Out Here on Soap Creek; An Autobiography
by Faber, Inez McAlister
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +/Good +
- Seller
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Benson, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Ames, IA: The Iowa State University Press, 1982. First Printing . Cloth. Good +/Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 180 pp. Green cloth. Illus. with B&W photos. In 1927, Inez Faber began writing under the pen name Elizabeth Beresford. A few years later she dropped the pen name but continued to write, and for the next 25 years she wrote "A Farm Woman Speaks Up" for the Des Moines Register and Tribune and "Out Here on Soap Creek" for the Centerville Iowegian. This book gathers together some of her columns, sprinkles them with a narrative account of her life in rural Iowa, and treats the reader to rich memories of the rural Midwest. Small address label on front endpaper. Binding tight, text clean. The jacket has a few small nicks and tears at the edges and is slightly sun-faded on the spine and front..
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- Bookseller
- Paperback Recycler (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46173
- Title
- Out Here on Soap Creek; An Autobiography
- Author
- Faber, Inez McAlister
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Iowa State University Press
- Place of Publication
- Ames, IA
- Date Published
- 1982
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Iowa Biography Farm Life Newspaper Columns Memoir Midwest American
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