Closing Pandora's Box: Arms Races, Arms Control, and the History of the Cold War
by GLYNN, Patrick
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0465098096
- ISBN 13
- 9780465098095
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
N.p.: BasicBooks, 1992. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine with gilt lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 445pp. Fine/fine. Superb first edition, handsomely inscribed and signed large and bold by Glynn in black ink on front flyleaf: "6-20-92 / To Bob, / Whose Bradley / Fighting Vehicles saved / lives and helped / achieve our most remnarkable / military victory. / Best wishes, / Pat." Robert Malott (1926-2018) was a noted Chicago business leader, CEO of FMC Corporation, Republican politico and philanthropist. As head of the military equipment maker and chemical corporation FMC Malott was instrumental in placing large numbers of this tank in the hands of American allies. A choice presentation copy.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45646
- Title
- Closing Pandora's Box: Arms Races, Arms Control, and the History of the Cold War
- Author
- GLYNN, Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0465098096
- ISBN 13
- 9780465098095
- Publisher
- BasicBooks
- Place of Publication
- N.p.
- Date Published
- 1992
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Military History;
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