Generation of Vipers
by WYLIE, Philip
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Rinehart & Company. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 1942. Hardcover. Stated (on jacket) 13th printing. First published in 1942, this work pulled no punches in its wide-ranging series of essays examining American life. Mr. Wylie, among other topics, criticized Christianity, teachers, doctors, even motherhood. --- In full grey cloth covers with titling in green to cover and spine. Dust jacket in green. --- Interior leaves somewhat tanned but volume is unmarked and tightly-bound. Dust jacket with chafing and small tears along edges, else intact and now in removable mylar protector.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); xxiii, 318 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 82218
- Title
- Generation of Vipers
- Author
- WYLIE, Philip
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Rinehart & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>American Society, Life in the US;
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Littleton, Colorado
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