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Race Riots New York 1964: What Really Happened as it Happened Before the Eyes of Two Trained Observers
by Fred C. Shapiro and James W. Sullivan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, lightly toned cloth boards with light soiling to back/Very good jacket, lightly chipped and worn around edges and spine ends, tear to top of cover into front flap
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1964. First printing. Hardcover octavo gray cloth boards with white and orange spine lettering in illustrated dust jacket, 222 pp. Very good, lightly toned cloth boards with light soiling to back/Very good jacket, lightly chipped and worn around edges and spine ends, tear to top of cover into front flap. Jacket design by Ben Feder.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 747
- Title
- Race Riots New York 1964
- Author
- Fred C. Shapiro and James W. Sullivan
- Illustrator
- Jacket design by Ben Feder
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover octavo gray cloth boards with white and orange spine lettering in illustrated dust jacket, 222 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, lightly toned cloth boards with light soiling to back
- Jacket Condition
- Very good jacket, lightly chipped and worn around edges and spine ends, tear to top of cover into front flap
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thomas Y. Crowell
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
Biblio member since 2023
Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
Glossary
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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