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Why England Slept
de Kennedy, John F
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good
- Librería
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
New York: Wilfred Funk, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing in dust jacket with publisher's price of $2.00 intact. 252 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth. Very Good, with patches of paper adhered to rear cover pulled from blank verso of the dust jacket. End sheets offset from binder's glue, small vintage bookseller's ticker to front free end paper. In a Very Good dust jacket with rubbing at the folds, soiling, chipping at the corners and spine ends, darkening to spine panel, and light staining which is mostly visible from the blank verso.
Originally written as a thesis while JFK was still at Harvard, the book was conceived as a follow-up to Winston Churchill's While England Slept.
Sinopsis
Why England Slept is the published version of a thesis written by John F. Kennedy while in his senior year at Harvard College. Its title was an allusion to Winston Churchill's 1938 book While England Slept, which also examined the buildup of German power.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 180715012
- Título
- Why England Slept
- Autor
- Kennedy, John F
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Editorial
- Wilfred Funk
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1940
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2010
Portland, Oregon
Sobre Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
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- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
