The Story of Kansas
by Bliss Isely, W. M. Richards
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Topeka, KS: Kansas State Printer/Ferd Voiland, 1953 Kansas State Printer/Ferd Voiland, Topeka, KS. 1953. Hardcover. Edition not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; coffee stain spots on text block top and fore edge. No DJ. Coral cloth boards and spine with brown lettering on spine; shadowbox title on front with historical pictures in red. 216 pp 4vo. Intended as a school textbook, this book is an original production for teaching Kansas history. It is based on original letters, journals, and documents of those who actually took part in the making of Kansas history and on information obtained at first by personal interview with Indians, scouts, Santa Fe traders, free-state partisans, border ruffians, Quantrill's raiders, buffalo hunters, and hundreds of others who were eye-witnesses to the events described in the book. It takes Kansas history up to the point of the beginning of the Korean War.Kansas Constitution and reference materials in rear. A clean very presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008726
- Title
- The Story of Kansas
- Author
- Bliss Isely, W. M. Richards
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Kansas State Printer/Ferd Voiland
- Place of Publication
- Topeka, KS
- Date Published
- 1953
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Kansas history, Indian tribes, cow towns, Civil War, Quantrill's Raiders, farmers, wheat farming, Kansas-Nebraska Act, high school textbooks, Kansas Territory, Lawrence Kansas, oil industry, World War II, Korean War, aircraft industry, KU Basketball
- Bookseller catalogs
- Kansas Related; Civil War;
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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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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....