Faded Dreams: More Kansas Ghost Towns
by Daniel Fitzgerald
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0700606688
- ISBN 13
- 9780700606689
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1994 University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 1994. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light bumping to tips; light rubbing to wraps. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 318 pp 8vo. This book is the fifth volume in the author's writings on ghost towns of Kansas. The Historical Society books list over 6,000 communities that never got past the planning stage to those that no longer exist. The author goes into the reasons why communities vanished in Kansas and goes on to list county by county some of the more historically colorful towns that are but a memory in Kansas. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015588
- Title
- Faded Dreams: More Kansas Ghost Towns
- Author
- Daniel Fitzgerald
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0700606688
- ISBN 13
- 9780700606689
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Place of Publication
- Lawrence, KS
- Date Published
- 1994
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- Kansas history, Kansas ghost towns, Kansas county histories, Kansas historical society, abandoned towns in Kansas, failed towns in Kansas, Dust Bowl, Depression, farm prices, crop failures,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Kansas Related; Americana;
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- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.