THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS: AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF DENVER AND THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
por Perkin, Robert L
- Usado
- Perto de Excelente
- Capa dura
- Condição
- Perto de Excelente/Good Plus
- Livreiro
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Creswell, Oregon, United States
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Sobre este item
Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good Plus. Light sunning to lower edge of book. Tiny chips along DJ top edge, about .25 x 1" chip to upper DJ spine, shelfwear and age-tanning to DJ panels. Gilt lettering in a red block on spine, gray cloth-covered boards. Pictorial endpapers showing the State Museum model of Denver in 1860. New plastic covering to DJ. Unmarked text. 624 pp with acknowledgements, bibliography and index. Foreword by Gene Fowler. illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. Perkins chronicles the history of a great western city and its newspaper, from the early pioneer days of the Rocky Mountains with its mountain settlers, Indian marauders, Horace Greeley, the new railroads and famous American journalists like Damon Runyon and Lowell Thomas. Tales of corrupt politics, wide-open gambling towns, and colorful eyebrow-raising events in a time where newspapermen usually kept a six-shooter on his desk!
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- The Sensible Magpie
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 348
- Título
- THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS: AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF DENVER AND THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
- Autor
- Perkin, Robert L
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Perto de Excelente
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Good Plus
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Editorial
- Doubleday
- Local de publicação
- Garden City
- Data de publicação
- 1959
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