THE PREVALENCE OF PEOPLE Book Details + Condition: Charles Scribner's Sons (New York). First edition, 1955. Hardcover with dust jacket, 1955. 278 pages. Illustrated. Inscribed and signed by the author, Marston Bates. From the jacket: "By forestalling death by disease, might not public health projects be creating a new problem, as they solved an old one?" Chapters include: From Mosquitoes to People; The Numbers of Men; The Nature of Man; The Kinds of Man; Means of Subsistence; Human Reproduction; Control of Reproduction; Causes of Death; Famine; Disease; Migration; The Idea of Eugenics; and much more. In very good condition: tight binding and minimal shelf wear; darkened endpapers; small bookseller stamp on inside front paste-down; interior is free of marking save author's inscription and signature. Dust jacket has minor wear with foxing to inside of jacket; it remains unclipped with the original price still present, and is protected with a mylar cover. Please don't hesitate to let me know if you have any questions! Also check out our other rare and out-of-print antiquarian books at Black Cat Caboodle. SHIPPING & PAYMENT Shipping & Handling Fee Listed — covers shipping via USPS to anywhere in the continental U.S.International Shipping — available to anywhere that the UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE delivers. Please message me for a quote!PAYPAL ONLY please! Payment is due within 3 days of end of auction.Black Cat Caboodle THANKS you for looking — Happy eBaying! |