Twelfth [12th] U.S. Infantry 1798-1919: Its Story by Its Men

By: Aloe, Alfred; Gordon, Clifton R. (Preface); Taft, William Howard (Foreword)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Members of the Twelfth U.S. Infantry / The Knickerbocker Press: 1919

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2201686

Condition: Very Good

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First edition. Signed, inscribed & dated May 1st 1919 by Clifton R. Gordon, a member of the 12th infantry, and the author of the preface. Light 1 inch smudge on front board, front & end matter lightly foxed. xvi, 425 pp. Original blue cloth, gilt titles, blind-stamped borders. Black & white photographs throughout, several woodcuts. Frontispiece of 12th infantry commander Alfred Aloe. View more info

Cote the Wood Carver (The Canadian Art Series) [Jean-Baptiste Côté]

By: Barbeau, Marius

Price: $30.00

Publisher: The Ryerson Press: 1943

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2275900

Condition: Very Good

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Inscribed and signed by author on front flyleaf ('To my dear friend Nella Sachs, who helped me to select the illustrations, Marius Barbeau'). Hella Sachs was an artist, and wife of Julian Street, Jr. This volume was acquired along with a collection of other books from Street's personal library. Board edges faded, a couple smudges on rear board. 1943 Hard Cover. 43, [3] pp. A brief study of the career of Jean-Baptiste Côté, who worked as a figure-head carver. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs of Cote's works, and woodcut illustrations. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian an... View more info

Tsimsyan Myths, Illustrated (National Museum of Canada Bulletin No. 174, Anthropological Series No. 51)

By: Barbeau, Marius

Price: $10.00

Publisher: National Museum of Canada: 1961

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2276393

Condition: Good

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Inscribed to Hella Sachs, signed, and dated by author on title page, signed on front wrapper also. This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Edges rubbed with minor loss from spine head and foot, pages toned. 1961 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. v, [1], 97, [1] pp. A collection of native folklore, illustrated with woodcuts. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology, was a Rhodes Scholar and advocate of the preservation and celebration of the traditions of native peoples. View more info

Louis Jobin, Statuaire (1845-1928) (Memoires de la Societe Royale du Canada, Troisieme Series - 1943, Tome XXXVII [37])

By: Barbeau, Marius

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Imprime Pour La Societe Royale Du Canada: 1943

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2276907

Condition: Very Good

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Inscribed and signed to Hella Sachs by author on front wrapper. This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Edges faintly creased. 1943 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. 17-23, [1] pp. French text. A brief study of the career of a Canadian sculptor. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology, was a Rhodes Scholar and advocate of the preservation and celebration of the traditions of native peoples. View more info

Modalite Dans Nos Melodies Populaires (Memoires de la Societe Royale du Canada, Troisieme Series - 1944, Tome XXXVIII [38])

By: Barbeau, Marius

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Imprime Pour La Societe Royale Du Canada: 1944

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2276909

Condition: Good

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Inscribed and signed to Hella Sachs by author on front wrapper. This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Edges faintly creased, minor loss from corners, light stain on top page margin. 1944 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. 15-25, [1] pp. French text, title translates as Modality in Our Popular Melodies. A brief study of music. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology, was a Rhodes Scholar and advocate of the preservation and celebration of the traditions of native peoples. View more info

The Indian Speaks

By: Barbeau, Marius; Melvin, Grace

Price: $30.00

Publisher: The Caxton Printers, Ltd. / The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd.: 1943

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2276387

Condition: Very Good

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First edition. Inscribed to 'Mme Hella Sachs', signed (in French), and dated (15 Mai 1943) by author on front flyleaf. This volume was acquired from the personal library of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Lacks jacket. Spine lightly toned, corners rubbed and slightly exposed. 117, [3] pp. 8vo. A collection of native folklore, illustrated with woodcuts. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology, was a Rhodes Scholar and advocate of the preservation and celebration of the traditions of native peoples. View more info

The Hotel Eden: Stories

By: Carlson, Ron

Price: $40.00

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1997

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2269564

ISBN: 0393040682

Condition: Very Good

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First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('For Steve, who has been true! Your friend, Ron Carlson'). A bit smoky, page ridges faintly foxed. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 224 pp. 8vo. A dozen stories feature a young man who discovers that Eden is not a permanent residence, a baseball player who accidentally becomes a killer, and a teenager from Phoenix who experiences an unsettling sexual awakening. View more info

The Arachnid Order Chelonethida (Stanford University Publications University Series, Biological Sciences, Volume VII, Number 1 [Vol. 7, No. I])

By: Chamberlin, Joseph Conrad

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Stanford University Press: 1931

