first edition
1969 · New York
by Dean Acheson
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1969. Very Good -/Very Good -. New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1969. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Octavo (24cm);[xviii], 798 pp. Black and white photographs. Publisher's beige dust jacket; boards in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Price-clipped dust jacket shows a few shallow chips along edges, a 3" vertical tear along center of front flap fold, a few waterspots to front panel and at head of spine, and toning to verso. Boards lightly shelfworn with bumping at spine ends. A few light waterspots and toning to edges of textblock. Prior ownership mark in pen at top of front free endpaper, else interior unmarked. Binding is sound. (Inventory #: 31470)