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First Generation: In the Words of Twentieth-Century American Immigrants
by Namias, June
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 080705416X
- ISBN 13
- 9780807054161
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Beacon Press, 1978. CE2 - A hard cover first edition withdrawn ex-library book in good+ condition. A sequence of numbers appears on back of the title page with the "1" present with no additional printings indicated. A tight, clean, sound copy in textured dark brown paper covered boards with gold lettering on the spine and a gold graphic on the front with very minor overall shefl wear plus there is some tape staining on the outside board surfaces and front and back free endpapers from where the dust jacket was taped to the boards plus there are the usual library stams, label, and pocket on the top and bottom outside paper edges, title page, and back free endpaper plus there is some dogearing of the last page. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear mainly in the form of some very, very light edge wear along the spine top and bottom edges plus there is a library label on the spine plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A collection of oral histories that deal with the American immigrant experience from a multi-ethnic approach. It contains the stories of thirty-one immigrants who arrive in the United States between 1900 and the 1970s. Endnotes, bibliography, 234p.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 5.75"x8.25". Ex-Library.
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- Seller
- Bookmarc's
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- Seller's Inventory #
- SCW08414
- Title
- First Generation: In the Words of Twentieth-Century American Immigrants
- Author
- Namias, June
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 080705416X
- ISBN 13
- 9780807054161
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Nonfiction Non-fiction History American America United States US USA U.S. U.S.A. Emigration Immigration Immigrant Immigrations Sociology Science Social Sciences Social 20th Century Twentieth Century First Generation History Oral Histories Oral 1970s 1900
- Bookseller catalogs
- History: World; Ethnic Studies; Biography / Autobiography; Biography / Biography Collections; History: World / Immigration & Emigration; Ethnic Studies / Immigrant Americans;
- Size
- 5.75"x8.25"
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