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Minamata  Hardcover, ISBN 0701121319
Publisher: Chatto and Windus., 1975
London.: Chatto and Windus.. 1975.. Small text map of Minamata, illustrated throughout with extraordinarily striking black and white photographic plates by Eugene and Aileen Smith. 192pp, dustjacket, quarto. Blank prelims and title lightly foxed, elegant bookplate tipped in front free endpaper. A very good copy. Remarkable photo-essay by well-known photographer Eugene Smith and his wife Aileen recording the devastating mercury poisoning wrought on the people of Minamata who had eaten fish…