Skippack School: Being the Story of Eli Shrawder and of one Christopher Dock, Schoolmaster about the year 1750
by de Angeli, Marguerite
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Early printing, brick red cloth, 4to, unnumbered pages, occasional full page color illustrations, black and white in-text illustrations throughout, pictorial endpapers; brief gift inscription on dedication page; dust jacket edge worn with chipping at extremities, light toning around edges and heavily toned spine, now in protective mylar cover. A story about school-master and humanist Christopher Dock at the Mennonite School near Skippack, Pennsylvania during the 1700s.
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- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001384
- Title
- Skippack School: Being the Story of Eli Shrawder and of one Christopher Dock, Schoolmaster about the year 1750
- Author
- de Angeli, Marguerite
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- CHILDRENS LITERATURE HUMANIST MENNONITE SCHOOL SKIPJACK SCHOOL PENNSYLVANIA CHILDRENS LITERATURE PICTURE BOOK
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