Text Mayone Stycos (2 results)

Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine cloth-bound hardback in a Near Fine dust jacket with a couple of short closed tears and small chips along the top. Canadian price stamped to half-title page. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. 192 pages; b&w photographic plates through out; 8 x 9.5 inches. Out of Print. Story of the battle against hunger, illiteracy, and human degradation. A collaboration between demographer-sociologist Mayone Stycos and photographer Cornell Capa, this book is a study of Honduras and El Salvador that reflects in microcosm the problems and possibilities existing throughout the underdeveloped world.

Softcover. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Square octavo; 187 pages; VG; spine white with black text; some shelfwear to dust jackets, including a black ink mark to the rear cover and a light liquid stain to the front cover; textblock clean; inscribed by Capa on half-title reading "To Louise & Arnie, The value of an honest piece of work done is its validity in the future. Unhappily that future is now. Fondly, Cornell" dated April 6, 1981; black and white photographs throughout; shelved Front Table. Published simultaneously with the first hardback edition. "Louise and Arnie" are Louise and Arnold Sagalyn, an American journalist. 1362024. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.