Race and the American Romantics
by FREIMARCK, Vincent, and ROSENTHAL, Bernard (editors)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Schocken Books, 1971. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth, dust jacket. xi, 328pp. Very good/very good. Jacket a bit rubbed, with spine sunned; couple inoffensive light stains on outer page edges. Tight and attractive first edition of this volume in the "Sourcebooks in Negro History" series. Notes the front jacket panel, "The Writings on Slavery of Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Cullen Bryant, James Russell Lowell, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau." Uncommon and usually seen only in worn ex-library form.
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Details
- Seller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 32548
- Title
- Race and the American Romantics
- Author
- FREIMARCK, Vincent, and ROSENTHAL, Bernard (editors)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Schocken Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Black History;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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