The McClelland Press, 1938. Signed and inscribed leather bound first edition of The Influence of Hunger on Human History by Ezra Parmalee Prentice.

Contains color and black & white plates.

Ezra Prentice was an American lawyer and politician from New York. In 1903, Prentice was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Republican, representing New York County's 25th District. He was married to Alta Rockefeller, the daughter of John D. Rockefeller.

Mr. Prentice has signed and inscribed the first blank page to Dr. Charles R. Stockard, a professor of anatomy at Cornell Medical College and president of The American Association of Anatomists from 1928-1930. Stockard was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1922 and the American Philosophical Society in 1924.

Fine condition. Excellent copy with a tight, square binding and clean, crisp pages. No dust jacket.