Broadcasting Australia, Signed (2 results)

Condition: Near Fine. pp 11-62 Booklet containing a series of 5 lectures by the Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University in Canberra, prepared before the death of President J F Kennedy. In near fine condition in photographic wrappers, signed and inscribed to upper cover. From the collection of Kenneth Robinson (1914-2005), a distinguished civil servant who became an expert on colonial government and administration. He was closely involved in international aspects of postwar planning, including former colonies, in south-West Africa (now Namibia), and became the Commonwealth Office expert on French West Africa. He became assistant secretary in the CO in 1946 (and head of the West African department), but resigned in 1948 to become reader in Commonwealth government at Oxford and subsequently director and professor of commonwealth affairs at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong from 1965 to 1972. Near Fine Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.

1st edition hardback in original cloth As New large octavo viii + 599pp., b/w pls., bibliog., index, Number 287 of 400 copies, signed by author. Scarce.