First edition, first printing (with publisher's requisite statement for latter upon copyright page). [10], xiv, 552 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 14.5cm. Dust jacket with some foxing and light soiling; a few nicks and short tears at edges; toning to spine and along flap folds; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Brownish-red cloth with gilt stamping to front board and spine. Strong foxing to top edge; lighter foxing to fore-edge and bottom edge; non-authorial thirteen-line Christmas gift ink inscription at top right quarter of front free endpaper; a few foxing spots at page margins; toning at spine corners of pages 396-397 caused by a now removed bookmark; interior pages overall remain clean. Binding is firm. Else a very good copy in a very good- dust jacket. With early map of Falls Church reproduced on front and rear endpapers, frontispiece, subscriber list, Acknowledgements, Introduction by Omer L. Hurst, Author's Foreword, short essay "Home Town" by Harry Kinzie, Jr., two sections of b/w plates on unpaged leaves, Appendix (includes a Bibliography), and Index. There was a limited first printing which presumably has priority over this "trade" first printing. Early printings of Melvin Steadman's popular book are now uncommon and much sought after by those interested in the history of Falls Church, a prominent enclave in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC.

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FALLS CHURCH: BY FENCE AND FIRESIDE. [Falls Church, Virginia local history reference.]

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Falls Church, VA: Falls Church Public Library, November 1964.

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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