The Time Stream : A Voyager Takes a Reckoning
by Heermance, Edgar Laing
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Burlington, Vermont: Free Press Association, 1942. First edition [1942]. An optimistic book written during World War II but describing the possibilities of the peace, self-described as an answer to Hitler's Mein Kampf. Describes a human time stream leading through war and peace, addressing such issues as attitudes toward nature, morals, controlling life conditions, the fittest to survive, mutual aid, national interests, public emotion, cosmic citizenship and the conquest of fear. Inscribed to a particular couple and signed by both the author and Nora Livingston Heermance, both on the front free endpaper. Turquoise blue cloth with paper spine label, 205 pages, printed dustjacket. The book has just a bit of light rubbing to the corners and spine ends, good hinges, sound text block, very clean pages free from other names or markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and has some wear including some light chipping, a sunned spine, some light soil.. Inscribed by The Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006532
- Title
- The Time Stream : A Voyager Takes a Reckoning
- Author
- Heermance, Edgar Laing
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Free Press Association
- Place of Publication
- Burlington, Vermont
- Date Published
- 1942
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- PEACE WORLD WAR II POLITICS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy, Theology, Religion, Spirituality;
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East Granby, Connecticut
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- Inscribed
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- First Edition
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- Sunned
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- Spine Label
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- Rubbing
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- Cloth
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- 12mo
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- Chipping
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- Text Block
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