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The Carrington Diary ( 1797 - 1810 )
by W. Branch-Johnson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG-
- Seller
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Bluffton, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Archer House, 1963. First American edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG-. 1st American edition (first published in Britain in 1956); foreword by the Marquess of Salisbury. 8vo, light blue boards, 184 pages, 8 b/w plates, biographical index to diary entries. Condition: VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD- jacket: book has little wear, an owner label on fep; jacket has small chips and tears to top edge, sunning to front panel, a sunned spine with a few faint spots, a 1" closed tear at spine gutter and another large closed tear on rear panel that has been taped, in protective mylar. The diary of John Carrington, a working farmer in the early 19th century, of Bacon's Farm in the village of Bramfield. Carrington was also the Overseer of the Poor and Surveyor of Highways, Tax Assessor and Collector for Bramfield and Chief Constable of a number of parishes - he wrote his diary entries on any scraps of paper at hand - I wonder he had time left for farming.
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- Bookseller
- Bygone Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17869
- Title
- The Carrington Diary ( 1797 - 1810 )
- Author
- W. Branch-Johnson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- VG-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Archer House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- GREAT BRITAIN, HISTORY, DIARIES, BIOGRAPHY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Great Britain; Biography / Autobiography;
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Bygone Books
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Bluffton, South Carolina
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- Spine
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- Poor
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- VG+/VG-
- A book in slightly better than Very Good Condition with a dust jacket that is in slightly less than Very Good Condition. Very...
- Jacket
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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