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The Rape of Our Neighborhoods: And How Communities are Resisting Take-overs by Colleges, Hospitals, Churches, Businesses, and Public Agencies
by Worthy, William
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0688003184
- ISBN 13
- 9780688003180
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1976. Account of and advice for citizens fighting to keep larger entities from converting habitable neighborhoods to parking lots and shopping malls, based on the author's own fight to save his apartment building from a hospital's expansion plans. Worthy was an important African-American civil rights activist, journalist & teacher. First printing (first edition). Hardcover, ivory cloth over charcoal boards, orange titling. light wear to book; jacket shows light rubbing, one short tear to the head of the spine, minor chipping. Text clean; 276 pages; index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- p0046
- Title
- The Rape of Our Neighborhoods: And How Communities are Resisting Take-overs by Colleges, Hospitals, Churches, Businesses, and Public Agencies
- Author
- Worthy, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0688003184
- ISBN 13
- 9780688003180
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Urban Renewal, Urban Studies, Gentrification, Eminent Domain
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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