Description

E. S. Boughton, Published date: 1899. Hardcover, 68 pp; 26 cm. First edition. In good condition / no dust jacket. Solid green cloth covered boards with black pattern at top and bottom of front cover and gilt title on front. Light overall scuffing and soiling to covers with a bit of the color scuffed off along edges and a bit of nicking to the cloth at the top and bottom of spine. Thin crack to spine at the top of the title page. Otherwise binding is solid. 1" tear on the bottom edge of the first 18 pages. Previous owner's (Francis Conkling Huyck founder of Kenwood Mills) attractive bookplate affixed to front paste-down. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but unmarked. Not Ex-library. Black-and-white photographic and line-illustrated frontispiece and plates. A record of the 250th anniversary celebration of East Hampton, Long Island, held August 23 - 24, 1899. Contents: Historical Address by H. P. Hedges; The Parade and Flag-Raising; Afternoon Exercises (addresses by C. H. Butler, William H. Baldwin Jr, T. De Witt Talmage, Dr. James McLeod, Dr. Abel Huntington, Rev. David H. Greer, and Dr. John Paxton); The Decorations; Chronological List of Events in the history of East Hampton 1639-1899; Song of East Hampton; Report of the Executive Committee. A rare locally produced anniversary keepsake.