THE AMERICAN CONSCIENCE.
by Burlingame, Roger (1889-1967)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a fair only dust jacket with overall edgewear, toning to interi/dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a fair only
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1957.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a fair only dust jacket with overall edgewear, toning to interior. . First printing. From a search for religious freedom, to independence, slavery, abolition, the frontier and prohibition, the end of the American dream and more, this is a "panorama of three centuries of American behavior, seen through the moral judgments of the people upon themselves." Bibliography, index. 420, xv p.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 82140
- Title
- THE AMERICAN CONSCIENCE.
- Author
- Burlingame, Roger (1889-1967)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a fair only dust jacket with overall edgewear, toning to interi
- Jacket Condition
- dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a fair only
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1957.
- Bookseller catalogs
- History: USA;
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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