The Grandees: America's Sephardic Elite
by Birmingham, Stephen
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 006010337X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060103378
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, Harper and Row, 1971, hardcover, xiii-368 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Good in Good dustjacket, Signed by the Author on the front endpaper. Straight and firmly bound, dampstain to top edge affecting front board and top of first 50 pages, non-authorial gift inscription to previous owner to half-title page, light spine-end and corner wear. Dustjacket price-clipped, edge nicks, darkening to spine, in new Brodart sleeve. The author of Our Crowd, The Right People, and Those Harper Women, presents an in-depth look at the tiny band of twenty-three Sephardim who arrived in the United States in 1654 from Spain, the rich and varied history of their descendants, and the impact they had on the development of the social, financial, and political landscape. Illustrated with 8 black-&-white plates. Appended: Sources, Index. An Abbreviated Genealogical Chart of America's Sephardic Elite attached inside rear cover. ISBN 9780060103378
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- Bookseller
- West of Eden Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10595
- Title
- The Grandees: America's Sephardic Elite
- Author
- Birmingham, Stephen
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition stated, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 006010337X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060103378
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publisher
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- This edition first published
- January 1, 1971
- Keywords
- Biography; Biography & Autobiography; General; History; Jews; Judaic; Reference; Sephardim; Social History; United States
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