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Soft cover. Condition: Good+. White soft cover with black lettering and trim on front cover, author last name handwritten on spine, cover shows light rubbing and creasing, lightly soiled and foxed. Page edges lightly stained and foxed. Ex-seminary-library with the usual indications. Binding tight, pages very clean, author inscription to previous owner on inside front cover is the only other marking. 119 pages. Packaged carefully for shipment in cardboard with U. S. tracking. Signed by Author(s).

The doctoral dissertation of the eminent physician, polymath, and UN delegate Davidson Nicol. Inscribed from the author to his Cambridge mentor Frederick Sanger on the front free endpaper, "To Fred Sanger, with many thanks for your help and inspiration over this work, from, Davidson Nicol. Return address: University College of Sierra Leone, Freetown". With a handful of small manuscript corrections and insertions of special characters by Nicol. Nicol was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and became the first African to graduate with First Class Honours from Cambridge and the first African elected Fellow of a Cambridge college. He went on to earn a medical degree from St. Bart's and then returned to Sierra Leone where he worked as a university administrator. Nicol served as Sierra Leone's chief United Nations delegate from 1969 to 1971, was president of the Security Council, and later became the Under Secretary General and head of Unitar, a UN institute that teaches diplomacy, negotiation, and economic and social development to diplomats from developing countries. A prolific author, he wrote both fiction and works on international politics, and in later life was president of the World Federation of United Nations Associates. Tall quarto. 27 tipped-in plates, tables in the text. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Typescript, text on the rectos only. Some dampstain to cloth also affecting portions of contents, particularly the gutter and upper edges of early leaves, some spotting and tanning, browning of adhesive used for plates, a very good copy.