EARLY REMINISCENCES OF PIONEER LIFE IN KANSAS
by SHAW, REV. JAMES
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Minor Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Atchison, Kansas: Haskell Printing Company, 1886. Slight extremity wear. Spine gilt is bright. Ink inscription on front free endpaper. Portrait frontispiece. Clean throughout. Contains 15 chapters on a variety of subjects, mainly about ministerial conferences in Kansas and Nebraska. According to Dary, there are insights into life in early Kansas. A good picture of the development of the Methodist Church in pioneer Kansas. The proceeds of the book were to go to needy ministers. See Kanzana 231, Howes S341, Rader 2915. 238pp.. First Edition. Brown Embossed Cloth. Minor Wear/No Jacket. Duodecimo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011543
- Title
- EARLY REMINISCENCES OF PIONEER LIFE IN KANSAS
- Author
- SHAW, REV. JAMES
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Minor Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Haskell Printing Company
- Place of Publication
- Atchison, Kansas
- Date Published
- 1886
- Size
- Duodecimo
- Keywords
- Kansas, Kansas History , Religion, Methodist Church
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Gilt
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