Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First edition. Hardcover in red cloth. Illustrated endpapers and additional illustrations by Friskey Strobel. 333 pp. Fine, small spot of offsetting to front free endpaper. In dust jacket, price clipped, some spine fade and shallow wear at the spine ends. An important portrait of the United States resulting from the authors tarvels in an election ear and his conversations with and observations about factory workers, corner bar beer-drinkers, industrialists, farmers, etc.

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Bookseller: The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: E17111B
Title: State Of The Nation
Author: Dos Passos, John
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: very good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1944
Keywords: history, americana, elections, world war II, public opinion, essays,

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The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)

TRACKING AND INSURANCE AT OPTION OF BUYER. ON UNINSURED ITEMS, OUR RESPONSIBILITY ENDS WITH PROOF OF SHIPPING---NO EXCEPTIONS! Books are returnable if misdescribed; we must be notified within 48 hours of receipt if making a return. We conform to accepted ABAA grading. "First edition" means "first printing" unless noted; if it doesn't say it has a jacket then it doesn't; faults such as ownership signatures, price clipping, etc. will be noted in the listing. Member ABAA, ILAB, ABNJ.

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About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)

The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).

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