[Rarebooks] fs: Best-Dressed Miners

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For your consideration:
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(No. 7841 )  Harvey, Katherine A.. THE BEST-DRESSED MINERS: LIFE AND LABOR
IN THE MARYLAND COAL REGION, 1835-1910.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1969). First printing, Full cloth,
Octavo, xiv, 488 pages, Black & white prints, tables, fold-out map. Fine in
a fine dust jacket, Jacket in Mylar protector.
      Focuses on the workers in the small coal-mining regions of western
Maryland to paint a richly detailed and carefully researched American labor
and social history. Based on contemporary newspapers, official documents,
company reports, and manuscript collections. Includes numerous tables, five
appendices, notes section, and a good bibliography. Bound in grey cloth over
boards with black-stamped spine titles. A few faint specks of foxing to
endpapers, top edge of textblock slightly dusty. Jacket has a few tiny edge
rubs and touch of faint soil to rear panel.    $100.00
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