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Riding the Storm 1956-1959
by Harold Macmillan
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0333103106
- ISBN 13
- 9780333103104
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London, UK: Macmillan , 1971 Macmillan, London, UK. 1971. Hardcover. Stated First Published in 1971 by Macmillan. Book is tight, square, but does have underlining and marginal notes from pages 94-180 by noted Eisenhower scholar Dr. David Nichols/from his personal library. Book Condition: Very Good; bumped tips; light wear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Good; Price Clipped; edge bumping and small tears to edges and flap folds; large taping at head. Red cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Accomplishments as endpapers on gold paper. Internal hinges are sound and not split. 786 pp 8vo. This fourth volume in Harold Macmillan's memoirs covers the period 1956-1959. This period covers his challenges with the economy, the Suez operation, American foreign policy, the failures in Anglo-American relations, nuclear defense, Lebanon, Matsu and Quemoy, and the visit to Russia to meet with Khrushchev. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013577
- Title
- Riding the Storm 1956-1959
- Author
- Harold Macmillan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0333103106
- ISBN 13
- 9780333103104
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1971
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister, economy, the Suez operation, American foreign policy, the failures in Anglo-American relations, nuclear defense, Lebanon, Matsu and Quemoy, and the visit to Russia to meet with Khrushchev, Eisenhower, inflation, s
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Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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