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Why England Slept

Why England Slept

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Why England Slept

by Kennedy, John F

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  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
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New York: Wilfred Funk, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing in dust jacket with publisher's price of $2.00 intact. 252 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth. Very Good, with patches of paper adhered to rear cover pulled from blank verso of the dust jacket. End sheets offset from binder's glue, small vintage bookseller's ticker to front free end paper. In a Very Good dust jacket with rubbing at the folds, soiling, chipping at the corners and spine ends, darkening to spine panel, and light staining which is mostly visible from the blank verso.

Originally written as a thesis while JFK was still at Harvard, the book was conceived as a follow-up to Winston Churchill's While England Slept.

Synopsis

Why England Slept is the published version of a thesis written by John F. Kennedy while in his senior year at Harvard College. Its title was an allusion to Winston Churchill's 1938 book While England Slept, which also examined the buildup of German power.

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Bookseller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
180715012
Title
Why England Slept
Author
Kennedy, John F
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First edition
Publisher
Wilfred Funk
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1940

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About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

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Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Offset
A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
Chipping
A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Publisher's cloth
A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
Verso
The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
Rubbing
Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
First Edition
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