Gods Lodge (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 195 pages. 8.30x5.30x0.70 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 7th printing ; 126 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm ; ISBN 9781596293359, 1596293357 ; OCLC 145431761 ; LCCN 2007025647 ; LOC No GR110.R4 B74 2011 ; Dewey 398.209745/7 ; color pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: Prudence, Patience, Hope and Despair -- Bound by the Sea-- Soul of a Pirate -- Jailhouse Inn-- A Street Bids Farewell -- Stevens Shop -- John Bull -- God's Little Acre -- Island of Death -- Beyond Salvation -- Accusation from the Grave-- II Last in Peace: -- Grave Resurrection -- Palatine Light -- White Horse Tavern -- Peleg Sanford House -- Elk's Lodge -- Pilgrim House Inn -- III Great Gilded Ghosts: -- Astor's Beechwood -- Ghosts Off Broadway -- Firehouse Theater -- Entertaining Entities -- Newport Art Museum -- Redwood Library-- Preservation Society -- Viking Hotel -- Bells on the Reef -- Indian Spring -- IV Legendary Newport: -- Paranormal Research with TRIPRG -- Mentalist Rory Raven -- Bridge to Nowhere -- Yesterdays -- Of the Briny Deep -- Scandal and Murder -- Werewolves of Portsmouth -- Vampire Capital of America -- Mercy -- Final Battle -- Salem Witches -- Newport Literature -- The Station ; FINE. Book.…

Condition: good. Some shelf, storage or usage wear present. The binding is tight and all pages are present. The pages appear aged but unmarked. Light staining on the page edges. Pictures available upon request. Individually inspected by Shay. Thanks for supporting an independent bookseller.

40pp. A dramatic frontis illustration captioned, "the cruel catastrophe of MARY FINLEY." Disbound, uniformly toned, lightly spotted. Good+. The caption title at page [5] is: "The sorrowful life and cruel death of Mary Findley, (daughter of Major Hugh Middleton, Edgefield District, South Carolina.) Who, after giving a handsome fortune to a most depraved husband, was barbarously drown'd by him in eight weeks after marriage!!!" Weems "reports the murder of Mary Findley, the daughter of Major Hugh Middleton of Edgefield who was 'barbarously drowned by her husband eight weeks after her marriage'" [McDade]. AAS's online entries state, "Although no newspaper account of the murder or execution has been located, an advertisement for the fifth edition of Weems' history of Mary 'Polly' Middleton in the March 14, 1809 issue of the Alexandria Gazette, Alexandria, Va., states that Weems was 'on the spot where Mr. Findley was executed, at Edgfield [sic] Court-House, South Carolina, April 27, 1804.' Genealogical records for Hugh Middleton, while inconclusive in some respects, do include a daughter Mary who died in 1804." McDade 305. AI 14865. …