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Boston : Boston Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Co., 1950 Hard cover, 8vo in blue cloth with titles in gold blocked to top board and on spine, blue endpapers, frontispiece portrait, rubricated title page, illustrations, 253pp., First Edition. This history of the BMMFIC was written by Dane Yorke, who, coincidentally, in 1942 was employed as a city librarian at the Boston's MacArthur Library, and is recorded as participating in a city-twinning broadcast on short wave radio WRUL between Biddeford, Maine and Bideford, Devon, Great Britain, as seen in a press cutting from the MacArthur Library. These broadcasts were considered an important source of morale for the populace of both countries during WW II. (See MacArthurArchivesdotorg). **The present work by this author, however, is a significant and very readable history of Boston industry, and the development of the civic infrastructure that supported it. Topics such as the first public water system in the United States are addressed, as a necessary… Read More

Seoul: Korea Institute for National Unification, 2012 Trade paperback, 8vo., 255pp. Condition: Near Fine. ** A study by the Korea Institute for National Unification on the political and economic situation on the Korean peninsula, as regards a potential re-unification. OCLC 858966114.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.