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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Green embossed clothbound with dustjacket. Exterior is v clean and square along the edges. Interior is also v clean and tightly bound. Only flaws to book are clipped price mark on dj and a small price mark on inside cover.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine condition. Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition (so stated). Boonton, New Jersey: Boonton Historical Society, 1976. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($10.00). NO chips. NO tears. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. NOT a book club edition. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Well-illustrated with maps, prints, document facsimiles, and vintage photos. Endpaper maps. A history of the early days in 'Old Pequannoc' [later Boonton, Montville, and Pequannock], Morris County, New Jersey. Includes accounts of early settlers; the iron works built in 1829; development spurred by the availability of fuel (Pennsylvania anthracite coal transported by the Morris Canal); the world-famous nail factory; William Lathrop, John Hill, Dr. John Grimes and the abolitionist movement; the Underground Railroad; Boonton's disproportionate contributions to the Union in the Civil War (a sixth of the population enlisted); the great fires of 1873 and 1906; etc. Wendt says there are no connections between present-day Boonton and Old Boonton, which today lies buried beneath the waters of the Jersey City Reservoir in Parsippany. Laid-in are 2 "Old Boonton" birds-eye-view map postcards, and other related materiel. Appendix. Chapter notes. Index. Bound in the original gilt-decorated blue cloth. Complete with dust jacket. First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. (xi), 173pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine condition. Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition (so stated). Boonton, New Jersey: Boonton Historical Society, 1976. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($10.00). NO chips. NO tears. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. NOT a book club edition. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Well-illustrated with maps, prints, document facsimiles, and vintage photos. Endpaper maps. A history of the early days in 'Old Pequannoc' [later Boonton, Montville, and Pequannock], Morris County, New Jersey. Includes accounts of early settlers; the iron works built in 1829; development spurred by the availability of fuel (Pennsylvania anthracite coal transported by the Morris Canal); the world-famous nail factory; William Lathrop, John Hill, Dr. John Grimes and the abolitionist movement; the Underground Railroad; Boonton's disproportionate contributions to the Union in the Civil War (a sixth of the population enlisted); the great fires of 1873 and 1906; etc. Wendt says there are no connections between present-day Boonton and Old Boonton, which today lies buried beneath the waters of the Jersey City Reservoir in Parsippany. Appendix. Chapter notes. Index. Bound in the original gilt-decorated blue cloth. Complete with dust jacket. First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. (xi), 173pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…