'Our Crowd': The Great Jewish Families of New York
by Stephen Birmingham
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Longmans, Green & Co, 1968. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1968. This edition. 403 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pink cloth. Black and white photographs. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding slightly loose. Some water staining to textblock edges and some pages stuck together. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. Some heavy marks and water staining to surfaces. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine.
Synopsis
Our Crowd is a book by Stephen Birmingham that documents the lives of prominent New York Jewish families of the 19th Century. Historian Louis Auchincloss called it "A fascinating and absorbing chapter of New York social and financial history... " There have been 14 editions of the book as of 2007.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1706629311DPB
- Title
- 'Our Crowd': The Great Jewish Families of New York
- Author
- Stephen Birmingham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green & Co
- Date Published
- 1968
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- Cloth
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- Chipping
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- Shelf Wear
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- Edges
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