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10167 . Browning, Meshach. Forty-Four Years of the Life of a Hunter: Being Reminiscences of Meshach Browning, a Maryland Hunter, Roughly Written Down by Himself .
Winston-Salem: Winston Printing Company, (1942). Octavo, Full cloth , black and white photographs, plates , xxiii, [8], 13-400 pages. Condition: Good. Exciting account of pioneer life in western Maryland and the Allegany Mountains in the first half of the 19th century. Browning killed nearly 400 bears and once killed 22 deer in one week. Lively and anecdotal in style. Revised and illustrated with nice drawings by Edward Stabler. This edition includes a 23 page Preface by Browning's great grandson, R. Getty Browning, with photographs of several of the places described in the book. See HAND #B612. Bound in maroon cloth over boards with spine titled in gilt that has darkened. Exterior is a bit rough, with rubs and minor fraying to extremities, a 4 cm split to cloth along lower joint, and some spots and mild stains. Prior owner name and address penned on front pastedown. Slightly shaken. Interior very good.
Book #10167
$75.00 order or inquire Maryland Maryland Hunters Western Maryland Allegany County Washington County Allegany Mountains Rattle Snakes Bears Deer Hunting
9320 . Cunz, Dieter. The Maryland Germans: A History .
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1948; First printing. Octavo, Full cloth , black & white plates , xii, 476 pages. Condition: Fine in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Jacket in Mylar protector. First comprehensive history of Maryland's German immigrants, which included the pious Amish, 19th century agnostics, radical city laborers, wealthy Bremen merchants, the conservative Western Maryland farmers, and poor steerage-class immigrants. Good bibliography. Bound in teal-green cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt, tan endpapers. Attractive prior owner bookplate on front pastedown. Jacket has a touch of sun-fading to spine, a couple of short, cleanly closed edge tears, some light surface soil, and a few slight edge rubs.
Book #9320
$35.00 order or inquire Maryland Germany Immigration Western Maryland Baltimore Amish merchant class Settlements assimilation
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.
Book #2939
$9.00 order or inquire MARYLAND Allegany County Western Maryland Rural Towns Local government Laws Legal Counties
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.
Book #9670
$25.00 order or inquire Maryland Hagerstown Colleges School History St. James School headmasters Western Maryland Education Memoirs
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.
Book #8658
$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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