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Legends Traditions and Superstitions of Westchester

  • Cloth
  • Printed for Private Distribution, 1890
By Charles Pryer
Printed for Private Distribution, 1890. Cloth. Very Good. Scarce 1890 1st (and almost certainly only) edition of this retelling of "legends, traditions and superstitions of Westchester" Co., New York. Crisp and VG in its dark-green cloth, with bright gilt-titling along the front panel and spine. Small, neat name ("Dr. Wm. L. Wells") written lightly at the front free endpaper and also at the title page. Half a dozen very narrow, small worm-holes burrowed through along the fore-edge (but showing almost no wear to any of the pages). Octavo, chapter headings include" "Mystery of a Pelham Farmhouse", "Bedford Courtship", "The Haunted Brook", "The Spirit Lady", "The Devil's Gardener", "The Wood Famine", "The Treasure Hunters", etc.
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