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Suomesta Sointulaan: Siirtolaiselämän Kuvauksia [From Finland to Sointula: Descriptions of Migrant Life]
by [UTOPIAN COMMUNITIES] SAVELA, Evert
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- first
- Condition
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Superior, WI: Työmies Society, n.d. (ca 1940s). First Edition. Octavo (21cm); light blue card wrappers, printed in red and navy blue; [4],5-143,[1]pp; text is entirely in Finnish. Gentle sunning and light wear to spine and extremities, with some dust-soil to lower front wrapper; contents clean; Very Good+.
Uncommon novel (in Finnish) set in the Kalevan Kansa Colony, a short-lived socialist utopia founded in 1901 on the island of Sointula, off the coast of British Columbia. Text entirely in Finnish. OCLC notes 12 holdings, of these, only 8 in the U.S.
Uncommon novel (in Finnish) set in the Kalevan Kansa Colony, a short-lived socialist utopia founded in 1901 on the island of Sointula, off the coast of British Columbia. Text entirely in Finnish. OCLC notes 12 holdings, of these, only 8 in the U.S.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46534
- Title
- Suomesta Sointulaan: Siirtolaiselämän Kuvauksia [From Finland to Sointula: Descriptions of Migrant Life]
- Author
- [UTOPIAN COMMUNITIES] SAVELA, Evert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Työmies Society
- Place of Publication
- Superior, WI
- Date Published
- n.d. (ca 1940s)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social Fiction; Utopian Thought; Canada; Utopian Literature;
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Winchester, Virginia
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- Good+
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- First Edition
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