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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; some yellow highlighting and margin-writing throughout the book; overall a very nice used copy! Very rare and hard-to-find title! Brown boards with gilt lettering and illustration on the front board and gilt lettering on the spine. 173 informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Extremely scarce and out-of-print first edition! "So much of our history clusters about the Shenandoah Valley and into Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Virginia, that we can almost see the rolling slopes and the blue haze of the mountain valleys. Religion played a magnificent role in the lives of our progenitors, too, and the old meeting places became landmarks, the names of which echoed down through the years. Hopewell Meeting House was one such favorite landmark of the lower Shenandoah Valley for many generations. Its staunch walls in colonial days has known the cries of wolves and the shadows of Indians." ------ from the Preface.…