United World: The Road to International Peace
by NEARING, Scott
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Mays Landing, NJ: Open Road Press, Inc, 1944. First Edition. Octavo (21.25cm); royal blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; xii,265,[3]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, topstain dulled, with some minor bubbling to cloth at covers; contents clean; Very Good+ or better. Dustjacket gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny tape-mended tears on verso, a tiny nick to rear flap fold, and a faint dampstain along the spine panel and front panel edges; Very Good. "UNITED WORLD deals with the most vital and the most controversial issue of the day: world organization. The book is neither dogmatic nor partisan. It presents the question of a world community in the light of history and of contemporary experience and charts the next steps in the direction of a world government" (from rear panel).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47780
- Title
- United World: The Road to International Peace
- Author
- NEARING, Scott
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Open Road Press, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Mays Landing, NJ
- Date Published
- 1944
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
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