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The Strange Career of Jim Crow: A Brief Account of Segregation
by Vann Woodward, C
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good (+), tight binding, touch of wear to corners, trace soiling and handling wear, pages somewhat age-toned./Good jacket, small chipping throughout edges, light creasing and rubbing, aside minor chips all material present.
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press, 1957. New and Revised Edition. 12mo, 183 pp. Blue boards with black lettering stamped to spine. Very Good (+), tight binding, touch of wear to corners, trace soiling and handling wear, pages somewhat age-toned./Good jacket, small chipping throughout edges, light creasing and rubbing, aside minor chips all material present.. First printing, two years after initial publication, of the "New and Revised Edition" of Vann Woodward's cornerstone of Black History -- an essential document to the Civil Rights movement contemporaneous with its publication, and illuminating of the fact that its roots were anything but nascent.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 341
- Title
- The Strange Career of Jim Crow
- Author
- Vann Woodward, C
- Format/Binding
- 12mo, 183 pp. Blue boards with black lettering stamped to spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (+), tight binding, touch of wear to corners, trace soiling and handling wear, pages somewhat age-toned.
- Jacket Condition
- Good jacket, small chipping throughout edges, light creasing and rubbing, aside minor chips all material present.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- New and Revised Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
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
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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