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The Road To Huddersfield: A Journey To Five Continents
by Morris, James
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books/Random House, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. Six Maps. b/w Illustrations. Red full cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine, clean with two small white spots on front, light wear to corners, tight & solid, square volume. Rough cut on fore-edge and lower edge. Former owner name plate and stamp to endpapers. Endpapers illustration in red tones of International Bank documents. Internals very clean, no markings of any kind, no creases. This book is about the history and organization of the World Bank, conceived in the English town of Huddersfield, in1944 to reconstruct the war-shattered nations. Although the World Bank commissioned this work, it is not an advertisement for the Bank. The author was free to travel where he liked and recorded every criticism of the Bank he heard. He was invited to write the book as an engineer might build a bridge and every detail of construction is his own. He travelled and wrote his accounts from Halifax, Yorkshire, to an Ethiopian village, to Pakistan, Sicily, Siam, Columbia, India, and many other places on his journeys. 235 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. 1963, Pantheon Books/Random House, New York
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026463
- Title
- The Road To Huddersfield: A Journey To Five Continents
- Author
- Morris, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books/Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- INTERNATIONAL WORLD BANK; EUGENE BLACK; BERGHIDA YANHEE; ITALY; ATHENS; PUNJAB INDIA; YORKSHIRE; ETHIOPIA; SIAM; COLOMBIA;
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