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Portrait of a Decade : the Second American Revolution
by Anthony Lewis ; New York Times
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394444124
- ISBN 13
- 9780394444123
- Seller
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Arlington, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1964. Hardcover. First Edition / First Printing (stated). Dark blue cloth over boards with gold lettering to spine. Eight plates B&W photos. Very Good book. No jacket. Book plate to FFEP. Text block pristine. Spine straight, ends bumped. Cover clean and bright. Very handsome on a bookshelf. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 322 pages. A first hand account of the struggle for Civil Rights from 1954-1964.
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- Bookseller
- Books of the World
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000002793
- Title
- Portrait of a Decade : the Second American Revolution
- Author
- Anthony Lewis ; New York Times
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394444124
- ISBN 13
- 9780394444123
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Pages
- 322
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- African Americans, civil rights, United States
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics & Government; History;
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