Cannibals and Missionaries
By
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989)

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
New York
1979

xiii, [1], 369 p.; 21.5 cm. (8.5 inches). Green cloth spine, with gilt-stamped spine title, light brown paper over boards. Glossy, color illustrated dust jacket, featuring a painting on both sections and spine by Philips Koninck, "Dunes and River," 1664, in the Boymansvan Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, photograph by Dick Wolters. Light brown endpapers.

First Edition

"A committee of liberals is flying to Iran to investigate torture and illegality under the Shah. The time is early 1975. Also abroad the jet, traveling in first class, is a group of art collectors on their way to visit Iran's museums and archaelogical sites. The plane is hijacked. Liberals and collectors become hostages"[from the dust jacket]

ISBN: 0151153876


Book is in Fine/As New Condition: pages bright, clean, tight, and unmarked
Dust Jacket is in Very Good Condition: illustration intact; light wear both ends of the spine; small crease top edge of the back section. Front flap creased.


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