"The Pennsylvania Sampler", A Biography of the Keystone State and its people, by Paul B. Beers.  Copyright 1970, Stackpole Company, Harrisburg Pennsylvania.  They published the book.  Presumed but unstated First Edition.  NOT Ex-Library. ISBN 0-8117-1239-0.  Note - the photos you see are of this volume - no 'Stock Photos'.

A clean volume, Good condition in green/black-lettered hard boards, 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" x 256 clean thin tight pages of remarkable Pennsylvania history and peoples.

  • Pennsylvania Dutch and their words;
  • Harrisburg to Gettysburg and Ike;
  • Johnstown Floods;
  • Oil, Steel, The Molly Maguires, Depths of Coal Mines;
  • American Tragedies;
  • Pennsylvanians in Fiction and in Nonfiction;
  • Presidents and Future Presidents;
  • Hershey;
  • Jim Thorpe;
  • Much much more.

Tight and firm, a bit of lightening to the perimeters after a 1/2-Century and more.  No wearthrough, No looseness, No dogears, No mustiness, No smoke smell.  There is no dust jacket.  We do try to describe them correctly - we want you back - hundreds of repeat customers. 

From a northern Ohio farm home library - they've been accumulating books and other paper for 150 years.  Now we have eight pickup truckloads of that library for dispersal on eBay.  Wonderful things there.

No names, No other markings, No dogears, No Bookplates, NOT Ex-library.  NOT Remainder-marked.  Don't let this one get by you - this is a marvelous find.