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Kansas Irish (Newly Illustrated Edition)
by Charles B. Driscoll
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1929731094
- ISBN 13
- 9781929731091
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Wichita, KS: Rowfant Press , 2011 Rowfant Press, Wichita, KS. 2011. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Edition by Rowfant. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 300 pp 8vo. The author was a first generation Irish who writes of his family and his upbringing on a farmstead at the Arkansas River and South Hydraulic Street in Wichita Kansas where he was born in 1885. His father, Florence or Big Flurry, was from Ireland, married a girl from New York and moved to Wichita to become a farmer, a profession he was not good at. The author tells of family life, his upbringing, the problems of being Irish and Catholic in Kansas, and of a multitude of family problems both farming and marital. The author went on to graduate from Friends University, was the editor of the Wichita Eagle in 1912, and later moved to New York where he was a successful journalist and columnist. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015293
- Title
- Kansas Irish (Newly Illustrated Edition)
- Author
- Charles B. Driscoll
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1929731094
- ISBN 13
- 9781929731091
- Publisher
- Rowfant Press
- Place of Publication
- Wichita, KS
- Date Published
- 2011
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- IMMIGRANT LIFE, IRISH IMMIGRANTS IN KANSAS, KANSAS IMMIGRANTS, Wichita Eagle, Catholic religion, farm life in Kansas, Immigration, Ireland, Potato Famine, Irish Immigration to America, Catholic prejudice, religious racism, growing up Catholic and Irish in
- Bookseller catalogs
- Kansas Related; Autobiography;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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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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