Flight to America: The Social Background of 300,000 Danish Emigrants
by HVIDT, KRISTIAN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
Academic Press 1975. FIRST EDITION, 1975 INSCRIBED DATED & SIGNED, THEN INSCRIBED & DATED AGAIN BY AUTHOR IN 1992, LOOSELY ENCLOSED THREE PUBLISHED BOUND ARTICLES BY AUTHOR- ONE INSCRIBED & SIGNED, super octavo, brown faux leather boards, orange lettering & silver gilt trim to spine & front board, viii + 214pp, illus/diagrams, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some minor loss, moderate tanning, foxing & chafing/soiling)
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- Title
- Flight to America: The Social Background of 300,000 Danish Emigrants
- Author
- HVIDT, KRISTIAN
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Academic Press 1975
- Keywords
- first edition signed US America American migration Denmark Danish social history
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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- Gilt
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- VG
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