The Story of America in Pictures: New Revised Edition
by COLLINS, Alan C
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1953. Hardcover. A 1953 updated edition of a work which first appeared in 1935, in which the history of the US and North America is told using black & white paintings, drawings and photos. The author has provided captions for each, which describe the original Indian tribes, the earliest European settlers, through the post-World War II scene. Includes an introduction by Claude G. Bowers. --- In blue paper-covered boards backed in red cloth, gilt-stamped spine titling on blue blocks, with additional decorations in gilt and blue; blue topstain. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With spotting to topstain and small specks of soiling to covers, otherwise a sound, tightly-bound copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; 480 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85530
- Title
- The Story of America in Pictures: New Revised Edition
- Author
- COLLINS, Alan C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>American History & Politics;
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