Cash and Violence in Laos [Author's Edition, Inscribed to Leo Huberman]

  • SIGNED
  • [Peking: by the Author, 1961]
By STRONG, Anna Louise
[Peking: by the Author, 1961]. First Edition. One of fifty copies in the "Author's Edition." Inscribed on front endpaper: "for Leo Huberman / Monthly Review, 333 Sixth Ave New York... this copy no 31 of Special Author's Edition of 50 copies is sent with regards," signed by Strong with her Peking address, dated November 1961. 12mo. Cloth spine ver pictorial paper-covered boards; 174pp; map. Photographic illustrations by the author. Mild external soil and wear; text over-opened at contents page; still a tight, Very Good or better copy.

On the corporate imperialist origins of the conflict in Indochina. This copy inscribed to the American socialist economist, labor activist and journalist Leo Huberman (1903-1968), whose own controversial report on the Cuban Revolution would be published the same year (Cuba: Anatomy of A Revolution; 1960). A compelling association copy of an uncommon title by the dean of American postwar journalists in the Far East.

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