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Rugby Tennessee, Being Some Account of the Settlement Founded on the Cumberland Plateau By the Board of Aid to Land Ownership, Limited
by Hughes, Thomas
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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High Point, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Rugby, Tennessee: Rugbeian Press / Big Sink Books, 1973. Facsimile Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Facsimile Reprint. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Cloth over boards is lightly edge rubbed. DJ tanned with overall light shelf wear. Number 793 of the 1973 1000-copy Facsimile Edition of the original 1881 edition published in London by Macmillan. ; Thomas Hughes was the author of Tom Brown's School Days. An Englishman, he founded Rugby, Tennessee in the virgin wilderness of the upper eastern portion of the State, "a colony that was to be a unique experiment in Christian Socialism."; 7.75" tall ; 168 pages.
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- Bookseller
- Cat's Cradle Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3890011
- Title
- Rugby Tennessee, Being Some Account of the Settlement Founded on the Cumberland Plateau By the Board of Aid to Land Ownership, Limited
- Author
- Hughes, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Facsimile Reprint
- Publisher
- Rugbeian Press / Big Sink Books
- Place of Publication
- Rugby, Tennessee
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- LOCAL, HISTORY, TENNESSEE, UTOPIAN, EXPERIMENT, EXPERIMENTAL, COMMUNITIES, COLONIES, SETTLEMENTS
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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High Point, North Carolina
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelf Wear
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