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This House Against This House
by Sheean, Vincent
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Random House, 1946. Hardback First Edition Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket. Clean & tight, solid volume. Blue cloth with black panel on spine, silver titles. The upper spine edge has a yellow mark and the lower spine has a light stain mark. Text clean and unmarked, no tears, lightly toned. Attractive bookplate on paste-down. Vincent Sheean, American journalist and foreign correspondent in Europe in th 1930s examines two major war fronts, Africa and Italy. He is critical on the policies in Italy and provides an analysis and defense of the policies of North Africa and deGauole. He also covered the years before the war and after in France and Germany. EUROPEAN HISTORY. WORLD WAR II. 420 pages. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. 1946, Random House.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003689
- Title
- This House Against This House
- Author
- Sheean, Vincent
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- WORLD WAR II; GERMANY; FRANCE; AFRICA; ITALY; RUSSIA; UNITED STATES; SPANISH CIVILWAR;
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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