Rock Bottom: a Woman's Proud, Desperate Journey from Mississippi to Harlem
by Conrad, Earl
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1952. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket. First edition. Gray cloth boards, sharp, clean, mild age toning to edges. Protected, unclipped, dustjacket is in fair condition; there are two large pieces torn from spine, edges are rubbed; nicks and chips; age toning to back panel. Interior is crisp and bright. Free of any markings, not ex-library.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages .
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- Bookseller
- KULTURAs books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12505
- Title
- Rock Bottom: a Woman's Proud, Desperate Journey from Mississippi to Harlem
- Author
- Conrad, Earl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- Stated First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Fiction. African-american Women. Harriet Tubman. Jim Crow America.
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- Fair
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Crisp
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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