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9637 . Everett, Lloyd T. For Maryland's Honor: A Story of the War for Southern Independence .
Salisbury: Arcadia Enterprises, Inc., (2001); Reprint. Octavo, Full cloth , two black & white illustrations , 230 pages. Condition: Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket. Jacket in Mylar protector. Classic historical novel which captures the sentiments held by many in Maryland on the eve and early years of the Civil War. Everett attempts to show, through his characters and story, just what it was that animated those Marylanders who went south to fight for the Confederate Army. This is a rather poignant vehicle for Maryland's version of the Lost Cause legend. Facsimile reprint of the original 1922 edition with the addition of a black and white photograph of the 1st Maryland Infantry Regimental Colors (the "Bucktail Flag"). Bound in black cloth over boards with spine and upper board titled in gilt.
$35.00 order or inquire Maryland US Civil War Confederacy Confederates battle of Antietam Bucktail Flag Baltimore riots Sharpsburg Frederick, MD
2939 . Flack, Horace E. (Editor). Public Local Laws of Allegany County (Reprint from Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland) .
(Baltimore): Privately Printed, 1930. Quarto, Full cloth , [iv], 348 pgs.. Condition: Very good.
Interesting snapshot of the important public issues in this county in 1930 as seen through the laws enacted to address them. Here are the laws governing billiards, coroners, hucksters, flags over school buildings, fences, insane asylums, railways, and much more. Brown cloth over boards. Red spine label with gilt stamped lettering is almost completely gone, otherwise only slight extremity rubs. Clean and solid copy. No prior ownership marks.
$9.00 order or inquire MARYLAND Allegany County Western Maryland Rural Towns Local government Laws Legal Counties
6363 . Jones, James Gay. Haunted Valley and More Folk Tales .
Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 1979; First printing. Octavo, Wrappers , vi, 156 pages. Condition: Very Good.
SIGNED by Jones on title page. Collection of ghost and folk stories of southern Appalachia. White covers with black lettering and illustration on front. Some faint foxing toward edges.
$11.00 order or inquire West Virginia Ghosts Hauntings Supernatural Folklore Appalachian Monongahela Valley Allegheny Western Maryland
6983 . [Meyers, Mary, et al.]. Lonaconing: Home in the Hills .
(S.l.): (s.n.), [1987?]. Quarto, Wrappers , black & white photographs, illus. , [vi], 202 pages. Condition: Very Good. Excellent history of this coal and iron town in western Maryland's Allegany County. Chapters written by numerous local historians to cover many interesting events, entities, and anecdotes in the town's 150 year history. Some highlights include the famous Laconing Iron Furnace, the Laconing Silk Mill, roster of the Second Maryland Potomac Home Brigade in the Civil War, Laconing fire departments, churches, schools, and much more. Illustrated paper covers with some minor edge wear. Clean and sound.
$50.00 order or inquire Maryland Lonaconing Allegany County Western Maryland Coal Mining iron furnace Cumberland Local Histories Town Histories
9670 . Onderdonk, Adrian Holmes. Memoirs of Adrian Holmes Onderdonk Born July 18, 1877, Died January 12, 1956 .
(S.l.): (s.n.), [1974]; First printing. Octavo, Wrappers , 53 pages. Condition: Very good. Onderdonk was born at St. James School in Hagerstown, Maryland where his father was Headmaster. Adrian became Headmaster in 1903 and continued until 1939, after which he was Head of the Latin Department until his retirement in 1947. Many interesting anecdotes. Bound in pictorial paper covers over a saddle-stapled binding. Covers have a few minor stains, small brown stain to fore edge of textblock.
$25.00 order or inquire Maryland Hagerstown Colleges School History St. James School headmasters Western Maryland Education Memoirs
9200 . Scharf, J[ohn]. Thomas (1843-1898). History of Western Maryland. Being a History of Frederick, Montgomery, Carroll, Washington, Allegany, and Garrett Counties from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Including Biographical Sketches of their Representative Men (in 2 volumes) .
Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1882; First printing. Quartos, Quarter leather , black & white engraved cuts, plates, maps , 788 & iv, 789-1560 pages. Condition: Good. Detailed and well illustrated history of the region. A rich genealogical resource with information on everything from the original plat of Hagerstown to soldiers' rolls to secret societies and religious denominations. Scharf served in the Confederate army and navy during the Civil War, but does his best to present this history without "sectional bias." Bound in dark brown cloth over bevelled boards with leather spines, upper boards stamped in gilt, lower boards in blind, all edges gilt. The exteriors show general wear and rubbing, with cloth frayed along fore edges and chips to leather at spine ends. Volume I has a 2 cm split to upper joint at head of spine and a 2 cm flap of leather laid back down along lower joint. Volume II has a 4.5 cm arcing tear to leather at head of spine, and the top of the upper joint has a 12 cm split. The gilt edges are spotted but the reinforced hinges remain sound. Some mild foxing to preliminary leaves but otherwise the interior text is generally clean and bright.
$275.00 order or inquire Maryland Hagerstown Frederick Antietam Whiskey Rebellion Allegany County Garrett County Genealogy Soldiers
8658 . Townsend, George Alfred "Gath" (1841-1914). Katy of Catoctin or, The Chain-Breakers: A National Romance .
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887. Octavo, Original cloth , 567 pages. Condition: Very Good. Semi-historical novel of the Civil War in Western Maryland and the conspiracy of John Wilkes Booth. Opens with John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry and closes with the death of Booth. Townsend was a journalist who knew John Wilkes Booth and reported on the assassination of Lincoln. Bound in dark green cloth over boards with gilt and black stamped spine and upper board, brown endpapers. Contemporary owner name on front free endpaper. Rubs and wear to extremities includes a fraying to cloth across heel of spine and adjoining areas of bottom edges of boards, shallow bumps to fore corners, a 3/4" split to cloth at top edge of upper joint, and some chipping along fore edge of rear free endpaper. Lower board has mottling to sizing along a 3/4" strip down fore edge. Leaf 553/554 has a closed 1" tear at bottom edge near gutter. Scattered brown stains to a few leaves.
$45.00 order or inquire Maryland Abraham Lincoln John Wilkes Booth John Brown Harper'S Ferry Historical Fiction frederick Western Maryland hagerstown
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