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Altona: D.W. Friesen, 1982. Hard bound, first edition, aerial maps in colour at endpapers, illustrated throughout in black and white, xi + Pp373. Includes bibliography, glossary, and index. Tight and unmarked - a very good or better copy in like dust jacket. From the blurb on the inside front flap of the jacket: ""This book tells the story of Altona, settled by a small group of pioneers on an original settlement on the prairies in the 1870's. The old Altona Village, which was settled in the 1880's. gradually evolved into a modern town. It is an absorbing story well told. The author has researched her book thoroughly from original as well as secondary sources and supplemented this with oral interviews. The book is well illustrated, and is complete with index, bibliography, glossary, tables, and figures. It is more than a chronological story. Against the background of history, the author has also sketched the struggle of the Mennonite pioneers to maintain their identity, and at the…
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Altona The story of a prairie town Hardcover - 1982
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- Title Altona The story of a prairie town
- Author Esther Epp-Tiessen
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 373
- Language ENG
- Publisher D.W. Friesen, Altona, Manitoba
- Date 1982
- ISBN 9780889254176
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Altona, MB: D.W. Friesen, 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; This book tells the story of Altona, settled by a small group of pioneers on an original settlement on the prairies in the 1870s. Bibiographic documentation, numerous tables, maps and illustrations increase the book's attractiveness for both the general reader and the scholar of Western Canadian history, religious studies, and Mennonite history.
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Altona, Manitoba, Canada: D.W. Friesen, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/very good +. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Richly illustrated with maps, photographs, charts and tables. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 373 pp.
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Altona: D.W. Friesen [0-88925-417-6] [1982], 1st printing. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 373pp. Photographs, bibliography, index. Previous owner's name. Locale: Altona--Manitoba; Manitoba; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (Manitoba, Local History--Manitoba).
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Altona: The Story of a Prairie Town
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Altona, Manitoba, Canada: D.W. Friesen & Sons Ltd., 1982. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. xi, 373. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine, pictorial endpapers. Richly illustrated with many dozens of black-and-white maps, photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. No detectable flaws, remains bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; fine and housed in fine, original, unclipped, dustjacket. Overall, near fine.
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