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Born Barefooted
by B. Smith Haworth (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Lawrence, KS: Allen Press, 1969 Allen Press, Lawrence, KS. 1969. Hardcover. First Edition. Signed by the author on the FFFP. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O bookplate on the FFFP. Book Condition: Very Good; tape residue on the boards from taped on mylar jacket; tape stain on endpapers; bumping to tail. DJ: Near Fine; sunning to spine. Yellow cloth boards and spine with brown lettering on the spine and front board. 153 pp 8vo. The author is a learned college-educated man who was born in 1893 and grew up in primitive Ozark country where being born barefooted was the norm. His greatest miracle was surviving childhood and the second was actually getting an education in south-central Kansas. A great story of the hardships, spirit, and fortitude it took to succeed in the early teens. A clean very presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009426
- Title
- Born Barefooted
- Author
- B. Smith Haworth (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Allen Press
- Place of Publication
- Lawrence, KS
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Winfield Kansas, Ozark Mountains, hillbilly life, one-room education, hill country, Civil War, hill country, education, poverty, Ottawa University, Spanish Flu, influenza epidemic of 1918
- Bookseller catalogs
- Kansas Related; Autobiography;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- The heel of the spine.
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