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THE AMERICANS Fifty Talks on Our Life and Times
by Alistair Cooke
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394503643
- ISBN 13
- 9780394503646
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0394503643 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages; Light tan cloth with silver block lettering front and spine. Private library label on front end page. Turn page edges are lightly foxed. Spine is straight and binding is tight. The Dust Jacket is price clipped. There is a tiny red spot on front. ~~ Alistair Cooke, KBE (1908-2004) , was a legendary British American journalist, television host, and radio broadcaster. He was born in Lancashire, England, and after graduating from the University of Cambridge, was hired as a journalist for the BBC. He rose to prominence for his London Letter reports, broadcast on NBC Radio in America during the 1930s. Cooke immigrated to the United States in 1937. In 1946, he began a tradition that would last nearly six decades-his Letter from America radio appearances on the BBC. .
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- The Reading Well Bookstore
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1131
- Title
- THE AMERICANS Fifty Talks on Our Life and Times
- Author
- Alistair Cooke
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394503643
- ISBN 13
- 9780394503646
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- 0394503643, Radio, Television, & Film, US History, Politics
- Bookseller catalogs
- Radio, Television, & Film;
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
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