The Fifties
by Halberstam, David
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0679415599
- ISBN 13
- 9780679415596
- Seller
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Gastonia, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Villard Books, 1993. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xi, 800 pp. First printing. Remainder mark on the upper page edges. The cover edges are scuffed, and the spine covering is creased. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean.
Synopsis
"A sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that David Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. It is the decade of Joe McCarthy and the young Martin Luther King, the Korean War and Levittown, Jack Kerouac and Elvis Presley."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Persephone's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 078912
- Title
- The Fifties
- Author
- Halberstam, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0679415599
- ISBN 13
- 9780679415596
- Publisher
- Villard Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Pages
- 800
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- United States - Social History Social History, 20th Century
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- Remainder Mark
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.