Our island, (A Hearthstone book)

Teater, Walter C

Published by Carlton Press, 1969

About this Item

Carlton Press [Published Date: 1969]. Hardcover, 56 pp plus 4 pages of black and white photo reproductions, 8 pages of a timeline entitled "Tidbits of Wheeling History; and 6 pages of of "facts and figures" including two black and white illustrations. No other printings listed. Good in acceptable+ dust jacket. Pale green cloth covered boards with black lettering on spine. light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. 1" tear along seam at bottom edge of half title page. Previous owner's inscriptions on front free end paper and one title page. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has several 1/2" or less chips and tears and creasing along edges. Moderate overall scuffing and soiling to jacket as well with a bit of the color scuffed off along edges and spine. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival-quality Brodart Cover NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From jacket flaps] This is history ? Wheeling Island, West Virginia history ? and it is geography. It is demography, and it is fond remembrance. The author has been a resident of the area around which he casts his nets of reminiscence for seventy and more years. It's not what it used to be, he tells us, but what is? His aim is to show how Progress has altered the beautiful island at the tip of a promontory into the Ohio River. And he wishes to show how, though the old days of circuses, great houses, and floods will never be forgotten, the new times will be worth remembering, too. "What I write are my own observations, my own personal feelings as a young American boy growing up and just taking a glance backward to the days that have pas sed and have gone on an island I shall call Our Island, hoping that I can inspire young minds to a higher ambition and a greater patriotism for their city or town." "Many years ago, the author goes on, "God placed an Island in a fertile valley called the Ohio River Valley, surrounded by water; yes, sometimes covered by water?the Ohio River, which the French explorers called La Belle Riviere ? beautiful river. And it is a compelling, nostalgic look backwards (enlivened and revivified by a chronology in appendix and numerous wonderful old photographs that Mr. Teater takes as he takes the geographic measure, length, and breadth of the land. 'Many events I have forgotten," he candidly informs the reader, "but the events I have remembered I pass on to you. I assure you that they are true.". Seller Inventory # 20180207001

Bibliographic Details

Title: Our island, (A Hearthstone book)

Publisher: Carlton Press

Publication Date: 1969

Binding: Unknown Binding

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable