My book  is being printed on icc profile US web coated swop v2 paper.  Is it better to work on my images in this profile than sRGB.

is it better to work on an image in the icc profile than in sRGB

It depends. If you know positively that's the profile that will be used, you can do that (a lot of people use it just because it happens to be the Photoshop default).
Pro: you'll be working within Web Coated SWOP's limited gamut from the start, so you won't be disappointed when some colors are clipped in the final conversion. And they would be, because US Web Coated SWOP v2 is a very small color space. Don't expect deep saturated blues, for instance, because you won't get it.
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