How They Lived in Hampton: A Study of Practical Christianity Applied in the Manufacture of Woollens.
by Edward Everett Hale
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Milton, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Boston: J. Stilman Smith and Co, 1888. Assumed First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original deep olive green (almost brown) cloth, bright gilt lettering to spine, generally light wear. Tighly bound copy, unmarked; some age spotting with very light age-toned paper. 281 pages. A book that has been called a "Clerical-Utopian Novel". Fiction based on the author's inspections of woolen mills. The story of a co-operative profit sharing venture in the wollen mills of Hampton.
Scans of book can be made; inquires welcome
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- Bookseller
- North Country Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006751
- Title
- How They Lived in Hampton: A Study of Practical Christianity Applied in the Manufacture of Woollens.
- Author
- Edward Everett Hale
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Assumed First Edition
- Publisher
- J. Stilman Smith and Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1888
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North Country Books
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Milton, Vermont
About North Country Books
General used, collectible and antiquarian books. Also paper, ephemera and posters. I am now in my 14th year of full-time book selling.
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