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The Runaway Generation: a Study in Depth of Our Alienated Children
by WEIN, Bibi
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- first
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: David McKay, 1970. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Turquoise cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 309pp. Mild bump to bottom board edge, endpapers foxed, upper edge of text block dusted, else a tight, Very Good or better copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $6.95 on front flap), foxed on verso but otherwise crisp; VG+.
Social study, by a young novelist, of the wayward youth of the Sixties. Her conclusions, based on in-depth interviews and case studies of school-age teens (many of them runaways), about drug use, street life, and radical politics, are generally sympathetic to the counter-cultural inclinations of her subjects. Includes chapters on The Diggers and Huckleberry House.
Social study, by a young novelist, of the wayward youth of the Sixties. Her conclusions, based on in-depth interviews and case studies of school-age teens (many of them runaways), about drug use, street life, and radical politics, are generally sympathetic to the counter-cultural inclinations of her subjects. Includes chapters on The Diggers and Huckleberry House.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63246
- Title
- The Runaway Generation: a Study in Depth of Our Alienated Children
- Author
- WEIN, Bibi
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- David McKay
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sixties; Student Movements;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Cloth
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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