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Good+ with no dust jacket. Owner impressed stamp on half-title page. Cover has minor edge wear. Paper covering internal hinges splitting but pages tight.; Small 4to 9"-11" tall; 326 pages.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Book Very good; dust jacket small tears, good. 8 vo. 326 pp. Index, b/w photo plates, map end papers, gray cloth. Copyrighted by author 1929.
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Very good+ in very good jacket. Red stamped blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, illustrated in b&w. Book has mild rubbing and edgewear to boards and spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but toned throughout. DJ has edgewear that includes small tears and chips to spine ends and corners, rubbing and toning.
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Very Good in Unclipped jacket. No edition statement (copyright statement only) but pages have been opened with letter opener or knife; 326 p., clean and unmarked except for elegant stamp of former owner; many ill., reproductions of art and period photos; map end pages; binding firm; blue boards with red boards very well protected by pictorial d.j., itself having suffered some wounds for its pains--open tear at crown of spine panel and chipping elsewhere--even Brodart cover has some creasing at upper corner of front panel. This volume needs an appreciative home.
This book is emblematic of what passed for domestic "travelogue" in the 1920's-'30's, that is lush descriptions of a place in the context of history, from the earliest times of European settlement (Jamestown, in this case) through the then present; intelligently presented and dense with information. "Indians" are not ignored, just not dwelt upon a lot or for very long. Paul Wilstach can write and his writing makes days gone by in Tidewater Virginia feel real enough to touch. You meet the early colonists and their descendants, the planters, and the great families of the Old Dominion. Willstach transitions his various epochs with skill but oft accompanied with a bit of sentimentality, an ingredient still prevalent in the writings of the time. This not the first edition but one that followed it close on. It has a playful DJ that I immediately recognized in style as being similar to Willstach's book on the Hudson River Valley. He wrote about other places and their times than these, but as a Virginian transplanted from New York, these are the two by this talented author that I am most likely to read and remember.
