Item 1215Danton, A Study
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1928). First American Edition. Thick large 8vo. 9-9/16" x 6-5/16". 2" thick. 448 pp. including index. Attractive book plate on front pastedown. Item #1215
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Item 106The Siege of New Orleans
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1961. Hard cover with mustard color cloth binding. Title printed in black on spine. Very good, clean tight, probably unread. Bottom corner tips a little rubbed. / Price clipped but crisp, very good jacket. Shows a little yellowing along front fore-edge and bottom edge and spine. Tiny, minor chipping along top edge of spine.
334 pp. including extensive index and bibliography and notes. Item #106
Item 191A Bibliography of The Village Press 1903-1938, Including an Account of the Genesis of the Press by Frederic W. Goudy and a Portion of the 1903 Diary of Will Ransom, Co-Founder
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books, Edward Ripley-Duggan, Nicholas T. Smith, (1981). Originally published in 1938. This is the 1981 reprint. Blue cloth 8vo. 205 pp. including index followed by 7 pp. Errata, Conclusion and Addenda. Tight, clean, very good, almost fine but for three small stains on the bottom edge of the text block. / Dust jacket is fine.
Illustrated with photographs. This bibliography documents the career of The Village Press with meticulous detail and insight. In a short memoir at the beginning of the book, Frederic W. Goudy gives an account of the vicissitudes of a printer's life that is certain to ring familiar with anyone who has experienced the "fun and fury" of a private press. The brief section from the diary of Will Ransom, co-founder of the press, gives some idea of the magnitude of the initial problems that were encountered. despite these difficulties, they were still able to produce books that were an able tribute to William Morris in many ways Goudy's chief inspiration in book design. The prss was no mere imitation of the Kelmscott Press, however. In the years of its operation it forged a style that was distinctly Goudy's
Frederic W. Goudy was perhaps the most influential type designer, English or American, of the twentieth century. His influence on advertising art and book design was considerable, and he became an artbiter of typographic taste for an entire generation between the wars. Part of the reason for his success lay with his practical knowledge of the problems of designer and printer. Much of this expertise was gained through his Village Press. Item #191
Item 839The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Korean Student Edition
Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., (1984). Illustrated with many graphs and figures. Original copyright is 1964. This edition printed in Korea for Korean Students only in 1984. Three volumes. Perfect bound 4to. Text in English. All books very good to fine. Item #839
Item 1194The Lure of Gold, Being the Story of the Five Lost Ships of Christopher Columbus
Meador Publishing Company: Boston, 1940. 8vo. 7-7/8" x 5-3/4". Green cloth covered boards stamped in gold. 215 pp. No index. Fine. Item #1194
Item 797Holding on to the Land and the Lord, Kinship, Ritual, Land Tenure, and social Policy in the Rural South
Athens: University of Georgia Press, (1982). First Edition. 8vo. Softcover. 164 pp. including index. Previous owner's name in ink, otherwise as new condition. ISBN: 0820305960 Item #797
Item 1946The Book of Old Ships
Garden City, 1935. Gordon Grant. First Edition. Hard Cover. fine / very good. Item #1946
Item 2170Personality Development, A Practical Self-Teaching Course
New York: Personal Improvement Guild, 1946. Each booklet graced with cute little spot illustrations. Fourteen 12mo staple bound booklets, 7-1/4 x 4-15/16". Stored in original lidded box. Booklets in very good to fine condition. / Box in very good condition.
Included titles are: 1 Good Posture;2 Physical Fitness; 3 Mental Health; 4 The Well-Dressed Woman; 5 The Well-Dressed Man; 6 Speech Improvement; 7 Social Conversation; 8 Business English; 9 Know Your Work; 10 A Background o General Knowledge; 11 Increasing Mental Efficiency; 12 Character The Keystone of Personality; 13 Good Manners; 14 The Principles You Live By. Item #2170
Item 109The Story of the Jubilee Singers with Their Songs
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, no date. Revised edition. Green cloth stamped in black and gold. A tight, clean very lovely copy. Just two tiny pin holes along the front joint (visible in photo). Bumped lower front corner. Only touch of slight wear at top and bottom of spine.
