ON THE PREVENTION OF WAR by Strachey, John - 1963

St. Martin, 1963. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1962. First Edition. 334 pages. Purple dust jacket over blue cloth. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

St. Martin's Press, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good ; Good Jacket. 1963 St. Martin's Press. First US Edition, stated. No additional printings listed. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has yellow paper-covered boards with black textured paper-covered spine and gold and blue spine lettering. Yellow endpapers. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends lightly bumped. Pages clean and unmarked. 334 pages. Dust jacket has overall surface rubbing, chipped and nicked edges, small to 1 inch tears, and creases. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

New York: St Martins Pr, 1962. The jacket has the price clipped, and some surface wear over the top and bottom corner edges. . First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Macmillan, 1962-12. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. First Edition with dust jacket ex libris with usual markings - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post

St. Martin's Press, 1963. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket.

Macmillan & Co. Ltd, London, 1962. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. author's note, preface by author and index. Illustrated card cover with white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of author to the rear book cover. "This is the most controversial book which John Strachey has written. He asks, and strives to answer, the great question of our times. Can we survive in the nuclear age? Or has the bomb doomed the human race to extinction? He is convinced that the discovery of nuclear energy has faced us with this alternative; either we end war or war will end us." -- from the rear panel blurb. Creasing to the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and book panels. Reading creases and sunning to the backstrip. Age toning of the textblock edges and panels. Previous owners ex libris plate to the top right-hand corner of the free front end paper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 334… Read More

New York: St. Martins Press, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Near fine in an about near fine dustwrapper. Book is a nice copy, almost new, foredges lightly soiled. Dustwrapper rubbed at spine ends and corners, lightly worn and soiled. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Macmillan & Co., 1962. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (Good), dustwrapper (extrems worn; label on spine - in protective wrapper). Pp. ix + 334 (ex school library with bookplate on front paste-down and usual stamps and markings).