WHEN DEMOCRACY BUILDS
by WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd
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About This Item
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945. Quarto. Cloth. Plates. Bookplate to front pastedown, else a very good or better copy in a largely intact dust jacket with some loss at the margins of the rear panel. First edition thus, being a considerably revised and expanded version of THE DISAPPEARING CITY, as Wright states in his Afterword in this remarkable edition. SWEENEY 609.
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- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140
- Title
- WHEN DEMOCRACY BUILDS
- Author
- WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1945
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- Quarto
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