Description
Carlton Press, Published 1969. Hardcover, 56 pp. plus unnumbered pages of black-and-white photographs, a chronology, tables, and two sketches; 21 cm; A Hearthstone Book (subsidy imprint); no printing statement.
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Condition & notes
In Good condition with an Acceptable dust jacket. Pale green cloth boards with black lettering on spine, mild shelf wear, light bumping to corners. Binding tight. Previous owner's gift inscription in ink on front free endpaper, dated August 1969, and an ink note beneath the author's name on title page identifying him as a boyhood friend of the inscriber, neither in the author's hand; short tear at gutter of title page. Pages toned, otherwise unmarked. Illustrated dust jacket (the island in green between two blue channels of river, with its bridges; author portrait on rear panel; $2.95 on front flap, not price clipped) with chips at head of spine and upper front corner, a chip at fore-edge of front panel, edge creasing and small tears, soiling and some color loss along spine and edges. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Memoir of Wheeling Island, the Ohio River island at Wheeling, West Virginia, by a resident of seventy-odd years (b. Bridgeport, Ohio, 1891, on the island from age two), written in 1966 and issued through a New York subsidy press. Teater worked the Ohio County land books for the Zane family's ownership and the 1863 deed to Bishop Whelan, then writes from memory: Belle Isle Beach and its bath house before Dams 12 and 13 raised the pool and drowned it, the wooden ice storage house on the Back River, the island school and the principal's high hat, the Schmulbach horse-breeding farm with sketches of its brick house and 340-foot barn, the Aetnaville hose racing team of 1905 (full roster), and Uncle Tom Lawson, who took tolls on the Bridgeport bridge for fifty-two years. Photographs include Belle Isle bathers, the Harkheimer boat of 1910, a house upset by the 1936 flood, the old Steel Bridge torn down in 1967, and the new Fort Henry Bridge. Appendix gives a Wheeling chronology from 1786 to 1849 and a table of flood crests from 1810 to 1966.