[Rarebooks] fs: Ohio-iana (3 books)

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 7743 )  Fordham, Elias Pym (Edited by Frederic Austin Ogg). PERSONAL 
NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS IN VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO, INDIANA, 
KENTUCKY; AND OF A RESIDENCE IN THE ILLINOIS TERRITORY: 1817-1818.
Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1906. First printing, Full cloth, 
Octavo, 248 pages, [+10 pp. ads], black & white plates. Very Good.
      Elias Fordham arrived in America in the Spring of 1817 to take part in 
the colony of English Prairie, which was established in Illinois by Morris 
Birkbeck, a Quaker farmer from England. But this remarkable account, edited 
from Fordham's letters and a journal, contains much else, including 
observations on the land and people of Virginia, a voyage up the Chesapeake 
Bay, a trip on the Pennsylvania Road from Baltimore to Pittsburgh, the 
people of western Pennsylvania, a flat-boat trip from Pittsburgh to 
Cleveland, the classes of people met on the frontiers, a trip through 
Kentucky to Cincinnati, and much more. An important account of the 
development and population of the Mississippi Valley in the early 19th 
century with many interesting criticisms of the region. HOWES #F257; HUBACH 
p. 49. Bound in dark green cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine title. 
Library bookplate neatly tipped to front pastedown but no pocket, stamps, or 
other marks. Rear endpaper is split along hinge but hinge not broken. Minor 
external wear consisting of shallow extremity bumps, light rubs. Spine has a 
faintly faded area of perhaps an inch square.    $100.00
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(No. 6878 )  Walling, H[enry]. F[rancis]. ATLAS OF THE STATE OF OHIO FROM 
SURVEYS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF H. F. WALLING; PUBLISHED BY HENRY S. 
STEBBINS
1868.
Knightstown, IN: Bookmark, 1976. Reprint, Wrappers, Elephant folio, 68 
pages, Maps. Good.
      Reprint of this 1868 atlas. Detailed maps of towns and counties around 
the state, along with data on canals, climate, agriculture, land grants, 
surveys, geology, railways, statistics, etc. Large format measuring 
approximately 14" x 17". Printed tan paper covers with cloth spine. Some 
light soil to front cover with a bit of dampstaining to top fore corner of 
front cover. Title page has a narrow (1/8" to 1/4" deep) strip of 
dampstaining along 3" of top edge. Binding is sound, all else in great 
shape.    $75.00
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(No. 9379 )  Workers of the Writers' Program, Works Projects Administration 
in the State of Ohio. THE NATIONAL ROAD IN SONG AND STORY.
[Columbus, OH]: [Stoneman Press], 1940. First printing, Wrappers, Octavo, 48 
pages, drawings, centerfold map. Good.
      Brief historical narrative followed by several poems, published to 
commemorate the centennial of the completion of the "National Pike" across 
Ohio. The centerfold map shows the road's progress across the state by year, 
with an inset map showing the road spanning the modern United States as US 
Route 40. Text is illustrated throughout with drawings by Arthur Griffith. 
Ends with a chronology. BREWER #737. Bound in printed paper covers over a 
saddle-stapled binding. Rubs and browning to covers with a 1.5cm area at top 
fore corner of front cover where top layer of paper has been lifted off as 
if by adhesion. Top fore corners of last 4 leaves mis-trimmed, otherwise 
interior is near fine. Nice copy of an uncommon WPA booklet.    $75.00
See photo: http://www.backcreekbooks.com/bookphotos/9379.jpg

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 Rimell, Raymond Laurence (Foreword by Frederick B. Sowrey).  'Zeppelin!: A 
Battle for Air Supremacy in World War I.'
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