ALER, Vernon

History of Martinsburg and Berkeley County, West Virginia

Hagerstown MD: The Mail Publishing Company, 1888. First Edition. 8vo. 23cm x 16cm. Publisher's original black embossed cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board, the machine gilding has dulled over time, particularly to the spine, but the cloth is bright and clean, slight bumping and scuffing to extremities, but a very good, strong, tidy copy. 438pp. Internally remarkably clean. An exhaustive and very detailed (if not particularly even handed) history of West Virginia "From the origins of the Indians...to the First White Settlement of The Valley."

Price: $250.00

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