On Active Service in Peace and War, 2 Volumes. Limited Edition {SIGNED}
Language: English
Published by Harper & Brothers,, New York, 1948
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: The Wild Muse, Granville, NY, U.S.A.The Wild Muse
AbeBooks seller since October 31, 2005
Condition: Used - Fine
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Signed, numbered first edition. Limited to 1,250 numbered copies. Copy number 6. Hard covers in original dust jackets. Published NY: Harper & Brothers, 1948, first printings. 8vo., xxii+320pp. + frontis portrait; vi + 323-698pp. Blue cloth with publisher's paper spine labels. Signed by Stimson on limitation page of volume one. Stimson was Secretary of State and Secretary of War during three Presidential terms (1911 – 1913, 1940 - 1945, 1929 – 1933). McGeorge Bundy was an American academic who was Stimson's Special Assistant during the Second World War and later served as National Security Advisor to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson from 1961 through 1966. Fine in near fine dust jackets with light edge fray and sun darkening along the spine. Volume one has a duplicate, pristine dust jacket inside the outer one. Lacking the slipcase.
Seller Inventory # 011176
Bibliographic details
- Title
- On Active Service in Peace and War, 2 Volumes. Limited Edition {SIGNED}
- Author
- Stimson, Henry L.; and Bundy, McGeorge
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers,, New York
- Publication year
- 1948
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo
- Seller catalogs
- American History & Americana, Signed
The Wild Muse
Granville, NY, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since October 31, 2005
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