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Alistair Cooke's America
by Cooke, Alistair
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0563121823
- ISBN 13
- 9780563121824
- Seller
-
Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1973 0563121823. Hardback. First edition. First printing. Very Good/Very Good. Book printed in USA with the usual superior American binding. Burgundy hardcover with white spine in unclipped BCA DJ. pp 400 including index. Maps on endpapers. A tight, clean copy; contents are bright and clean; no previous names, markings etc. The unclipped dust jacket is clean, smooth and bright. Size: super octavo 11" x 8". Expanded version of Cooke's acclaimed 13 part BBC television series. The story of the USA from before its discovery by Europeans to 1973. With many colour and black and white photographs and illustrations. This book also contains an array of paintings both old and new, drawings, cartoons, and memorabilia which supplement the narrative. A heavy book, will require extra postage. .
Synopsis
For years legendary broadcaster Alistair Cooke brought America to the rest of the world with incomparable wit and wisdom. This is his now classic and irresistibly readable 'personal history' of America: guiding us through centuries of changing life in the US.Beginning with his own arrival in America as a graduate in the 1930s: Alistair Cooke goes on to write about the explorers who put their new-found land on the map: the pioneers who tamed the Wild West: the soldiers who fought for independence and the tycoons who built fortunes. From the Mayflower to the gold rush: the jazz age to Pearl Harbour: with portraits of figures as varied as Buffalo Bill: John D. Rockefeller and Martin Luther King: here is the American story in all its triumphs and failures: grandeurs and tragedies. It is the defining portrait of a nation.
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Details
- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1832
- Title
- Alistair Cooke's America
- Author
- Cooke, Alistair
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0563121823
- ISBN 13
- 9780563121824
- Publisher
- London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1973 0563121823
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1973
- Keywords
- HISTORY; TRAVEL ALISTAIR COOKE, AMERICA, EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION, BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION GEOGRAPHY & MAPS
Terms of Sale
David Edward Hellawell
I will refund the cost if the book is returned within 7 days with details of where the description was faulty.
About the Seller
David Edward Hellawell
Biblio member since 2007
Bromsgrove, West Midlands
About David Edward Hellawell
Professor Emeritus now selling off the stock of a lifetime.
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