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POWDER KEG: A Personal Memoir of Growing Up a Knickerbocker and the Family History of How They Came.
by Knickerbocker, Barbara
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
- ISBN 10
- 0981776817
- ISBN 13
- 9780981776811
- Seller
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About This Item
New London, NH:: BKB Press,, (2008). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. Although Knickerbocker is an American name (there are no Knickerbockers in The Netherlands), the author grew up with her family history drummed into her by her elders. Raised during the Great Depression, she found her adult life profoundly influenced by her family's history. The first part of this book is a memoir of growing up during the Great Depression. "She and her parents were crammed into the top floor of Grandma Knickerbocker's home. Childhood was spent dealing with a feisty housekeeper, and an unrepentant grandmother who needed her son's help, but resented his young family's intrusion into her life." Part II recounts the history of the Walloons in the Belgic lowlands, and Part III is an early history of the two families - the Vincents and the Knickerbakkers and the founding of New York City. Illustrated with photographs. SIGNED on the title page and very personally INSCRIBED and signed on the half title page. Bibliography, index. xiv, 287 pp.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86104
- Title
- POWDER KEG: A Personal Memoir of Growing Up a Knickerbocker and the Family History of How They Came.
- Author
- Knickerbocker, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0981776817
- ISBN 13
- 9780981776811
- Publisher
- BKB Press,
- Place of Publication
- New London, NH:
- Date Published
- (2008)
- Keywords
- family history, memoir, depression, new york history, genealogy,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography, autobiography, memoirs;
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