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Stranger at the Gates: A Summer in Mississippi
by Tracy Sugarman
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/Very good jacket, light soiling, lightly chipped around worn edges
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Hill and Wang, 1966. First edition. Hardcover, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 8vo, 240 pp. Very good/Very good jacket, light soiling, lightly chipped around worn edges. Jacket illustration by Tracy Sugarman; jacket design y Erik Blegvad. Sugarman's illustrated memoir of civil rights organizing in Oxford, Mississippi during the summer of 1964. Introduction by Fanie Lou Hamer.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1025
- Title
- Stranger at the Gates
- Author
- Tracy Sugarman
- Illustrator
- Jacket illustration by Tracy Sugarman; jacket design y Erik Blegvad
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 8vo, 240 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good jacket, light soiling, lightly chipped around worn edges
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hill and Wang
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Civil rights movement, Tracy Sugarman, Fanie Lou Hamer, Oxford, 1960s, Mississippi
Terms of Sale
Better Read Than Dead
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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.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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