La Place de la Concorde Suisse // FIRST EDITION //
by McPhee, John
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- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Near Fine
- Seller
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Redmond, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. STATED FIRST Edition AND Printing - A FLAWLESS volume in a Near Fine Dust Jacket (neatly price clipped with two shallow tiny indentations to paper jacket; two very shallow creases to front panel - does not detract at all). Grey cloth. A very clean, tight and unmarked volume. Mylar protected jacket.
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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- Bookseller
- Margins13 Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004140
- Title
- La Place de la Concorde Suisse // FIRST EDITION //
- Author
- McPhee, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus and Giroux
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Essays; non-fiction; Swiss Army;
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Price Clipped
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- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
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