Search Results: Titles starting with V from Martin Hartzold

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924. First Edition. Very good +/Fair. 4to. 184pp. Top page edge gilt. Mustard cloth over boards with ink title illustration. Original dust jacket with woodcut design matching cloth. Jacket with prominent sections of loss from spine, crudely tape mended to exterior and interior. Panels near fully intact. Cloth with trace exterior foxing. Internally clean, bright, unmarked. Binding sound. An about very good-plus copy in a fair only jacket which presents significantly better than its described condition would suggest. A lovely first edition copy of Kent's lavishly woodcut-illustrated sailing memoir of his own journey around the tip of South America. Uncommon in jacket.

Kahoka, Missouri, [ca. 1938-1940]. Handmade scrapbook consisting of an approximately 50pp. printed booklet and 20 leaves of black album paper, all wrapped in plain black card. First seven album leaves holding 40 snapshot and small portrait photographs. Three additional snapshots and a printed/typed discharge document laid-in loose. All about very good. A vernacular production documenting the family life and Civilian Conservation Corps service of a Claudie E. Phillips (b.1918 - d.1944), originally of Greensburg, Missouri. The volume consists of a printed series of generic blank leaves intended as a keepsake for CCC enrollees, with text and printed images specific to Camp Progress and its 3745th Company located at Kohoka, Missouri. Kahoka-specific text includes a brief history of the Camp's founding, description of its conservation work, and detailed roster of leadership and enrolees (accurate as of about 1938). Additionally laid-in and mounted are more than 40 original snapshots and small portrait… Read More