(PENNSYLVANIA) Leonard Charles C The History of Pithole by C

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THE STREETER COPY (PENNSYLVANIA.) Leonard, Charles C. The History of Pithole: by "Crocus." 16mo, publisher's cloth gilt, minor wear and staining; front free endpaper detached but present, moderate foxing; early owner's inscription on title page. [8] pages of local advertisements. Pithole City, PA, 1867

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first edition. "Pithole was a product of the Pennsylvania oil boom, having had no corporate existence until 1865. The first part, to page 56, is an interesting factual history of the town and its various oil companies, while part II treats the subject more or less whimsically. The book is said to have been published at Pithole shortly before the oil boom there collapsed and to be very rare"--Streeter. Pithole is now a ghost town. If they had picked a nicer name, they might have stuck around. Howes L257; Sabin 40095; Swanson, A Century of Oil and Gas in Books, 155.
Provenance: John P. Park (an attorney from nearby Franklin, PA), 1868 inscription; sold by Mr. Miller to T.W. Streeter in 1950; Parke-Bernet Streeter sale, 21 October 1969, lot VII:4046. Only two other copies have appeared at auction since.