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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. History of the City of Altoona and Blair County, including Sketches of the Shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. Edited by Jas. H. Ewing and Harry Slep. Altoona PA: Harry Slep s Mirror Printing House, 1880. First Edition. 262 p, original brown cloth binding measuring 9 x 6", 8vo. In good condition. Brown cloth boards normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine scuffed with some frayed cloth. Spine tanned from shelf-wear. Gilt lettering on front board bright and clean. Previous ownership bookplate found on front paste-down: "Maurice Robert des Marais". Normal to light toning throughout text-block, mostly at edges of leaves. Some instances of off-setting to leaves adjacent to plates. Binding intact. Please see photos. Harry E. Slep (1836-1906) was born in Germany in 1836 and came to this country when he was 10 years old. He worked in the newspaper industry as a young man and moved to Altoona to start the Evening Mirror in 1872. He would later change the name to the Altoona Mirror in 1874. Altoona appealed to Mr. Slep from the first. The people were hustling and hospitable; the city was prosperous; it was growing rapidly; the Pennsylvania railroad was developing its plant here; the outlook was inviting; the auspicious moment had arrived to begin to build his journalistic enterprise. As the first step in that direction he established a job office on Oct. 21, 1872, and called it the Mirror Printing House. From that humble beginning was finally evolved the Mirror Printing company and the Altoona Mirror of today. First Edition. RAREA1880BKLA - 06/18 COLU1880KBJR - 03/25 - HKREV662.