A TRACT OF TIME.
by Hempstone, Smith
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
BOSTON: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1966. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. N First edition. Near fine in very good+ or better dust jacket. (Light rubbing to jacket though less than usually encountered with this title. A few short edge tear at spine ends. ) Early Vietnam war novel. (B) .
Synopsis
A Tract of Time is an antiwar novel from 1966 by Smith Hempstone, that covers the time period about 1960, when there was an attempted coup of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. Even as the United States backed Diem's government during the war, its American advisers worked with the Montagnard people who opposed Diem, to help them fight the Viet Cong, whom they also opposed.
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- Bookseller
- Waverley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23815
- Title
- A TRACT OF TIME.
- Author
- Hempstone, Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY.
- Place of Publication
- BOSTON
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Vietnam War Literature/212
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- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...