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Race Suicide?
by McCleary, G. F
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: George Allen and Unwin. Good in Good dust jacket. (1945). First Edition. Hardcover. Extensive neat underlining by a later owner. Small tears and chips to margins of dust wrapper. Some foxing, rubbing and fading to dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; This copy inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "To Dr. A. R. Falconer with kindest regards from G. F. McCleary". 126 pages. Blue cloth boards. Page dimensions: 183 x 119mm. "Wilful sterility is, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement." - from dust wrapper blurb. Selected chapter titles: What has brought down the birth rate?; The Rationalisation of Life; The Peopling of America; The Fit and the Unfit; National Quests for More Babies.; 12mo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13576
- Title
- Race Suicide?
- Author
- McCleary, G. F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- George Allen and Unwin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1945)
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Inscribed
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- Rubbing
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- G
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