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Small World... Long Gone: A Family Record of an Era
by Avis Carlson
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
$10.00$7.00
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About This Item
Evanston, IL: The Schori Press, 1976 The Schori Press, Evanston, IL. 1976. Hardcover. Stated 2nd Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O bookplate on the FFFP. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to tail. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($6.95); chipping and missing small pieces at head and tail; light shelfwear to tips; light suntoning to spine; closed tear at rear upper flap fold. Brown woodgrain boards and spine with gilt lettering on the spine. Woodcuts of Richardson Hall at Southwestern College in Winfield Kansas as endpapers. Clean internals; internal hinges are sound and not split. 154 pp 8vo. This book is an honest record of life at the turn of the 20th Century when farm life was and isolated existence, when church attendance meant social contact, once a week, and going to town was a seven mile ride in a spring wagon. The setting is the Flint Hills of Eastern Kansas and living on a farm and the long hours of work that entailed by all family members. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014101
- Title
- Small World... Long Gone: A Family Record of an Era
- Author
- Avis Carlson
- Illustrator
- Hershel C. Logan-Woodcuts
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Schori Press
- Place of Publication
- Evanston, IL
- Date Published
- 1976
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- autobiography, Kansas history, Flint Hills history, farming, wheat farming, rural life, religion,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Kansas Related; Autobiography;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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