Sketches of old Bristol

by Charles O. F. Thompson

$75 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Providence: Roger William Press, 1942. First edition, 8vo, pp. 2 , xiii, 3 , 418; spine a but sunned else a very good, sound copy in original red cloth stamped in gilt; without a printed dust jacket, as issued. Quaint, humorous and historical sketches of the D'Wolfs, Simeon Potter, John Howe, the town crier, the Bristol Phoenix, Hog Island, old burying grounds, the 1938 hurricane, the Herreshoffs, etc. Item #56634

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