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Man's Struggle for Shelter in an Urbanizing World
by Abrams, Charles
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0262010100
- ISBN 13
- 9780262010108
- Seller
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1970. Signed in green ink by author on title pages 8vo size trade paperback; 160 pages From back: "Peopled by such dubitable heroes as Pocus Snarple, Spoffie Pendelton, and the Flying Farquhars of Eastham, these yarns are about mermaids on the other fishwives, fisherman catching woodchucks from rowboats, fogs strong enough to alter the architecture, rabbits surfboarding on lily pads, razor clam showers, migratory turnips, corpses hauled out annually for family photographs, and other topics even less likely." Wear to covers with edgewear and curling; creased bottom corner of last page, pages tips at the beginning and end of book are curled. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Charity Bookstall
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004911
- Title
- Man's Struggle for Shelter in an Urbanizing World
- Author
- Abrams, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0262010100
- ISBN 13
- 9780262010108
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Date Published
- 1970
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- shelter; housing; urbanization; cities; industrialization; Population explosion; homeless; housing; World Affairs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Non-Fiction;
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