The Making of an American
by Jacob A. Riis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No dust jacket
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, New York, 1906. Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First edition, eleventh printing. 443 pp plus 2 pp advertising in back. Text is white, clean, unmarked and illustrated with b/w photographs throughout. Fore edge is deckled and top edge is tinted brown. Autobiography of a Danish immigrant, who become newspaper editor, photographer and social worker in New York City during the construction and occupancy of turn of the century tenements.
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- Bookseller
- Select Tomes (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100183
- Title
- The Making of an American
- Author
- Jacob A. Riis
- Format/Binding
- Gray pictorial cloth over boards with blue titles and borders and blue/red American eagle insignia on front board, blue and red
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, eleventh printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1906
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Size
- 5 1/2 x 7 3/4
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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I am making available selections from my collection of eclectic, historical and sometimes rare books. My collection includes historical novels, cookbooks, textbooks and children's books along with other ephemera.
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- Fore Edge
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