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How the Other Half Lived: a People's Guide to American Historic Sites
by Burnham, Philip
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0571198627
- ISBN 13
- 9780571198627
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Faber & Faber, 1995. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. New York: Faber & Faber, 1995. Very Good+/Very Good. Hardcover book (no edition stated) in original dust jacket. Brown boards with black cloth spine, unchipped gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 229 pages. Dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, has one short closed edge tear, hint of very light soiling. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Examines the history of minorities, manual laborers, women and people of color at more than thirty historic sites, including: Litle Bighorn Battlefield; Horseshoe Bend, Alabama; Deerfield, Massachusetts; Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts; West Mystic, Connecticut; Mount Vernon, Virginia; Somerset Place, Croswell, North Carolina; St. Augustine, Florida; The Alamo, Santonio, Texas; Women's Rights National Historic Park, Seneca Falls, NY; California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento, California.and more..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027897
- Title
- How the Other Half Lived: a People's Guide to American Historic Sites
- Author
- Burnham, Philip
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0571198627
- ISBN 13
- 9780571198627
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- AMERICAN HISTORIC SITES, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WOMEN'S HISTORY IN THE U.S., MINORITIES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women; Political;
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- Tight
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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