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Daylight in the Swamp
by Wells, Robert W
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 038512418X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385124188
- Seller
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DeLand, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good.
The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 8.5 inches tall; 240 pages. The price-clipped dust jacket has even modest age-toning and now protected with a clear Mylar sleeve.. Wells has combed the great north woods of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota for these 19th-century histories of indomitable Bunyanesque shantyboys (their name before the 1870s) against whiskey, Indians, forest fires, ladies-for-hire, evangelists, and lumber barons.
Between descriptions of the fetid bunkhouses, monotonous diets, and heroic brawls, he's managed some rare glimpses of the rough-hewn beginnings of Escanaba, Mich., LaPorte, Minn., Chippewa Falls, Wis., and other timber towns in the Great Lakes states.
The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 8.5 inches tall; 240 pages. The price-clipped dust jacket has even modest age-toning and now protected with a clear Mylar sleeve.. Wells has combed the great north woods of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota for these 19th-century histories of indomitable Bunyanesque shantyboys (their name before the 1870s) against whiskey, Indians, forest fires, ladies-for-hire, evangelists, and lumber barons.
Between descriptions of the fetid bunkhouses, monotonous diets, and heroic brawls, he's managed some rare glimpses of the rough-hewn beginnings of Escanaba, Mich., LaPorte, Minn., Chippewa Falls, Wis., and other timber towns in the Great Lakes states.
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- Bookseller
- Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA]
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16905
- Title
- Daylight in the Swamp
- Author
- Wells, Robert W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 038512418X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385124188
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
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