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Acheson The Secretary of State Who Created the American World
by Chace, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Fine/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0684808439
- ISBN 13
- 9780684808437
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 511pp., Selected Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs. No name, no book-plate, no remainder marks, etc. A clean, crisp copy with original $30.00 publisher's price still on dust-jacket. The first complete biography of one of the original "wise men" you saw their vision of a post- World War II world turn into reality through such efforts as the Marshall Plan, containment of communist expansion, and the creation of NATO. A very fine copy in a very fine dust-jacket.. Third Printing. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004738
- Title
- Acheson The Secretary of State Who Created the American World
- Author
- Chace, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Edition
- Third Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0684808439
- ISBN 13
- 9780684808437
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Biography, American History, Non-Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography and Biography;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Great Expectations Rare Books
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
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