Kansas; Its Interior and Exterior Life Including A Full View of Its Settlement, Political History, Social Life, Climate, Soil, Productions, Scenery, Etc
by Sara T. L. Robinson
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- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Boston/Cincinnati: Crosby, Nichols and Company/George S. Blanchard, 1857 Crosby, Nichols and Company/George S. Blanchard, Boston/Cincinnati. 1857. Hardcover. Stated 8th Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked; internal hinges are intact and not split. Book Condition: Fair; missing sections of spine; wear-through on lower tips; split gutter on front; foxing and browning of pages. Frontis picture with tissue guard of burned Free State Hotel in Lawrence. No DJ. Brown cloth embossed boards with tarnished gilt lettering on spine. 366 pp 12mo. Written by the wife of the founder of Lawrence Kansas and the first governor of Kansas in 1861. The book covers the founding days of the State of Kansas as the battle raged over being a slave or a free state. She was an eyewitness to the violence in Bleeding Kansas the formation of the first government. A clean presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005681
- Title
- Kansas; Its Interior and Exterior Life Including A Full View of Its Settlement, Political History, Social Life, Climate, Soil, Productions, Scenery, Etc
- Author
- Sara T. L. Robinson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 5th or later Edition
- Publisher
- Crosby, Nichols and Company/George S. Blanchard
- Place of Publication
- Boston/Cincinnati
- Date Published
- 1857
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- Kansas, State of Kansas, Kansas Statehood, Sack of Lawrence, Bleeding Kansas, Leacompton government, John Brown, Pottawatomie Massacre, Wakarusa War, slavery, pro-slavery, free state, Wyandotte constitution, Free-State Party
- Bookseller catalogs
- Kansas Related; Civil War; Americana;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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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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- Gutter
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- Spine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Cloth
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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