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The Rascal King; The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958)
by Jack Beatty
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0201175991
- ISBN 13
- 9780201175998
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
$8.00$5.60
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About This Item
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1992 Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, MA. 1992. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. A William Patrick Book. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; scant bumping to head and tail. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($25.00); light bumping to head and tail. light rubbing to panels. Gray boards with blue cloth overlay on the spine with bright copper lettering on the spine. 571 pp 8vo. Curley was a Boston politician, mayor of Boston, a congressman, the governor of Massachusetts who rose form the Irish slums to a career at the highest level of Presidential politics. Twice-jailed and the people's champion, a shameless grafter, pioneer of the New Deal of FDR, spellbinding orator and master of political farce, he was a politician of the old school of political favors and graft. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011088
- Title
- The Rascal King; The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958)
- Author
- Jack Beatty
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0201175991
- ISBN 13
- 9780201175998
- Publisher
- Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Reading, MA
- Date Published
- 1992
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Boston, Boston Politics, graft, James Michael Curley, The Rascal King, Massachusetts political bosses, Irish legacy, politics, FDR, New Deal, Irish politics, immigrant politics, Celtic Flood, Governor of Massachusetts, kickbacks, corrupt politics, crooked
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies; Americana;
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Price Clipped
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- Spine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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