Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of The Sixties Years of Hope Days of Rage by Todd Gitlin in a new archival wrap. First Edition unstated, 2021 Doubleday. First Printing with full number line.
The book is in Near Fine condition with bright boards with mild spotting, strong silver title ink on the lightly puckered spine, soiling to top page block, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with a 3-line inscription on the front paste-down, and no other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Fair to Good condition with the price cut from the front flap, mild surface wear and heavy edge wear, chips, gaps tears. Several repairs were made with acid-free tape and the book looks good in a new Brodart archival wrap.
In the first book about the Movement to be written by one of its leaders, Todd Gitlin brings together the seemingly diverse themes of that decade – civil rights, the Vietnam War, women’s liberation, the revolution in Western culture – and shows how they came together to produce an experience unprecedented in American life.
Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
