Chambersburg : Frontier Town 1730 - 1794
by Havens, Paul Swain
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chambersburg, PA: The Craft Press, 1975. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bicentennial narrative of the origin and growth of Chambersburg and Franklin County in Pennsylvania. The book begins with a young man of 21 who arrived in the Cumberland Valley...and with the earliest settlement of 1730. Blue cloth boards, white pictorial jacket, 255 pp., several B&W images and a color frontispiece - a rendering of the Chambers Fort. Condition: Very Good; no text marks; crease at top right free end paper; slightly bumped spine ends. Dust Jacket Condition : Good; wear to edges; chipping at top right front from previous sticker..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Adamstown Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 222669
- Title
- Chambersburg : Frontier Town 1730 - 1794
- Author
- Havens, Paul Swain
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Craft Press
- Place of Publication
- Chambersburg, PA
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Chambersburg Pennsylvania
- Bookseller catalogs
- Pennsylvania History; History / United States / Colonial America;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Adamstown Books
Biblio member since 2015
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About Adamstown Books
Adamstown Books is an online antiquarian and used book dealer in Lancaster PA. Our presence began in Adamstown, aka America's Antiques Capital. The Adamstown tradition is boosted by our proximity to the emerging antiques presence in Columbia PA, and the rich religious and cultural history of Lancaster County and Pennsylvania. With Gettysburg a 1 1/2 hour drive away, the American Civil War is naturally one of our key categories.
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