Amelia Earhart crashes on Howland Island in the mid-Pacific; Great photo of 10 men carrying huge carpet to be used for King's coronation at Westminster Abbey; Rebel Rout in Spain; Article on fascinating alleged love triangle between Benito Mussolini, Madeleine la Ferriere and Count Charles de Chambrun - whom she shot; Reich Finances - brief article with photo of Hjalmar Shacht; China's Famine; "Horror Coma" experienced by Mrs. Helen Wills - photo of her with Dr. Damuel Marcus; Photo of Finnish first lady Mrs. Kaisa Kallio, wife of Kyosti Kallio; Editorials; Feature article on Judge Louis Dembitz Brandeis, with photo; The Movie World - with photo of Bette Davis; Dr. Hans Luther is relieved of his post as German Ambassador in Washington - with photo; Mui Tsai - Chinese girl babies are often human chattel sold for a price; Photo of Kakike Saito, Queen of the Cherry Blossoms; Back page photos of bull-fighting in Mexico. Vintage ads; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
24 pages. Features: Spain - The War Turns In Full Fury on Civilians; The National Scene; Movies and Labor; Conditions in Puerto Rico; Americana; News from Ireland and Japan. Photo of Filipino women who have now won voting rights; Friction resumes between Hitler/Nazis and the Pope/Catholics; Egypt and Foreign Rights; Spain update - with photo of General Franco with General Mola; Interesting international news bits; Famine in 2137?; Dr. Margaret Wylie says it is more or less a scientific fact that blondes, more often than brunettes, are mothers of twins; Rebuff to Nazis - loss of academic freedom in German universities; "Cultural Olympics"; Photo of Trudi Schoop; Religion and Society; 14 Burlesque/strip-tease palaces are padlocked in New York; The Relief Problem; Photo and major article on circus press agent Dexter William Fellows; Capital Chat; The Movie World; Back cover circus photos; Vintage ads; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: the physiology of starvation; cable television; the object in the world of the infant; the lunar rocks; carbon 14 and the prehistory of Europe; how living cells change shape; Mossbauer spectroscopy; the measurement of the 'man-day'. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
viii + 143 [i.e. 286] + [vii] pp., with one blanco ff. between f.111 and 112, with index, Original 1574-edition, with numerous woodcut initials, 21cm., 19th cy. hardcover binding (spine in leather with gilt title, corners bit bumped, in good condition), marbled endpapers, upper left corner of all pages is lacking some paper (not affecting the text, except for - at some pages - the first word of the repeated chapter name mentioned on top of each page), text is very well readable and clean except for some vague spots at some pages, old ex-libris stamp and ex-dono on title page, [German title: "Durch Gottes segen, newe Speisskammer und Speiskeller in vorstehenden hungers nöten, Landstheuwerungen, und Kriegsslaeufften, sampt anmuetiger Haussapotecken und Kuchenartzney ; dergleichen niemals vorhin publiciert worden". This is a scarce complete edition of this interesting work discussing nutrition during wartime and famine. It contains numerous receipts for making bread, the use of fruit, liquor, etc. The text is written in Latin, but the shouldernotes in the receipts are in German. Ref.: Oberle 67 "Ouvrage rare et très curieux", Vicaire Sp.804f.: "Ouvrage assez rare", Wellcome I,6125], W93823
Previous owner's small neat label to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and the tiniest bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little creasing to edges and traces of storage. 570pp. A major study from the 16th century onwards in which ninety-five leading scholars from twenty-seven different countries consider a wide variety of issues including regional migration patterns.
New English Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 102 p. First printing Constantinople 1875. Account of a famine which devastated Central Anatolia in the 1870's. The famine in Asia-Minor: Its history. Compiled from the pages of the Levant Herald.