Small 8vo. 263 pp.
This volume is in part an abridgment of the two Jubilee Histories which were written by the Rev. G. D. Pike, and which have had a wide circulation, one giving an account of the first campaign in America, and the other of the first visit to Great Britain. But the interval between these two narratives is here bridged over, and the story is brought down to the return of the Jubilee Singers from Germany.
The personal histories have been more fully written out, and a large number of new songs have been added, including several of the most popular pieces ever given in the Jubilee concerts. J.B.T. M. Item #109
Item 2059What''s Wrong with Your Game
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1930. 8vo. 8" x 5-13/16". Bright green cloth stamped in red. Pictorial endpapers. 240 pp. including index. Book is fine. / Dust jacket is sturdy but somewhat faded and worn. One triangular piece one inch deep at top edge of back panel is missing.
". . . one of H. B. Martin's golf pictures is worth a dozen pages of wordy explanation. This original idea of teaching golf by diagrams is generally credited to H. B. Martin who some fifteen years ago began to present in graphic form the teachings of the professional. All phases of the game are covered; no problem or situation with which either the amateur or experienced golfer may find himself confronted has been overlooked." Item #2059
Item 1971The Fishes of Ohio - Fish
Ohio State University Press, 1957. Milton B. Trautman. First Edition. Hard Cover. fine - neat former owner's inscription to the front end-paper / very good. Item #1971
Item 1118The Christian's Family Bible.
Title page reinforced. A few minor flaws.Overall a very good copy of a beautifully produced 18th century family Bible.
Containing the Old and New Testaments at Large: and the Apocrypha. With Comments and Annotations, Theological, Historical, Critical, and Moral: by the Reverend W. Rider, A.B. Late of Jesus College, Oxford, One of the Master's of St. Paul's School, and Chaplain to the Worshipful Company of Mercers. London: Printed for the Author; and (By His Appointment) Sold by Mess. Wilson and Fell, at the Angel in Pater-Noster- Row; W. Ward at Sheffield; T. Merril at Cambridge; and W. Jackson at Oxford. Vol. 1: 1763; Vol. 2: 1767; and Vol 3: 1765.
Complete in three volumes, serially issued, (and apparently out of sequence).
Folio (14.5 inches tall). Rebound in full calf bindings. Minor stains and fading to bindings, scattered scuffing at edges of bands. Some paper repairs. Edges of end papers toned. Extensive family records penned inside Vol. 1.
Records of awarding Freedom of the City to (apparently) a guild member. Text block clean and bright. Unmarked. Wide clean margins. Over 100 engraved plates and maps interspersed throughout.
Ownership signature of Nick Farmer, dated April 16, 1768. Four pp. of handwritten genealogy of the Farmer family. Item #1118
Item 1389Fifty Years on the Skirmish Line
Chicago: Fleming H. Revell Company, (1893). Inscribed on the free front endpaper: "The best wishes of the Author, E. B. Sherwood." 8vo. Blue cloth covered boards. Coated midnight blue endpapers. Spine stamped in gold. 264 pp. plus 8 pp. publisher's ads. Some fraying at top and bottom of spine. Overall a tight, clean very good copy.
Story of a pioneer Presbyterian preacher covering his work in New York, Michigan and Missouri. Includes three sermons. Item #1389
Item 1072Let's Look at Wild Animals
London: Brown Wells & Jacobs Limited, 2000. Illustrated and designed by Ruth Wickings. Square 4to. 10" x 10". Pictorial paper covered boards. Five pop-up illustrations. Pop-ups fine. As new condition.
Bright colors and wonderfully bold, artistic pop-ups bring to life the fascinating world of the wild in this fact-and fun-filled book. Item #1072
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