| Notes: First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. A couple tiny nicks to bottom jacket edge, otherwise an exceptional copy. Scarce - only 5 in OCLC, none in trade, no auction records. 2003 Large Hardcover. xvi, 521 pp. An impressive collection of color contemporary photographs, black-and-white historical photos, and descriptive text, compiled by the author of Ontario County Cobblestones and Building Canandaigua. A helpful list of bibliographic sources precedes the text, along with reproductions of maps of Canandaigua and South Bristol. Swartout establishes the geologic history of the region and the heritage of regional Native American tribes, then begins her history in the era of the American Revolution, the Phelps-Gorham Purchase, and the Pickering Treaty. |