Very Good English Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 102 p. First printing Constantinople 1875. Account of a famine which devastated Central Anatolia in the 1870's. The famine in Asia-Minor: Its history. Compiled from the pages of the Levant Herald.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates, numerous illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Signed and inscribed "For Robert Conquest, with admiration" atop title page, apparently by Luciuk, at Kingston, Ontario in 2008. Conquest [1917-1915] was a renowned author and sovietologist once described by a close adviser to Margaret Thatcher as Britain's greatest living historian. His landmark 1986 treatise 'The Harvest of Sorrow' documented the Ukraine's great terror-famine of 1932-1933. 493 pages. Footnotes, bibliography and index. Fold-out colour map. "The documents reveal that even at the height of the famine the Soviet authorities denied that there was starvation, rejected foreign aid, and exported food, and that senior British officials refused to alert the public and discouraged private relief. This collection thus furnishes evidence about the causes, course and consequences of one of the great politically engineered famines of the twentieth century." - back cover. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound and special association copy of this important historical record. Book
510p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
570 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. "The classic work on Stalinism - now available in a major revision using new evidence from glasnost." - dust jacket. "A masterpiece of historical detection, likely to remain the definitive work." - The Economist. A considerably updated version of the 1968 first edition. "Includes hitherto secret information on the three great 'Moscow Trials,' on the methods of obtaining confessions, on the purge of writers and other members of the intelligentsia, on life in the labor camps, and many other key matters." - dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal signs of use. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy. Book
Signed by Robert Conquest [1917-2015] upon title page. Also signed and inscribed by Bob [Robert Conquest] to Joe [Joseph D. Dwyer, 1942-2017] upon front free endpaper in the year of publication. Dwyer was an invaluable resource to Conquest at the Hoover Institution and succeeded him as curator of its Russian collection in 2002. 412 pages with black and white plates, extensive footnotes, select bibliography and index. "A meticulous and moving account of a momentous, tragic yet neglected chapter of modern history [now known as the Holodomor]. Presents for the first time the full story of Stalin's collectivization program and its consequences. Reconstructs the background of the events and carefully details the fate of villages and individuals, the desperate condition of children left homeless, and the various cruelties and agonies of the man-made famine that followed. Seeks a true accounting of the death toll and shows how the West has long been deceived about what really happened." - dust jacket. "Conquest's excellently and professionally written book investigates the most serious crime of Leninist-Stalinist communism: its war against the peasantry of the U.S.S.R., which, before its destruction, constituted 82 percent of the entire population." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Unmarked with light overall wear. Tight and square. Dust jacket preserved in mylar. This stark testament of one of the greatest crimes in human history is a must for the shelf of any serious sovietologist. Book
Pages 341-384. Features: nice ad for the Sporting and Dramatic News inside front cover; Cover photo of Canada's loftiest peak, the unconquered summit of Mount Waddington, plu two pages of text and photos showing a climbing party on the treacherous mountain; Photo of bizarre sea creature washed up at Querqueville, near Cherbourg - probably the remains of a basking shark; Two pages of detailed illustrations explaining drought and its dangers in rural England, plus schemes for alleviating water famine; Photo-illustrated book review of "Secrets of the Red Sea", by Henry de Manfreid; Photos and text describe jewelry of a Byzantine-Nubian Queen - more treasures from a mysterious Egyptian cemetery; Photo-illustrated article on an expedition to Cocos Island in search of long-buried pirate treasure with gold and silver indicating instruments; 12 photos illustrate life in the Saar, a district to choose by plebiscite government by Germany, France or the League; Two full-page photos of vast flocks of ducks at the unique Open Lake Sanctuary in Arkansas, plus photos of Mr. George S. Wilcox who protects the ducks; Photos of personalities of the week include the commission of government inaugurated in Newfoundland, Sir James Jeans, Sir H. G. Lyons, Madame Stavisky, the archduke Otto and ex-Empress Zita; the Queen of Siam and H. W. Austin in the Monte Carlo lawn tennis handicap; Acquitted Reichstag fire trial prisoners released and welcomed in Moscow include Mr. Popoff, Dimitroff and Taneff, Norman O'Neill, John Dillinger, Prof. S. F. Oldenburg, and Princess Irina Youssoupoff, who was awarded damages in the "Rasputin" film libel action; Centrefold photos of Prince George's 4000 mile tour in South Africa; Photo of the outdoor construction of Imperial Airways liner "Scylla" (too large for a hangar); Photo of stowaways John Pitzer and Arthur Martin afloat in the Gulf of Mexico; Photo of huge crowd in Trafalgar Square gathered to hear speeches about the unemployment bill; Photos of low British reservoirs; Photo of zeppelin "LZ 129" under construction; Photos of destroyed buildings in Kalgoorlie, Australia after anti-foreigner riots; Article and three photos describe sinking of the "Cheliuskin" near Wrangell Island; Photos of archaic Chinese jade in perfection - finds in the Lo-Yang tombs; Two pages of text and photos describe discoveries which "surpass anything yet known of archaic Chinese jade"; One-page ad for the new Ford Fourteen car; Half-page ad for the Crossley two-litre car; Half-page ad for the Armstrong Siddeley Twenty car; Half-page Rover car ad; Nice half-page Bentley car ad; Back cover ad for Douglas Stuart; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 209-308. Features: Frontispiece photo of George F. McCorquodale; Natural and artificial methods of salmon production - a short review of Canadian results; Salmon Fisheries of Norway; Defective Bones in Hand-reared Trout; The Grayling - part IV - bait fishing; Rod Joints and Whippings - how to recondition them for difficult climates; The Value of Hatchery Trout for Stocking Rivers; De Profundis - a tale of a fisherman's Dilemma; Experiments on the Starvation of Trout Fry; Artificial Propagation of Brown Trout - Hatchery Mortality; Reviews of new books; The Jolly Angler (continued); and more. Average wear. Few institutional library markings. