ADVENTURES OF CAPTIVITY.
by Chorpenning, Frank P
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good overall in illustrated boards with green cloth spine (edgewear, peeled spot to the front cover, and discoloration on a few
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Columbus, Ohio:: Lutheran Book Concern, , n.d. [ca 1920.]. Hardcover first edition -. Good overall in illustrated boards with green cloth spine (edgewear, peeled spot to the front cover, and discoloration on a few pages.) Uncommon. . First edition. Children's story set on the Pennsylvania frontier in 1755, during the French and Indian War. It begins "From Switzerland the courageous Le Roy family staunchly came to the wilderness on the West Branch of Susquehanna River and here they settled in a clearing - in Limestone Township Union County - but little concerned that this same clearing had been vacated on account of Indians." 64 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47602
- Title
- ADVENTURES OF CAPTIVITY.
- Author
- Chorpenning, Frank P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Good overall in illustrated boards with green cloth spine (edgewear, peeled spot to the front cover, and discoloration on a few
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lutheran Book Concern,
- Place of Publication
- Columbus, Ohio:
- Date Published
- n.d. [ca 1920.]
- Keywords
- delaware indians, religious story, christian fiction, historical fiction, pennsylvania,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's and Illustrated;
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