The Passionate War: The Narrative History of the Spanish Civil War- 1936-1939
by Wyden, Peter
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0671253301
- ISBN 13
- 9780671253301
- Seller
-
Toms River, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing First Edition per complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with red boards, red spine lettering and gold gilt spine lettering. End papers show map of Spain titled ""Spain during the Civil War - How the Tide Turned."" Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. light dust dulling / age toning to text block edges; some spotting to top text block, two marker lines on bottom text block. Contains a section of 16 leaves / 32 pages of black & white photos. Dust jacket very good with only ghost of shelf & edge wear; not price clipped. * From the jacket flap, ""The memory is alive in art and literature: Piscasso's 'Guernica,' Hemingway's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Orwell's 'Homage to Catalonia.' But what really happened in Spain from 1936 to 1939? Why did idealistic volunteers from all over the world (including 3,000 Americans) feel compelled to fight history's last passionate war, the holy cause that forced the world to choose sides for decades to come? How did the Spanish Civil War escalate into the dress rehearsal for World War II?""
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M001063
- Title
- The Passionate War: The Narrative History of the Spanish Civil War- 1936-1939
- Author
- Wyden, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0671253301
- ISBN 13
- 9780671253301
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Spain, Spain - History - Civil War, 1936-1939
- Bookseller catalogs
- History of Europe;
Terms of Sale
Elk Creek Heritage Books
Books are offered as described and are subject to prior sale.
Free shipping via USPS Media Mail to locations in the U.S.
All books are packaged securely and shipped via the United States Postal Service within 1 to 2 business days. We provide you with a Tracking Number.
Free shipping via USPS Media Mail to locations in the U.S.
All books are packaged securely and shipped via the United States Postal Service within 1 to 2 business days. We provide you with a Tracking Number.
Rates for USPS Priority Mail and International Shipping will be displayed at checkout.
About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2015
Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- 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....
- 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...