OUR UNDEVELOPED WORLD by Stamp, L. Dudley

Faber and Faber Ltd., 1953. Hardcover. Good. 1953. First Edition. 186 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Minor dog-eared corners. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Minor pen marginalia to pages. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Book is slightly forward leaning. Scuffing and light red marking overall.

Faber & Faber, London, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: maps and graphs. the dustjacket has browned on the spine and on the top of the front panel. Slightly rubbed at the head and tail of the spine and each of the corners. Offset tanning of the end pages, otherwise clean and without annotation. The book is based on a series of 6 lectures delivered by the author where he shows conclusively that the most important underdeveloped lands are not in the tropics and uninhabited latitude as we might expect, rather hopeful and development lies in the middle Latitude is in the United States, the soviet union, Canada, Australia and the Argentine. To meet the worldwide menace of hunger, the author advocates the removal of man-made barriers and more efficient utilisation of our present lands. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 192 pages, including index. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: maps and graphs.… Read More

United Kingdom: Faber and Faber. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1953. Hardcover. A Very Good hardcover in a Good unclipped dustjacket. The book is in clean green cloth-covered boards, bumped to the spine ends/corners, no writing or stamps, unmarked toned pages a little tanned to the text-block edges. The clean dustjacket is creased to the edges, with a small closed tear and chip to flap corner - supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our bookshop in Scotland. .