What are we to do?
by Strachey, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London: V. Gollancz ltd. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1938. 1st. Hardcover. Dust jacket heavily chipped with tears and creasing, some soil to DJ, spine discolored. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. ; A tight solid book, hinges intact. Yellow Gollancz dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector with price on spine. ; 9.45 X 6.22 X 1.42 inches; 398 pages; In 1938, Great Britain finds itself in an odd position, the Great Depression is waning, the Spanish Civil War is on-going with socialists and communists fighting the right wing Franco followers in a precursor of WWII, Hitler is preparing to unleash his horrors upon Europe. Strachey takes a long and thoughtful look at position that the British Labour/Socialist movement is in and what it should do to grow. In retrospect it seems that through all the tumult of WWII, even with the great respect that the people of Great Britain for the leadership of Winston Churchill, in the first election after the war, the Labour Party won. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16946
- Title
- What are we to do?
- Author
- Strachey, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- V. Gollancz ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- Labor, labour, Great Britain, Socialism
Terms of Sale
Ainsworth Books
Satisfaction guaranteed - if I have made an error in the description, I will refund book and shipping both ways. If the customer just changes his/her mind I will only refund one shipping charge. Please contact me before sending a book back. Any dust jackets on books will have a Mylar protector. Books shipped from US or Canada.
About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
Biblio member since 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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- Jacket
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- Bookplate
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- Tight
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- Spine
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.