Land of High Horizons [SIGNED COPY]
by Bowman, Elizabeth Skaggs
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Traverse City, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Kingsport, TN: Southern Publishers, Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by the author on the half title page. The author takes the reader on a tour of the Smokies, and recounts the traces the history, the people, the legends, the geology and wild life of the mountains. In addtion she recounts the efforts at preserving and creating the Smoky Mountain National Park. Illustrated with end paper maps and b&w photos throughout including a frontis photograph of "Old Smoky." Original wheat color covers with black and gilt spine and cover lettering. This is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings, no previous owner names and no bookplates. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall; 212 pages; Signed by Author .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peninsula Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20521
- Title
- Land of High Horizons [SIGNED COPY]
- Author
- Bowman, Elizabeth Skaggs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Southern Publishers, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Kingsport, TN
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- Appalachia, Tennessee, Smoky Mountains
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About the Seller
Peninsula Books
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Traverse City, Michigan
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