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CollectibleGood. Doubleday Anchor #A259, nice vintage cover art depicting a train and a map of the southern US, copy is tight and unmarked, mild cover wear/tear, no tanning. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.

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Cornell Univeristy Press, 1961. Paper Back. Fair. Pages are very clean and bright with no markings. Moderate rubbing to the edges and corners. Binding is fine.

Cover and spine show color loss. Wear around edges of cover.Text unmarked, spine tight. First published in France in 1833. First American publication anchor books 1961. A look at the US in the 1830s and the start of industrialization.. Price sticker on front cover..

Burt Franklin, 1969-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Missing. Ex-library hardbound without dust jacket. Burt Franklin reprint, 1969, in blue cloth covers. Library labels on spine and cover, notation on front free endpaper, else no markings noted, mild wear.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Society, Manners and Politics in the United States being a series of letters on North America ... Translated from the third Paris edition [by Thomas G. Bradford]..

Jazzybee Verlag, 2017. Paperback. New. 318 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.72 inches.

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iv+467+[1 ad] pages with tables. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6"). bound in original publisher's blue-green cloth decoratively blind-stamped stamped with gilt lettering to spine. Translated from the third Paris edition of the previous year. (Howes: C359) First American edition.Michel Chevalier, later a well-known economist, went to America to study public works for the French government. He spent two years in America, from 1833 to 1835. He had "a reputation among his contemporaries equal to that of de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont," according to Monaghan, and his book "still remains as one of the most important French commentaries on the Untied States." He traveled extensively in the Northeast and South, including Virginia, South Carolina and New Orleans.Condition:Spine ends professionally restored, corners bumped, previous owner's name on front end paper in pencil. A very good copy.

1839. CHEVALIER, Michel. Society, Manners and Politics in the United States: Being a Series of Letters on North America. Boston, 1839. 1st American ed. and 1st ed. in English. 467pp. Orig. cloth. Howes C-359. Chevalier's account contains much information concerning transportation in general and the railroads in particular. He discusses American politics at length, with particular emphasis on Andrew Jackson and slavery.