Everyday Life in The Age of Enterprise 1865-1900
by Robert H. Walker
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/Very Good
- Seller
-
Ridgeley, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. price clipped DJ is protected in a plastic cover. Card holder is attached to the back free end paper. Library stamp on the top of the text block.
Library labels on the back of the plastic cover. From the front DJ flap, " 'The Age of Enterprise' marks America's turning point into the industrial world. It was a time when tinkerers were more common than thinkers, when patents were more prevalent than prizes, when periodicals, clubs, secret societies, and fiction flourished...Although the era was sometimes called the Gilded Age, Robert Walker leaves superficiality behind and he cuts into ' the way it really was,' with quick and deft pen."
Library labels on the back of the plastic cover. From the front DJ flap, " 'The Age of Enterprise' marks America's turning point into the industrial world. It was a time when tinkerers were more common than thinkers, when patents were more prevalent than prizes, when periodicals, clubs, secret societies, and fiction flourished...Although the era was sometimes called the Gilded Age, Robert Walker leaves superficiality behind and he cuts into ' the way it really was,' with quick and deft pen."
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Details
- Seller
- Grampy's Bookcase (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 2bc303209
- Title
- Everyday Life in The Age of Enterprise 1865-1900
- Author
- Robert H. Walker
- Format/Binding
- Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine.
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 4th Impression
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G. P. Putman's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Pages
- 255
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Gilded Age
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Grampy's Bookcase
Biblio member since 2018
Ridgeley, West Virginia
About Grampy's Bookcase
A private collector with over three thousand quality used books. Many books are quite old and cover many topics, particularly history and related social sciences. Included is a large collection of early and mid 20th century books on the history of the labor movement and socialist party in the United States. After a lifetime of collecting, looking for good homes for these prized editions.
Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...