La Place de la Concorde Suisse
by McPhee, John
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374182418
- ISBN 13
- 9780374182410
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984. First edition, first printing. Signed. Fine / Near Fine. The book is clean, unmarked, square, with tight binding and sharp corners. Signed by the author (no inscriptions) on the title page. The price-clipped dustjacket is bright, protected in mylar and shows no chips or tears. A journalistic study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society. Of course, as anyone who has read McPhee knows, it is much more than that. "McPhee, in showing us as many aspects of the Swiss Army as their famous knife has blades, has produced one of his best books." - The Wall Street Journal. Carefully packaged and shipped in a cardboard box.
Synopsis
La Place de la Concorde Suisse is John McPhee's rich, journalistic study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society. The Swiss Army is so quietly efficient at the art of war that the Israelis carefully patterned their own military on the Swiss model.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Linden Avenue Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10041
- Title
- La Place de la Concorde Suisse
- Author
- McPhee, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0374182418
- ISBN 13
- 9780374182410
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
- Pages
- 150
- Size
- 6.18 x 0.86 x 8.6 inches
- Keywords
- First edition, signed, non-fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Non Fiction; Autographs and signed books;
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