HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1993* Publisher: Hamlyn.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. Slight damp staining to lower corners. VG* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper, black and white titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £14.99. Some slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Some damp staining to lower corners inside and out. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, some slight marks to lower edges of paste-downs, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: Numerous colour & b/w photos, line drawings maps and diagrams within text throughout.* Pages: 171 pp. text. vi pp., acknowledgements, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: In the sweep of 20th. century history, the 1930?s stand out as a decade of darkness, as years of fear and desperation. The American boom of the 1920?s collapsed in the spectacular Wall Street Crash of 1929, plunging the entire world into a slump that brought misery to almost every nation. Depression and Dictatorship (1929-39) (History of the 20th Century) gives a survey of world events through the decade of the 1930s, looking at the effects of the 1929 Wall Street crash, the development of dictatorship in the Soviet Union, the rise of Fascism, and more.* A NEAR VG+ text copy of the 1st/1st with some minor faults in a VG protected dust jacket.* Briggs, Asa

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 901
Title: Depression and Dictatorship (1929-39)
Author: Ed., Asa Briggs
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - VG/VG/VG
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
ISBN 10: 0600579921
ISBN 13: 9780600579922
Publisher: Heinemann Library
Place of Publication: London UK 177
Date Published: 1993-09-30

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