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AN AMERICAN EXODUS: A Record of Human Erosion.
by Lange, Dorothea and Paul S. Taylor
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in moderately worn jacket with chip to jacket spine head and at lower left corner of jacket rear panel
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About This Item
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1939). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in moderately worn jacket with chip to jacket spine head and at lower left corner of jacket rear panel. Quarto, original navy blue cloth with gilt titles, 158 pp., illustrated with black and white photos throughout, jacket. (Jacket rear panel with Voltaire quote).
The compelling visual chronicle of America's great migrations of 1939: the exodus of Black day laborers and tenant farmers from the deep South and the flight of drought-stricken farming families from the mid-continental dust bowl.
The compelling visual chronicle of America's great migrations of 1939: the exodus of Black day laborers and tenant farmers from the deep South and the flight of drought-stricken farming families from the mid-continental dust bowl.
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- Chanticleer Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23689
- Title
- AN AMERICAN EXODUS: A Record of Human Erosion.
- Author
- Lange, Dorothea and Paul S. Taylor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in moderately worn jacket with chip to jacket spine head and at lower left corner of jacket rear panel
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Reynal & Hitchcock
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1939)
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