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Our Cities Awake: Notes on Municipal Activities and Administration
by Cooke, Morris Llewellyn
- Used
- Condition
- Good +
- Seller
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Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918. Cloth. Good +. 8vo. 351 pp. Rust-colored cloth with gilt titling and circular white paper onlay to front board. Some wrinkling to cloth, sunning to spine and partial rear board. Ex-library with usual markings: spine label, bookplate, discard stamps to several leaves at front. Rest of text clean, with black and white photos. Few leaves lightly creased, binding cracked at places but holding sturdy.
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Details
- Seller
- small volume
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 521
- Title
- Our Cities Awake: Notes on Municipal Activities and Administration
- Author
- Cooke, Morris Llewellyn
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1918
- Keywords
- industrial, municipal, city, city planning, engineer
Terms of Sale
small volume
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
small volume
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Providence, Rhode Island
About small volume
Small Volume is based out of Providence, RI. We buy + sell old, rare, odd, unusual, and otherwise collectible books + ephemera.
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- Gilt
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- Bookplate
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