Willingdon H E (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. First Edition. Buff papered boards with black lettering on spine and front cover. Bit of browning to endpapers; some minor soiling; rusted paperclip residue on a few pages, else interior is clean. 12 illustrations on plates (photographs and two fold-out maps). Bibliographies following each chapter. Dust jacket shows moderate edgewear and some splitting along flap-folds; spine scuffed; in an archival mylar sleeve. pp. xvii, 208. Inscribed by Hatch to his mother-in-law Harriet McLean Gilchriest, ''To Mother Gilchriest / who has helped me so much in so many ways / Duane Spencer Hatch''. A report on Indian village poverty and social work, and partly a presentation of a theory of how such work can be done effectively on a wider scale. Duane Spencer Hatch (1888-1963) was an agriculturalist, researcher and pioneer in rural reconstruction and community development. He had been connected with India since 1916. Up from Poverty is based upon the author's personal study, experimentation and practice, and on those of his Indian colleagues and fellow rural workers. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. 8vo. In the original publisher's red silk covered binding, gilt vignette to upper cover, gilt lettering to spine. Patterned endpapers. A very good copy, the covers bright, spine a little faded, hinges tender. A locally printed anthology of writings on Bombay (now Mumbai). Including the seventeenth century accounts of Streynsham, Fryer and Ovington, but predominantly featuring nineteenth century visitors, residents and luminaries. It also includes the accounts of a number of female travellers and residents, including Anna Brassey, Elizabeth Grant and Flora Steel. Uncommon, with just three copies in UK libraries (BL, Cambridge, Manchester).