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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
by HAROLD UNDERWOOD FAUKNER
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON : GEORGE ALLEN AND UNWIN , 1938 Brown cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 240 x 160 mm approx. xxii + 772 pp. 17 b/w illustrations and 23 maps all as called for. Intro by Harold J Laski. First Edition 1938. The copy offered has a presentation plate to the front paste down to W R Spence (William Robert 1875-1954) from the National Union of Seamen. Spence served as General Secretary of the Union from 1931-1941 and also on the general council of The Trades Union Congress, retiring to Shoreham Sussex. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good no dust jacket (Book- shelf rubbing to cloth at extremities- colour loss only, presentation plate as above, a few corners turned in the course of a reading. Binding sound with no other notable defects).
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 132590
- Title
- A SHORT HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
- Author
- HAROLD UNDERWOOD FAUKNER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- GEORGE ALLEN AND UNWIN
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- A Short History of the American People, H U Faulkner, Anglo-American Relations, The Settlement of America, Colonial Life, The American Revolution, Industrial Revolution, The Old South, World War I, Roosevelt and the New Deal, American Foreign Affairs, Po
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