Author: | Smith, W. (William) Eugene (1918-1978) - Smith, Aileen M. |
Title: | Minamata (a warning to the world...). VERY FINE COPY. |
Publisher: | Chatto & Windus, Ltd., London, 1975 |
Description: | Rixine over boards with debossed title to front panel (hardcover), photo-pictorial dustjacket, 30 x 24,5 cms., 192 pp. throughout illustrated in duotone, chronology. |
Note: | First Edition. Apart from a faint trace of number pressured on front wrapper a very fine copy, rare in this condition. *Minamata is a town along the coast of Kyushu, Japan. When Chisso Corporation discharged acetaldehyde into the ocean, it poisoned 10,000 of its citizens. This book documents the devestation that Chrisso caused. |
Book No: | 25430 |