Originally created during the ferment of late World War II as a tool for colonial administrators, the Kenya-based agricultural economist Leverage draws on material from India, Australia, China et al to produce a comprehensive post colonial guide to land tenure throughout the world.

“…each {system of land tenure} is, or should be, simply a means of securing good husbandry, coupled with an acceptable distribution of the joint product of land, labour and capital. To this end, methods of land tenure can and should be changed when methods of raising and distributing the produce of land change…” (The Economic Journal Vol.55 # 220, Dec 1945 at pp 432 et seq)

Hardback, more than four inches by seven tall, is bound in its publisher's original green cloth. Tilting to the back-strip protecting ting the spine is all original gilt.

First edition published by Cambridge at the University Press, 1945. Free from further permanent inscription and markings to the text.

Although interior condition is overall good, because this original letterpress book is old, it does display minor signs of use and age — such as the usual discolouration to old paper — consistent with a printed object of this vintage. All ix preliminary pages + 151 pp main text 9inc index) are complete and otherwise correct.

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