Illiterate America
by Kozol, Jonathan
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385195362
- ISBN 13
- 9780385195362
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A: Anchor Books/ Doubleday, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Signed by Author. Signed by Author on Title Page. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Blue half cloth binding with silver titles, red paper-wrapped boards, very clean and unmarked, with slight rubbing to bottom edges. Tight & solid. Internals very clean and free from any markings. Jacket is unclipped, scuffed on the front over the author's name. Kozol states that one out of every three American adults cannot read this book--which is why every one else must. 25 million American adults cannot read the poison warnings on a can of pesticide. Kozol addresses this social and economic disaster with ideas for change. 270 pages with Notes and Index. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. Anchor Books/Doubleday, New York, 1985.
Synopsis
"Kozol...has assembled facts, rebuttals, and proposalsin an emotionally potent, ethically charged package." Kirkus .
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020496
- Title
- Illiterate America
- Author
- Kozol, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0385195362
- ISBN 13
- 9780385195362
- Publisher
- Anchor Books/ Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A
- Date Published
- 1985
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- LITERACY; LANGUAGE ARTS; DISCIPLINES;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Education;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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- Rubbing
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- Title Page
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...