Ambassador's Report
by BOWLES, Chester
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. Stated First Edition, copyright page. Lacks the dust jacket. With a section of b&w photo plates and maps of south Asia at endpapers and frontis. In full dark blue cloth-covered boards. Beginnings of cracks at mid-volume and near the front. Prev. owner's signat. at half title page. --- The author was the 3rd US ambassador to India and this volume, his memoir, recounts his time in that role. He was re-appointed to the same post in the early 1960s. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 415 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74607
- Title
- Ambassador's Report
- Author
- BOWLES, Chester
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir; >>History;
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