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by Dag Hammarskjold
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Lynchburg, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Book is in Near Fine condition, with corners lightly bumped, very beginnings of foxing on pastedowns. Text pages clean and tight.
Dust jacket is in Near Fine condition. Price clipped. A bit of sun tanning on spine and front, and minor edgewear. Now in Brodart dust jacket protector.
Synopsis
Dag Hammarskjold was born in Jonkoping, Sweden, in 1905, and died near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, on September 18, 1961, in an air crash while flying there to negotiate a cease-fire between United Nations and Katanga forces. The son of the Swedish prime minister during World War I, Hammarskjold studied law and economics at the universities of Uppsala and Stockholm. He quickly gained prominence in his own country as secretary and then chairman of the board of governors of the Bank of Sweden; he was undersecretary of the Swedish department of finance from 1936 to 1945. In 1946 he entered the foreign ministry as financial adviser and became chief Swedish delegate to the OEEC in 1948. In 1951 he was the vice chairman of the Swedish delegation to the United Nations, in 1952 he was chairman, and in 1953 he was elected Secretary-General and re-elected in 1957. Widely read in literature and philosophy, Dag Hammarskjold translated the poetry of St.-John Perse into Swedish. He was made a member of the Swedish Academy in 1954. From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Givens Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20178
- Title
- Markings
- Author
- Dag Hammarskjold
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1964
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- religion, god, philosophy, theology, spiritual
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion; Philosophy;
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Brodart
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