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New American Blues: A Journey Through Poverty to Democracy
by Shorris, Earl
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393045544
- ISBN 13
- 9780393045543
- Seller
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About This Item
New Rochelle, New York, USA: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in FINE Condition. Mylar jacket cover. The reader is taken into the lives of the poor - in Oakland, rural Tennessee, El Paso, the South Bronx - to help understand who they are and to see through their eyes the lives they live and the boundaries of their horizon. Inscription on the front endpaper: To Winnie who cares so much for the poor, as a gift in1997. Doesn't appear to be author's signature. Navy half-cloth binding, gilt lettered, with tan speckled paper-wrapped boards; clean and unmarked. Tight, solid, square. Jacket is bright, clean, unmarked. 432 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. W W Norton & Co, New York, 1997.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012434
- Title
- New American Blues: A Journey Through Poverty to Democracy
- Author
- Shorris, Earl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393045544
- ISBN 13
- 9780393045543
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Co Inc
- Place of Publication
- New Rochelle, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- POVERTY; GOVERNMENT POLICY; POOR- UNITED STATES;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics & Government;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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