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A. M. B. [Albert M. Bender] some aspects of his life and times begun in a playful mood for his entertainment on his 75th birthday and now completed for his sorrowing friends as a token of remembrance and affection
by Lewis, Oscar
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- Hardcover
- first
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1941. Hardcover. [iv] 14p., 8.25x11.5 inches, frontis-portrait, color plate laid-in, introduction, two b&w photos tipped-in to plates, hinges cracked, tanning to endpapers, shelfwear, cloth over blue boards, bumped, paper spine label. Originally written to be a booklet for guests at the San Francisco insurance agent's 75th birthday, he died shortly before the day. Published posthumously. The illustration laid-in is of Bender getting on a train with three racial stereotype African American porters bowing to him with the caption "Albert Bender and other benders
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- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 168984
- Title
- A. M. B. [Albert M. Bender] some aspects of his life and times begun in a playful mood for his entertainment on his 75th birthday and now completed for his sorrowing friends as a token of remembrance and affection
- Author
- Lewis, Oscar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grabhorn Press
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1941
- Bookseller catalogs
- San Francisco; California; 1940S; Racism;
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..
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