The Nature of Development: A Report from the Rural Tropics on the Quest for Sustainable Economic Growth

Octavo, green boards and brown cloth lettered in gilt; unclipped pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing. A presentation copy, inscribed: "For Phil and Helen, dear friends ---- Roger," on the half-title page. The recipients, Philip Jessup, Jr., a mining executive, served as the legal adviser to the National Gallery of Art; Helen Jessup, the noted art historian, founded the Friends of Khmer Culture, an American nonprofit group that supported arts organizations. An important work by the acclaimed conservationist Stone with a distinguished provenance.