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The Real Disaster Is Above Ground: A Mine Fire and Social Conflict
by Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen & Stephen Robert Couch
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0813116678
- ISBN 13
- 9780813116679
- Seller
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Skyway, Washington, United States
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About This Item
University Press of Kentucky, 1990. 1st printing. Inscribed by Stephen Couch on title page. Tight and clean hardcover in full red cloth binding. 200pp. Jacket is rubbed along edges and offered now in a new mylar cover. The Centralia, Pennsylvannia, mine fire.. Inscribed and Signed By Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.
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- Bookseller
- Turn-The-Page Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 061319
- Title
- The Real Disaster Is Above Ground: A Mine Fire and Social Conflict
- Author
- Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen & Stephen Robert Couch
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0813116678
- ISBN 13
- 9780813116679
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Place of Publication
- Lexington, Ky, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1990
- Size
- 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
- Keywords
- Mining Disaster History Coal
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About the Seller
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- Cloth
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- Inscribed
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- Tight
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- First Edition
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