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   From: jrsinc@allstream.net   
      
   "Ghost Towns: How they Were Born..." 1st Edition Hardcover Book   
      
   I have for sale the out-of-print, 1st edition hardcover book "Ghost Towns:   
   How they Were Born, How They Lived, and How They Died" by Tom Robotham   
   (1993). The book contains 128 pages of text as well as vintage black and   
   white photographs profiling the legends of Ghost Towns.   
   Front Jacket Excerpt:   
   "Ghost towns speak powerfully to the American imagination. These eerily   
   preserved relics of once-thriving western communities tell us something   
   fundamental about our nation's past-and about ourselves. They were never   
   quite like other towns. Even in their gaudy haydays, ghost towns were   
   slightly illusory. Their extravagant hotels, restaurants and saloons,   
   banks, newspaper offices, churches, and livery stables masked a fugitive   
   reality. Deep down, every resident knew that such a town might someday be   
   abandoned-voluntarily. These boom towns were created by a society so   
   distracted by the prospect of quick riches and so overwhelmed by the sheer   
   availabilty of building space that it could afford to throw the towns away."   
   The out-of-print hardcover edition is in excellent condition.   
   Price $15. US plus postage   
      
   Please include your "postal mailing address" so I can calculate postage   
   costs to your destination. Thank you   
      
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