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On Being Homeless: Historical Perspectives; Essays published to accompany the exhibition On Being Homeless: An Historical Perspective 24 November 1987 through 27 March 1988
by Beard, Rick, editor
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/good +
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Museum of the City of New York, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. 176 p.: illustrations; 29 cm. Maroon cloth with gilt spine title. Maroon endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Contains essays by David J. Rothman, Kenneth L. Kusmer, Marsha A. Martin, Lisa N. Peters, Kenneth T. Jackson, Elizabeth Wickenden, Kim Hopper, Rick Bard, and Susan Marsden Kapsis. Book is in Very Good Condition: upper page edges and fore-edges slightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good+ Condition: light stain near lower edge of front section; spine rubbed; several closed tears of 1 cm. or less and one repaired 2-cm. tear from upper edge of back section.
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- Classic Books and Ephemera
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007820
- Title
- On Being Homeless: Historical Perspectives; Essays published to accompany the exhibition On Being Homeless: An Historical Perspective 24 November 1987 through 27 March 1988
- Author
- Beard, Rick, editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Museum of the City of New York
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History; Women's History & Biography; History & Politics;
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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- Good+
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- Gilt
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