Forgotten Towns

[bobpbx]

Somewhere along the way I had lost my old paperback...Forgotten Towns. So I says to myself; how much is a hardcover? I found a first edition on AbeBooks for $10.48 and signed by the author. Strange how there is a page in the flyleaf shorter than the others where he signed it. Is this his signature? Did he carry around signatures and paste the page in? Looks like he gave it to a Mrs. H. H. Hilliard...probably a little infamous in her own right. I love the photo of Bamber abandonded houses....looks like it was in the plains. In fact so does the photo with the small locomotive out by Pasadena. Back when fires made the pines look like the pines.

 

[Teegate]

Bob,

The dust cover on the copy of More Forgotten Towns that I have has a sticker on it saying "This book has been personally autographed by the author." However, the book is not signed which may mean the paper was just inserted as yours was and mine is missing.

Guy

 

[bobpbx]

Guy, look for evidence of glue along the margin of the flyleaf. Mine appears to be glued in.

 

[Teegate]

I have to say I acquired this copy from Lost Town Hunter and there is a chance the dust jacket did not belong to this book.

Also, this is a more recent Rutgers edition (1963). I don't see any evidence of glue.

 

[woodjin]

Nice find, Bob. I wonder if the pines as depicted in those photographs is the result of fire for clear cutting (especially the one in Pasadena).