An American Exodus A Record of Human Erosion
by Lange, Dorothea and Paul S. Taylor
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Clean, tight book with gilt on boards intact and no noteworthy flaws. Price-clipped dustjacket shows edgewear with loss at front
- Seller
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Austin, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Clean, tight book with gilt on boards intact and no noteworthy flaws. Price-clipped dustjacket shows edgewear with loss at front corners and spine tips. White rear panel soiled, spine sunned. Despite the flaws described, a better-than average copy Reynal Hitchcock New York 1939 1st Edition Hardback Cloth, large 8vo. 158 pp. Blue linen, gilt spine and front board. Endpapers have printed passages from the book. Pictorial dustjacket. Four years of photographs showing the migration westward of Americans forced off their land by drought, depression, and mechanization. Roth 102.
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Details
- Bookseller
- 12th Street Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS 53194 I
- Title
- An American Exodus A Record of Human Erosion
- Author
- Lange, Dorothea and Paul S. Taylor
- Book Condition
- Used - Clean, tight book with gilt on boards intact and no noteworthy flaws. Price-clipped dustjacket shows edgewear with loss at front
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Reynal Hitchcock
- Date Published
- 1939
Terms of Sale
12th Street Books, ABAA
All books subject to prior sale. Returns accepted within 7 days of receipt with prior notification.
About the Seller
12th Street Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2007
Austin, Texas
About 12th Street Books, ABAA
12th Street Books is an open bookshop in downtown Austin selling used, rare, and out-of-print books on scholarly subjects.
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- Soiled
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- Sunned
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- New
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.