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Torchlights to the Cherokees: The Brainerd Mission
by Walker, Robert Sparks
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +/good
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Johnson City: The Overmountain Press, 1993. Hardcover. Good +/good. Hardcover. 8" X 5 1/2". viii, 339pp. Mild wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, light chipping, and several small, open tears to covers, corners, and edges. Price sticker to rear cover of jacket. Bound in tan cloth over boards with spine and front cover lettered in black. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Along with stories of the Indians as a group, there are many stories of individual natives, including the illiterate but brilliant Sequoyah who invented an alphabet for the Cherokee. Walker also includes much about other missions and missionaries. Once nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Walker's work remains (as noted in the New York Times Book Review, February 7, 1932) "an interesting and valuable addition not only to the local history of Tennessee and Georgia, but also the history of the American Indian and his relations with white civilization and government."(Publisher).
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Along with stories of the Indians as a group, there are many stories of individual natives, including the illiterate but brilliant Sequoyah who invented an alphabet for the Cherokee. Walker also includes much about other missions and missionaries. Once nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Walker's work remains (as noted in the New York Times Book Review, February 7, 1932) "an interesting and valuable addition not only to the local history of Tennessee and Georgia, but also the history of the American Indian and his relations with white civilization and government."(Publisher).
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- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10568
- Title
- Torchlights to the Cherokees: The Brainerd Mission
- Author
- Walker, Robert Sparks
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Overmountain Press
- Place of Publication
- Johnson City
- Date Published
- 1993
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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