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Peace is a Three-Edged Sword
by Lloyd Mallan
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964 Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 1964. Hardcover. Stated 2nd Edition/2nd Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light bumping to upper tips, head, and tail. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($4.95); moisture stain to tail and lower 1-2 inches of front and rear panels; light soiling to DJ; chipping and light wear to head tail, and tips. White boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine and sword on front board. 253 pp 8vo. If you ever wondered who had control of the SAC bombers in the Cold War, this book will reassure you that cool heads were on top of every action. In this authoritative, behind the scenes report, graphically shows how numerous airtight checks and counter-checks, electronic as well a human, make it all but impossible for a full-scale war to be started by accident, madness, or hysteria. This book is the antidote to the 'nuclear jitters'. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010990
- Title
- Peace is a Three-Edged Sword
- Author
- Lloyd Mallan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Publisher
- Prentice-Hall
- Place of Publication
- Englewood Cliffs, NJ
- Date Published
- 1964
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- SAC, Strategic Air Command, SC Bombers, B-52 bombers, Cold War, Nuclear war, ICBMs, Minuteman, Atlas, Titan, Red Alert, Russian attack, Nuclear jitters, bomb shelters, deterrent, safeguards, manned bombers, missiles, space craft, U.S. Strike Command, Stra
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cold War; Americana;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
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