Author: WOODHAM-SMITH, CECIL
Title: The Great Hunger
Description: Harper and Row. 1962, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth, gilt titles. Likely second printing, with $6.95 price on flap and 0263 code beneath. The story of the great potato famine of the 1840s that killed a million Irish peasants and caused a flood of immigrants to the US and elsewhere. With a photoplate section on coated paper and a fold-out map of Ireland in 1848. Extensive references/chapter notes. Book very good plus with owner address stickers to pastedowns, notation of 'Christmas 1963' on ffep. DJ likewise very good with a couple of small surface abrasions, minor wear to spine-ends, folds. 510 pp. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Britain & Ireland


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