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Tearing Down the Color Bar: A Documentary History and Analysis of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
by Wilson, Joseph F
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/very good +
- ISBN 10
- 0231064780
- ISBN 13
- 9780231064781
- Seller
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Newark, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: University of Columbia Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. 8vo. x, [2], 396 pp. Bound in full plum cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white photographs. Bibliography and index. Fine, crisp copy in Very Good+ dust jacket with light rubbing to extremities and small tear to upper edge of front cover.
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- Bookseller
- Garnet Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001366
- Title
- Tearing Down the Color Bar
- Author
- Wilson, Joseph F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0231064780
- ISBN 13
- 9780231064781
- Publisher
- University of Columbia Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Bookseller catalogs
- Labor History; African American History;
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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