The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-9
Cecil Woodham-Smith [Inscribed with letter]
1962
Hamish Hamilton
First Edition
8vo
Description:
Inscribed by Woodham-Smith to front end paper and includes a letter from the author. A seminal, deeply researched account of the Irish Potato Famine, credited with bringing the true scale and political failures of the catastrophe to public attention, particularity to British attention.
Condition:
Good Condition. Pictorial jacket over green cloth. Pages are clean with some foxing to fore-edge. Tape marks to gutter of front pastedown and end paper. Letter and inscription to front end paper. Map to rear. Binding is firm. Boards clean. Jacket has light nicks and creasing to edges. Minor tanning to spine.
The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-9
Cecil Woodham-Smith [Inscribed with letter]
1962
Hamish Hamilton
First Edition
8vo
Description:
Inscribed by Woodham-Smith to front end paper and includes a letter from the author. A seminal, deeply researched account of the Irish Potato Famine, credited with bringing the true scale and political failures of the catastrophe to public attention, particularity to British attention.
Condition:
Good Condition. Pictorial jacket over green cloth. Pages are clean with some foxing to fore-edge. Tape marks to gutter of front pastedown and end paper. Letter and inscription to front end paper. Map to rear. Binding is firm. Boards clean. Jacket has light nicks and creasing to edges. Minor tanning to spine.
