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Miracle in the Mountains
de Harnett T. Kane, Inez Henry
- Usado
- good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good/Good
- Librería
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Precio
EUR 11.27EUR 7.89
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Sobre este artículo
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1956 Doubleday and Company, Garden City, NY. 1956. Hardcover. Edition/Printing not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name on the half title page dated Jan.1957. Book Condition: Good +; light shelfwear; light bumping to top of front board; two small tears in fabric at top; one small puncture to fabric near top edge of front board. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($3.95); missing piece at top of spine; wear to tail; small puncture near top of DJ above title. Khaki cloth boards and spine with orange and red lettering on the spine and front board. Pictorial endpapers. Clean internals; internal hinges are sound and not split. 320 pp 8vo. This is the story of Martha Berry who was born into wealth in the post-Civil War South who refused to forget the poor Americans living in the southern mountains of Georgia. From a chance encounter with a poor family became Martha Berry's log-cabin school and later into Berry Schools in Rome GA where her vision of a residential school for young men and women with limited educational opportunities would help break the cycle of poverty that pervaded the rural South in the early 20th century. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 013541
- Título
- Miracle in the Mountains
- Autor
- Harnett T. Kane, Inez Henry
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Doubleday and Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Garden City, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1956
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- education, Martha Berry, log cabin schools, Berry Schools, rural south, Rome Georgia, Berry College, poverty, Southern Poverty, residential schools, religion, The Bible,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Biographies;
Términos de venta
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
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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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
