The Peace Ship: Henry Ford's Pacifist Adventure in the First World War Tapa dura - 1978

MacMillan Publishing Co, Inc, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Heavy Book, may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, slightly marked, torn and edge worn. There is slight foxing around the block of the book. Now protected in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

MacMillan, New York, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". xvi + 367pp. Binding firm. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges browned, foxed and marked. Ex-library, with minimal stamps and markings (Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre). Covers worn. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Military & Warfare; United States; 1900-1920; Ships & the Sea. ISBN: 0025665707. ISBN/EAN: 9780025665705. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 51176. . 9780025665705

Macmillan Publishers Limited. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York: Macmillan, 1978. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with slight rubbing and sunning. 367pp. An account of Henry Ford's attempt to stop World War I in 1915 when he chartered the Oscar II to take himself and 150 delegates to Norway on the first stop of a schedule of peace meetings in Neutral Europe. Illustrated.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (+)/Very Good. 9.5 x 6.5 inches.

Macmillan, 1978. Hardcover. Good.

New York, Macmillan first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Shocked by the outbreak of the First World War, a tenacious group of American idealists, led by the world-famous social reformer Jane Addams, persuaded Henry Ford to sponsor a peace mission to neutral Europe, to mediate peace. This book tells that story. 240 x 162mm., pp. xiv, 367, b/w plates, append., notes, biblio., index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents - previous owner's name stamp (one line) top title page, d.j. light rub. top/bot. spine, small closed tear & crease on back bottom edge. VG+/VG+ ISBN: 0025665707

New York: Macmillan Company, 1978. Book contains 367 pages with a few illustrations. Book very, very clean and binding tight. DJ has a 2" tear on top rear edge and a 1.5" tear along front top edge. Henry Ford and his company of peace pilgrims set sail from NJ in an ill-fated effort to stop World War I and have the boys "out of the trenches by Christmas" 1915.. First Printing. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good++/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1978. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good in good dust jacket.. xiv, [2], 367, [1] p. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. From Wikipedia: "The Peace Ship was the common name for the ocean liner Oscar II, on which American industrialist Henry Ford organized and launched his 1915 amateur peace mission to Europe; Ford chartered the Oscar II and invited prominent peace activists to join him. He hoped to create enough publicity to prompt the belligerent nations to convene a peace conference and mediate an end to World War I, but the mission was widely mocked by the press, which referred to the Oscar II as the Ship of Fools as well as the Peace Ship. Infighting between the activists, mockery by the press contingent aboard, and an outbreak of influenza marred the voyage. Four days after Oscar II arrived in Norway, a beleaguered and physically ill Ford abandoned the mission and returned to the United… Leer más

Macmillan, 1978-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!