Alger: A Biography Without a Hero
de Mayes, Herbert R
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- GOOD+
- Librería
-
Bethel, Connecticut, United States
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Sobre este artículo
NY: Macy-Masius, 1928. (1st edition). Hardbound. GOOD+. Tight binding, light age soil to covers, slight sun fading to spine, unmarked text, square. No dust jacket. Map endpapers. Over a dozen full page, black and white glossy photos, mostly of drawings for Alger book covers. 6.25x9.25x1.25" Full list of books written by Horatio Alger, Jr. 241 pages. "His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on the United States during the Gilded Age. All of Alger's juvenile novels share essentially the same theme, known as the "Horatio Alger myth": a teenage boy works hard to escape poverty..."
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- Librería
- Rainy Day Paperback Exchange
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 0-9H002
- Título
- Alger: A Biography Without a Hero
- Autor
- Mayes, Herbert R
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardbound
- Estado del libro
- Usado - GOOD+
- Edición
- (1st edition)
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Macy-Masius
- Lugar de publicación
- NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1928
- Palabras clave
- Catálogos del vendedor
- BIO007000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
