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Liberty: The Statue and the American Dream
by Allen, Leslie
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0870445839
- ISBN 13
- 9780870445835
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation with the Cooperation of the National Geographic Society, 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. OVERSIZE. Hard cover in fine condition with faux brown leather boards, copper gilt lettering and decoratives on spine; front board with copper gilt stamp of Lady Liberty's head from a photograph by Peter B. Kaplan. End papers contain facsimile pages of names, with age, occupation, etc, completed by incoming immigrants. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Glossy pages throughout with color and black & white photographs on almost every page, many full page, along with detailed written history. Size 9"" wide x approx 103/4"" tall x 1"" thick; 304 numbered pages. Dust jacket very good with light shelf and edge wear; closed tear on front near spine.No price clipped; there is no price. * Volume was compiled and printed in honor of the Centennial of the Statue. Amazing story of the Statue itself along with Chapters which tell the detail story via narrative, historical documents, and photographs of the masses that passed through Ellis Island after seeing the Statue as they approached the New World: The lands they came from, their hopes and dreams in the promise of a young land, the shock of the Great City of New York, theirs years of hope and struggle and the enduring dream.
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- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M001294
- Title
- Liberty: The Statue and the American Dream
- Author
- Allen, Leslie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0870445839
- ISBN 13
- 9780870445835
- Publisher
- Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation with the Cooperation of the National Geographic Society
- Place of Publication
- [New York, N.Y.]
- Date Published
- 1985
- Size
- OVERSIZE
- LCCN
- 85017304
- Keywords
- History, Statue of Liberty - New York City - History, United States - Emigration and immigration - History, Statue of Liberty National Monument - History
- Bookseller catalogs
- History of New York; History of the United States;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2015
Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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- Facsimile
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Text Block
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- Fine
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- 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....
- New
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