THE PENDERGAST MACHINE
by DORSETT, LYLE W
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Nearly Fine/Nearly Fine
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press, 1968. INSCRIBED, DATED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR in front free endpaper. From the front blurb, "For five full decades, from 1890 to 1940, the Pendergast Machine of Kansas City was one of the most notorious and powerful political organizations in America". 163pp.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Yellow Cloth. Nearly Fine/Nearly Fine. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014002
- Title
- THE PENDERGAST MACHINE
- Author
- DORSETT, LYLE W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Nearly Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Nearly Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Kansas City, Kansas City History
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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