The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
- SIGNED
- New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972. First edition. First edition. Signed by Alfred W. McCoy on the half title, inscribed to military historian Shelby Stanton, Sept. 11 1985. Stanton's bookplates on front free endpaper; his stamp on half title as well. xii, [ii], 464 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt and white lettering. Very Good with tape stains to boards, slightly bumped corners, in a dust jacket with strip of offsetting from a jacket protector, otherwise in nice shape.
The American historian's best-known work, a parapolitical expose of CIA participation in drug trafficking in southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, and a chronicle of the global shift of opium production from Turkey to the Golden Triangle. Quite uncommon signed.
Details
Title
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
Author
McCoy, Alfred W.; Cathleen B. Read; Leonard P. Adams II
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
Harper & Row, Publishers: New York
Date
1972
Edition
First edition