Train Whistles and Hunting Horns: The History of the Plains, Virginia. Signed copy.
by [Fauquier County, Virginia]. EVANS, D'Anne with John K. Gott
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
[Warrenton, Virginia]: Piedmont Press, (1993). First edition, this copy inscribed & signed in ink by Evans & Gott at the title page. 4to (11.25" x 9"), v, 107 & [1] pages, with folding map laid in & illustrations from photographs & art work throughout. Publisher's gilt-lettered tan cloth in pictorial dust jacket featuring art by Catherine Stettinlus Zimmerman.
Covers slightly splayed, minor foxing at upper cover, pastedowns, & early leaves, otherwise very good in rubbed & wrinkled dust jacket, foxed mostly on the verso, with a bit of edge wear & brief archival tissue reinforcement (verso only), still good or better.
"Shaped by this country's rough and tumble early frontier history and forged by the raw will of a few people who lead it out of Indian times, The Plains has weathered the storms of the Civil War and reconstruction, the Great Depression, fire and the crash of its economy, emerging from every turn as a hometown to declare with pride ..." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Train Whistles and Hunting Horns: The History of the Plains, Virginia. Signed copy.
- Author
- [Fauquier County, Virginia]. EVANS, D'Anne with John K. Gott
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Signed first edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Piedmont Press
- Place of Publication
- [Warrenton, Virginia]
- Date Published
- (1993)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Faquier County, Virginia, The Plains, John Gott, D'Anne Evans, Signed, Horses, Fox Hunting, Civil War
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil War; Hunting, Fishing; Horses; Virginia;
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