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DROWNED VALLEY : THE PISCATAQUA RIVER BASIN
by Adams, John T
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0874511232
- ISBN 13
- 9780874511239
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1976. FIRST EDITION. 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches: pp. xx, 274. White pictorial paper dust jacket with black type. Brown cloth with black type. 170 black and white illustrations. Map verso Foreword page. With acknowledgments & credits and index.
SIGNED BY AUTHOR to half-title page. Dust jacket in Brodart wraps. Jacket has some foxing, light staining, and edges have a few creases with closed tears. Boards have sharp corners. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Light foxing on head and fore edge. Foot has a couple of light stains.Text is clean, bright,unmarked. Binding crisp, tight. With a foreword by Charles E. Clark. "Here is documented, if one chooses to view it that way, the shift in one corner of New England from handicraft to mass production, from wind and water and animal power to steam and petroleum and electricity, from a local culture determined by the locality to a national culture imposed upon the locality . . . "(front flap).
SIGNED BY AUTHOR to half-title page. Dust jacket in Brodart wraps. Jacket has some foxing, light staining, and edges have a few creases with closed tears. Boards have sharp corners. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Light foxing on head and fore edge. Foot has a couple of light stains.Text is clean, bright,unmarked. Binding crisp, tight. With a foreword by Charles E. Clark. "Here is documented, if one chooses to view it that way, the shift in one corner of New England from handicraft to mass production, from wind and water and animal power to steam and petroleum and electricity, from a local culture determined by the locality to a national culture imposed upon the locality . . . "(front flap).
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- Bookseller
- Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 104
- Title
- DROWNED VALLEY : THE PISCATAQUA RIVER BASIN
- Author
- Adams, John T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0874511232
- ISBN 13
- 9780874511239
- Publisher
- University Press of New England
- Place of Publication
- Hanover, NH
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- American manufacturing in 19th-century New England, Maine Harbors, New Hampshire Harbors. Portsmouth, New Hampshire ,American History
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