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Storm Signals: More Undiplomatic Diaries, 1962-1971
by Ritchie, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0771597827
- ISBN 13
- 9780771597824
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About This Item
Toronto, Macmillan of Canada, 1983, hardcover, x-175 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Signed by the Author without inscription on the title page, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, previous owners name stamp to front endpaper and title page, spot to top of text block near spine, slight spine end bumps. Dustjacket, light edge nicks, fading to spine, in new Brodart sleeve. The Canadian statesman and author of The Siren Years, An Appetite for Life, and Diplomatic passport presents his final book of memoirs covering his final two postings in diplomatic service, as Canadian High Commissioner to London, and as Canadian Ambassador to Washington during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. ISBN 9780771597824
Synopsis
One of Canada’s most distinguished diplomats, Charles Ritchie (1906–1995) had a brilliant career in Canada’s diplomatic corps, serving as Canada’s ambassador to Bonn, West Germany; as Canadian Permanent Representative to the United Nations; as ambassador to the United States during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson; and as High Commissioner to London.
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- Bookseller
- West of Eden Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7913
- Title
- Storm Signals: More Undiplomatic Diaries, 1962-1971
- Author
- Ritchie, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0771597827
- ISBN 13
- 9780771597824
- Publisher
- Macmillan Of Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- This edition first published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Biography; Biography & Autobiography; Canada; Foreign relations; General; International Relations; Political Science; Ritchie, Charles; United States
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