A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
First edition, first printing of Zinn's classic, although controversial, history of the United States, presenting what he considered to be a different side of history from the more traditional "fundamental nationalist glorification of country."
New York: Harper & Row, 1980. Publisher's original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; pp. [x], 614. A very good copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight, sturdy and square. Minimal wear to boards with a bit of sunning to board extremities, light foxing and rubbing to text block edges. Princeton professor's name and date to flyleaf, else internally clean with no markings. Jacket shows light general shelfwear with the typical toning to spine and panel edges. A nice copy, scarce in the first printing, protected in archival mylar.