The Sieve: or, Revelations of the Man Mill. Being the Truth About American Immigration
by WEISS, Feri Felix
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: The Page Company, 1921. Second Printing. Octavo. Blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and with applied pictorial cover illustration; xiv, 307pp; frontispiece + 15 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Slight lean to binding; minor edge-rubbing to boards; a tight, Very Good copy. Nativist polemic, warning against the flood of European immigrants following the First World War as being of a generally degenerate and disease-carrying character as well as bearers of ideologies antithetical to red-blooded Americanism -- communism and anarchism in particular. Weiss, himself a German immigrant, was a one-time Special Investigator for the Immigration Service who had advocated "extra-legal" methods for keeping undesirable aliens from entering the country.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32365
- Title
- The Sieve: or, Revelations of the Man Mill. Being the Truth About American Immigration
- Author
- WEISS, Feri Felix
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Publisher
- The Page Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1921
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social History; Immigration; WW1;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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- Leaves
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- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...