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Durham, N.C.: Duke University, Center for International Studies, 1987. xiii, [1], 142 pages. Original printed wraps. [22.7 cm.] Very good. Wraps a bit sun-faded, especially on spine; minor foxing to top edge; internally clean. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION BY PHELPS, dated in the year of publication, on the title page. It is addressed to Doug O'Dell, who was the proprietor of Chapel Hill Rare Books in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. While the inscription is unsigned, the handwriting is identical to another item in my inventory that was signed by Phelps on the same date. The papers in this collection were written for a symposium held in honor of Phelps on the occasion of his retirement from Duke University, where he was a longtime professor of German. Phelps was also a pioneer in the use of computers in foreign language education. In addition to tributes to Phelps by the editors, the volume includes: "Melville's German Streak" by Harrison Hayford: "Recent Trends… Read More

Philadelphia: [Printed by] G. and D. Billmeyer, 1817. 12mo (signed in sixes). [16.5 cm.] [6], 572, [20] pages. Text in two columns. One page (528) with printed musical notation. Fourth edition, revised, so stated. Bound with (as usual and probably as issued): DAS KLEINE HARFE ... [Same imprint as preceding.] 55, [1] pages. Fourth edition, so stated. The two works are bound together in the original full calf with raised bands and blind rules near spine ends and on covers. The two original clasps are sturdy and close tightly. Front hinge repaired internally and externally with Japanese tissue. Else near very good. Some small scuffs to leather, thin slit at center of front cover. Some light to moderate damping and foxing. Stains to portion of two leaves of second work, with some associated creasing, but affected text still legible. Early owner's inscription on front free endpaper: "Christina Zigler's Book, 1840." AI 40208 and 41207. Bötte & Tannhof, "First… Read More

Ludlow, Vermont: Rev. Fred MacArthur, [circa 1938-early 1940's]. [2], 62, [1] pages, plus frontispiece portrait. Printed music throughout. Original printed wraps. 23 x 16 cm. Good plus. Light foxing and soiling to wraps; frontispiece foxed; foxing to p. 31, mostly affecting gutter; and a few traces of marginal foxing and soiling elsewhere. Apparent FIRST EDITION. Contains over 60 hymns performed by Rev. Fred MacArthur as the "Singing Parson" on WNBX Radio of Springfield, Vermont beginning in the late 1930's. A brief preface (p. [2]) discusses the history of the show, which was sponsored by the Wellwood Furniture Company of Springfield and was begun two years before this book was published. MacArthur (b. 1907), a native of Belmont, Mass., was the pastor of the Ludlow Baptist Church in Ludlow, Vermont. None of the songs contained in the book are his own. The most frequent contributors were Bentley DeForest and Alfred Henry Ackley; Charles H. Gabriel; and C. Austin Miles.… Read More

London: Ernest Benn; New York: David White, [1968]. 76 pages. Illustrated by Richard Shirley Smith with a number of drawings, some full-page (included in the pagination). Original red cloth. [22.1 cm.] Fine in very nearly fine dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. The book and jacket were printed in England, but the jacket is priced in dollars. A biography of the composer.