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Active Citizenship
by Harry Bard, Harold S. Manakee
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: The John C. Winston Company, 1951 The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia, PA. 1951. Hardcover. First Edition. Retired small public school library copy. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for library stamps to textblock edges and endpapers. Book Condition: Good; Sound internal hinges; pocket on front paste down; index number on spine; rubbing and soiling to boards. No DJ. Blue cloth boards and spine with red lettering on the spine and front board in white shadowbox. 506 pp 4to. A book on American citizenship full of questions and examples of what good citizenship really means and how it can be accomplished in the home, city, state and nation. The book is built on the five characteristics of good citizenship; knowledge, concern, action, recognition of democratic values, and judging values. A clean presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007135
- Title
- Active Citizenship
- Author
- Harry Bard, Harold S. Manakee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The John C. Winston Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 1951
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- citizenship, loyalty, pledge of allegiance, government, taxes, responsibility, politics, personality, religion, self-service, sacrifice, helping others, charity
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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