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Stories of Old New Hampshire (1623 - 1850)
by Doris Delaware Piper; Kenneth L Sherman, Supt. of Schools, Laconia N.H., (1963 Foreword by)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good-
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Solid binding. Contents: Illustrations, 20 w/ title and page number; short Foreword noting author is 4th grade teacher in Laconia NH school system, in which there had been a shortage in NH State history material for young readers, thus had been tested in Laconia, with vocabulary controlled for 4th grade pupils' abilities, and keeping to the short story format, and with chapters in five parts after its Introduction, inclusive of 42 chapters plus a Glossary and Bibliography. Did you know the first sighting of land in 1623 was named Pannaway? Later it became Rye after a more permanent settlement took root in Dover, upriver from the coast. Chapters describe commercial ventures, sending shiploads back to England, and returning with more settlers with some moving inland, Algonquin native tales, individual residents, lots of work, and growing villages with passing years. Book wear: Darkened back cover, old damp-stain, early section of Contents Illustrations outlined in ink pen by hand; else clean. A rare offering. Family names include Thomson, Wiggins, Dustin, Little Elk, plus other historic colonists.
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- Bookseller
- Hedgehog's Whimsey Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- HW021piperNH
- Title
- Stories of Old New Hampshire (1623 - 1850)
- Author
- Doris Delaware Piper; Kenneth L Sherman, Supt. of Schools, Laconia N.H., (1963 Foreword by)
- Illustrator
- R. Alden Burt.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in light green-blue w/ line art cover: youth waving from ship's rigging. Green titles.
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Presumed 1st; LOCC Number 63-22139; Foreword September 1963.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Equity Publishing Corporation.
- Place of Publication
- Orford, New Hampshire.
- Date Published
- 1963
- Pages
- 175
- Size
- 23 cm.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Colonists' work; Commerce for England; Dover NH; Algonquin legends; Settlement growth;
- Bookseller catalogs
- New Hampshire;
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