STONEWARE IN SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA by Schaltenbrand, Phil - 1996

St. Albans, VT: St. Albans High School. 1928. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Spine weak. ; Includes a Short History of the School, Former Principals and Teachers, Athletics, Class Roster and more. ; B&W Photographs; 100 pages .

Boston: From the Press of the Christian Examiner, 1828. Leather_bound. Near Fine. 6 x 8 1/2 inches. 368 pages. Bookplate of Elisabeth Fisher Everett inside front cover. Otherwise pages clean and free of marking, soiling or staining. All page edges gilt. Gilt bright. Bound in contemporary full black calf with gilt rolled borders to both boards and gilt dentelles. The spine has four (false) raised bands with gilt decoration, and additional gilt decoration at the head and tail of the spine. Spine also has gilt title ("Chapel Services"). Owner's name in gilt to front cover. Very light shelf wear to edges and corners. King's Chapel is the oldest church in America with continuous weekly worship services. Its liturgy is a unique hybrid that reflects this history, largely based upon the 1662 English Book of Common Prayer . A truly spectacular example of this scarce liturgical work in an unusually well decorated American binding.

Privately Printed by the Press of the Bryant Printing Co, 1897. Hardcover. Very Good. Original 1898 Mt. Holyoke College Yearbook: Llamarada. Bound in dark-red cloth with silver gilt lettering and botanical decoration to front panel. Much historical content, including rosters of faculty, students, alumni and much, much more. Densely illustrated with photos and drawings. Includes many period ads. Obituary of 10th President Elizabeth Storrs Mead laid in. 260 pp. + 34 pp. of ads. Tight, unmarked copy with one slightly pulled but strongly attached signature. Light shelf wear to extremities. In all, a very presentable copy of an important historical resource. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

San Francisco: William Andrews Clark, 1930. No. 85 of 250 copies privately printed, by John Henry Nash. Vellum-backed tan boards, both books housed in individual compartments in a single slipcase. very good. William Wilke. 2 volumes, being a facsimile of the 1890 Sydney first edition, and a finely printed volume. Illustrated with two frontispiece portraits, one of Father Damien and one of Stevenson designed and drawn by William Wilke, with short facsimile inscription to each portrait. 21x14 cm (8¼x5¾") and 32x23 cm (12½x9"), vellum-backed tan boards, spines lettered in gilt, both housed in individual compartments in a single slipcase with printed paper spine label. No. 85 of 250 copies privately printed for William Andrews Clark, Jr., by John Henry Nash. -- Printed by Nash at Clark's behest, one of a series of similar publications Clark gave out as a Christmas gift. With "Compliments of William Andrews Clark, Jr., Christmas, 1930" tipped-in paper label at front free endpaper of larger volume.… Read More

n.p.: Myrtle Jones Longacre, 1963. Good. No DJ. Buckram cover is sunned and shows light soiling and shelf wear. Binding is split at title page. Interior is clean and without ownership marks. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books. "A true account of the Jones family."

St. Albans, VT: St. Albans High School. 1928. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Spine weak. ; Includes a Short History of the School, Former Principals and Teachers, Athletics, Class Roster and more. ; B&W Photographs; 100 pages .

Boston: From the Press of the Christian Examiner, 1828. Leather_bound. Near Fine. 6 x 8 1/2 inches. 368 pages. Bookplate of Elisabeth Fisher Everett inside front cover. Otherwise pages clean and free of marking, soiling or staining. All page edges gilt. Gilt bright. Bound in contemporary full black calf with gilt rolled borders to both boards and gilt dentelles. The spine has four (false) raised bands with gilt decoration, and additional gilt decoration at the head and tail of the spine. Spine also has gilt title ("Chapel Services"). Owner's name in gilt to front cover. Very light shelf wear to edges and corners. King's Chapel is the oldest church in America with continuous weekly worship services. Its liturgy is a unique hybrid that reflects this history, largely based upon the 1662 English Book of Common Prayer . A truly spectacular example of this scarce liturgical work in an unusually well decorated American binding.

Privately Printed by the Press of the Bryant Printing Co, 1897. Hardcover. Very Good. Original 1898 Mt. Holyoke College Yearbook: Llamarada. Bound in dark-red cloth with silver gilt lettering and botanical decoration to front panel. Much historical content, including rosters of faculty, students, alumni and much, much more. Densely illustrated with photos and drawings. Includes many period ads. Obituary of 10th President Elizabeth Storrs Mead laid in. 260 pp. + 34 pp. of ads. Tight, unmarked copy with one slightly pulled but strongly attached signature. Light shelf wear to extremities. In all, a very presentable copy of an important historical resource. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

San Francisco: William Andrews Clark, 1930. No. 85 of 250 copies privately printed, by John Henry Nash. Vellum-backed tan boards, both books housed in individual compartments in a single slipcase. very good. William Wilke. 2 volumes, being a facsimile of the 1890 Sydney first edition, and a finely printed volume. Illustrated with two frontispiece portraits, one of Father Damien and one of Stevenson designed and drawn by William Wilke, with short facsimile inscription to each portrait. 21x14 cm (8¼x5¾") and 32x23 cm (12½x9"), vellum-backed tan boards, spines lettered in gilt, both housed in individual compartments in a single slipcase with printed paper spine label. No. 85 of 250 copies privately printed for William Andrews Clark, Jr., by John Henry Nash. -- Printed by Nash at Clark's behest, one of a series of similar publications Clark gave out as a Christmas gift. With "Compliments of William Andrews Clark, Jr., Christmas, 1930" tipped-in paper label at front free endpaper of larger volume.… Read More

n.p.: Myrtle Jones Longacre, 1963. Good. No DJ. Buckram cover is sunned and shows light soiling and shelf wear. Binding is split at title page. Interior is clean and without ownership marks. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books. "A true account of the Jones family."