Dreaming on the Conestoga A Collection of Sonnets Written on the Stream of My Childhood and The Poems of Idle Hours in a Busy Man's Life
by B. W. F. Urban
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Lancaster, PA: Published by the Author, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Colorful fractur bookplate on the inside of the front cover "Diefes Buch gehoret mir William J Hartman". This edition is limited to six hundred copies. Gilt lettering and front cover river & bridge decoration on green cloth covered boards. Top edge gilt. 8vo, 312pp.
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- 018484
- Title
- Dreaming on the Conestoga A Collection of Sonnets Written on the Stream of My Childhood and The Poems of Idle Hours in a Busy Man's Life
- Author
- B. W. F. Urban
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Published by the Author
- Place of Publication
- Lancaster, PA
- Date Published
- 1911
- Keywords
- poetry; sonnets; Lancaster County, PA; Fractur bookplate; Conestoga River
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