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Why I am Running for Congress - James A. Michener; What next for France? - de Gaulle, at 71, is a fragile bulwark between right-wing terrorists and a heavily Communist electorate is ; We live in Death Valley - Jean Bullard, wife of a park naturalist, tells what it is like to rear a family in the desert; The Spell of the Distant Drum - by Margaret Lawrence; People on the Way Up - Beverly Willis, David Vetter, Marie Bishop, John (Boog) Powell of the Baltimore Orioles; America's miraculous harvest - Orville L. Freeman tells of the advances which allow our farmers to produce more than we cna use, while the Communist nations fight off famine; The Neutron Bomb - William Laurence says it is simply a disturbing nightmare, both improbable and impracticable; Backstage with Andy Williams; Quarterback for the Moon Race - Harrison Storms, the uncanny boss of Project Apollo. Somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Pigskin Preview '61 - an expert's pick of the Nation's Top Teams and Players; Berlin on a Tightrope - a Post editor reports from the city on which the eyes of the world are focused; The Tragedy of Tibet - in 2 and a half years of brutal domination, the Red Chinese have reduced this once-proud nation to slavery and famine - a shocking report based on eyewitness accounts; Brunette Today, Blonde Tomorrow - tints promise to become as widely used as lipstick; These Children Love to Read - Mae Carden teaches reading using the maligned phonetic system; Adventures of the Mind - The Joy of Life, by Alexander Eliot; Atomic War on Insects - by using radiation to sterilize males, scientists are tricking the deadly screwworm fly into breeding itself out of existence - Drs. Edward Knipling and Raymond Bushland. Somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
108 pages. Bibliography. Intended to "Disseminate and synthesize some critical, but very scattered existing knowledge concerning the human costs of J.V. Stalin's once-acclaimed achievements." - from page one. Contents clean and bright. Light external wear. A quality copy. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: A Baptism of Fire - A young British Columbia Forest Service Ranger helps to save 100 people trapped in a logging camp from forest fire; Through Arctic Seas - Part II - Wonderful photos accompany this continuation of the cruise of the Hudson Bay Company steamer Baychimo to the Western Arctic to study the Eskimos and wild life; "Kruger's Millions" - ;A diagram is found which may lead to an enormous quantity of gold hidden by President Kruger after the Boer War; How We Fought the Famine - In East Africa Captain Anthony Parsons needed meat to trade to the Angonis for flour for his "boys"; Through Spain in Disguise - Part VI - Count and Countess Malmignati sing and dance their way across Spain disguised as Arab beggars; Photo of river gardens in Siam; The Adventures of a "Sand-Hog" - Photos of brutal subterranean conditions accompany this story of the men who dig tunnels and tubes beneath the Hudson River, between New York and Jersey City; The Thief Who Lost His "Luck" - A Chinese burglar lucks out; "Crawling Cavern" - Close call for Mark Howard in the spring of 1907 while on outpost duty on the coast of Mindanao; Across Central Africa from East to West - Part I - Major Frederick G. Jackson describes his 6,000 mile trans-African trek - with nice photos; The "Phantom Bandits" - In 1923 Joe Tanko and Floyd Hall escaped from San Quentin Prison and terrorized the countryside before they were finally subdued - includes facsimile of their wanted poster; The Mystery Man of Arnhem's Land - a man goes wrong so flees to the wilds, intent on earning enough to make restitution, but ends up in a lonely grave on the Australian coast; The Hakim - A doctor in Kenya includes fortune-telling in his treatment of disease. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nostalgic ads. Bits of peripheral nibbling, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
93 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Pages 418-520 plus several pages of vintage ads. Features: The Madness of Don Patricio; My Experiences in the Great Russian Famine - graphic glimpses of the terrible Russian famine of 1907 - article with photos; An Ill-Starred Invention - a patent application goes wrong; Mussel-Farming - a curious Dutch industry (article with photos); Adrift in a Runaway Airship - daring young Chicago balloonist William Matteray and his airship are blown by a gale all the way to Michigan; Sights and Scenes in Java - photo-illustrated article by a former resident; The Queen's Temper - part 1 - a remarkable narrative shows how the actions of obscure individuals culminated in the arrival of British troops and the downfall of Burma as an independent state; The Broken Arrow - a marine detective story by A.A. Jeffries; The Autobiography of a Brigand - Part I - Giuseppe Salomone of Barrafranca, Sicily; In the Land of Perfume - the ancient flowery town of Grasse; The Quest of the "O'Baki" - a Japanese ghost story; Lifting a City - after being destroyed by a tidal wave in 1900 the city of Galveston, Texas is raised several feet to prevent future such disasters; and more. Front cover loose but present. Back cover missing. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Gift inscription to titlepage from editor (Peter Garnsey). Light knock to base of spine. Corners have light creasing. Mild shelfwear. ; A theme of the volume is that a combination of natural and artificial shortages made inevitable the bulk movement of staples between regions in all periods of antiquity. Novel contributions are offered in addition in relation to the cost of shipping, the extent of long-distance trade in wine, the relative demand for wheat and barley, the incidence and gravity of food crises, the efficiency of famine-relief measures and the part played by food shortages in the collapse of the late Roman frontier system. ; Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Vol 8; 126 pages; Signed by Editor
