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The American Revolution: A People's History
by Raphael, Ray
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/F/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 1861973225
- ISBN 13
- 9781861973221
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date: 2001.* Pub: Profile Books Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth covered boards with small, gilt title to spine. No bumps, rubs, or other visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper, showing a montage of images. Not price clipped showing a shelf price of £20.00 to rear cover.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (crimson). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Some considerable spotting to top edge. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 315 pp. text. lxxii pp. notes, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: Telling the history of the American Revolution from the often-overlooked standpoint of its everyday participants, this is an involving narrative of the wartime experience designed to convey the best of modern scholarship to a general reading audience. A broad array of diaries and other first person accounts are woven into the narrative. The focus moves on from leaders like Washington and Jefferson to the slaves they owned, the Indians they displaced, the men and boys who did the fighting and the women who endured it.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st/1st fnl, with minor faults reducing it to VG++.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9133
- Title
- The American Revolution: A People's History
- Author
- Raphael, Ray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/F/VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edn. 1st Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 1861973225
- ISBN 13
- 9781861973221
- Publisher
- Profile Books
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 387
- Date Published
- 2001-07-04
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