The African Rubber Industry and ... Funtumia Elastica ("Kickxia")

London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis, photos, index, xvi, 252, plus (8) adverts. 22 cm. Hinges cracked. Ex lib. (John Crerar Library Chicago). Library markings include call number in gilt on backstrip, perforated library name on title-page, black library name stamp on title-page and on blank back of every plate. Despite the extensive library markings and splitting along hinge on front endpaper, this copy seems crisp and perhaps uncirculated. A number of African countries had some involvement in rubber. That involvement is described in the first two chapters (pages [1]-38). Firestone's extensive involvement in (truncated) Liberia did not begin until the mid 1920s. (Inventory #: 94905)