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Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History
by Brox, Jane
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0807021067
- ISBN 13
- 9780807021064
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition, First Printing.. Very clean book and dust jacket, first edition, first printing, SIGNED by the author. Clean unfaded rust boards with black cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean map-illustrated endpapers. Inscribed and signed on title page by the author: To Ann Van Arsdale, with best wishes - Jane Brox - 5/99 Nantucket." 182 pages + "Acknowledgements." Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Amid the turmoil after her father's death--family decision to be made, the future oftheir farm to be settled--Jane Brox, using her acclaimed "compassion, honesty, and restraint" (The Boston Globe)soon leads her to the fascinating and quintesentially American history of New England's Merrimack valley, its farmers, and the immigrant workers caught up in the industrial textile age..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30484
- Title
- Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History
- Author
- Brox, Jane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0807021067
- ISBN 13
- 9780807021064
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- NEW ENGLAND, MERRIMACK VALLEY, HISTORY, AMERICANA, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, JANE BROX
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; New England;
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