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2260279

Condition: Very Good

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Inscribed to fellow arachnologist Robert L. Gering (from whose library this volume was acquired) and signed by author on dedication page, signed by author again without inscription on title page. Possible custom rebinding (we have another copy from the same collection in red cloth with gilt titles on the spine - this is plain brown cloth with no title on the exterior). Rear hinge a bit shaken. 1931 Hard Cover. 284 pp. 8vo. A study of pseudoscorpions by an arachnologist who spent much of his career as an expert in this particular field. Black-and-white diagrams throughout. View more info

A New Pleiade: Selected Poems

By: Chappell, Fred; Cherry, Kelly; Dillard, R.H.W.; Galvin, Brendan; Garrett, George; Slavitt, David R.; Taylor, Henry

Price: $15.00

Publisher: LSU Press: 1998

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2117909

Condition: Near Fine

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First edition. Inscribed & signed by one contributor (Kelly Cherry) on title page ('To Abe, I thought this might interest you. Hope so! Love and admiration forever. Kelly, 11/98'). Rear jacket flap lightly creased.Very Good. 1998 Hard Cover. A New Pleiade is a celebration of close literary friendships among seven eminent American poets -- Fred Chappell, Kelly Cherry, R. H. W. Dillard, Brendan Galvin, George Garrett, David R. Slavitt, and Henry Taylor. The affection, fun, and mutual respect of this happy association of poets have resulted in this anthology, in which the selection from the work ... View more info

Jump Rope Rhymes for Vineyard Kids

By: Cornell, Liz

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Studio Books & Prints: 1992

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author. Signed by illustrator

Seller ID: 2282730

Condition: Near Fine

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First edition. Presentation copy - signed by author and illustrator and inscribed, For Janet Westerberg, Nov. 14 '92. Numbered 1370 of 1500 copies. Rear wrapper very faintly foxed. 1992 Stapled Binding. Unpaginated. Illustrated by William Blakesley. A collection of rhymes to say while jumping rope. Rhymes include: Gingerbread Houses; Fishing; Sea Shells; Island Queen; Kites; Catch of the Day; Mad Martha's; Ferry Boats; Flying Horses; Band Concert. View more info

From Heroin to San Quentin: A Novel

By: Duffy, Clinton T.; Linkletter, Eva Irene; Cranston, Alan

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Java Books, Morro Bay: 1977

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2022010

Condition: Very Good

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First edition. Inscribed & signed by Eva Irene Linkletter to Carlson Wade, her literary agent, on front endpaper. Very faint stain to front endpaper along binding edge. Includes original jacket.Very Good. 1977 Hard Cover. 304 pp. A novel focusing on the struggle of a heroin addict during his time in San Quentin prison. View more info

A Thesis on Hospital Hygiene, for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine in the University of New York. Session 1858-9.

By: Francis, Valentine Mott

Price: $125.00

Publisher: J.F. Trow, Printer: 1859

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2290936

Condition: Very Good

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First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed 'To John Austin Stevens Esq, with compliments of his friend the author' on front flyleaf. Spine and edges a bit faded, front and end matter lightly foxed. 1859 Hard Cover. iii, [1], [11]-217, [3] pp. 8vo. Portrait plates of Valentine Mott Francis and John Wakefield Francis (one young, one old). A doctoral thesis written by a member of the New York Historical Society, and the son of NYHS Librarian John Wakefield Francis, who founded Rutgers Medical College. View more info

Runaway Bear

By: Freeman, Chester D.; McGuire, John E.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company: 1993

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2282731

ISBN: 0882899562

Condition: Near Fine

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First edition. Presentation copy - signed by both authors with inscription, To Janet Westerberg, May the magic of teddy bears always delight your heart! Chester Freeman John McGuire February 10, 1994. Related papers and letter from Chester Freeman to Janet Westerberg laid in. A very nice copy. 1993 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. Illustrated by Rachel Kuper. The morning of the little girls' birthday has almost come, and the bears have yet to return This warm and adventurous story teaches children the importance of being kind and polite when dealing with others. It also shows the positive role of... View more info

Never a Dull Moment

By: Gerling, Curt

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Plaza Publishers: 1974

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2201858

Condition: Very Good

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First edition. Association copy - signed & inscribed by Gerling to friends of his, with a postcard and a short typed letter to the same laid in, both referring to a shared interest in music. Very good in good jacket. A few jacket tears repaired with tape on reverse, jacket lightly toned, still nice under fresh mylar. 1974 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiii, 322 pp. A collection of short writings by the author of Smugtown, U.S.A. and Good Enough for Grandpa. View more info

The Southwest Review Reader

By: Hartley, Margaret L.; Maxwell, Allen; Oates, Joyce Carol; Horgan, Paul; et al

Price: $25.00

Publisher: SMU Press, Dallas: 1974

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2118879

Condition: Near Fine

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First edition. Signed by editor and inscribed to a close friend on front endpaper ('For Abe Rothberg, whose friendship during twenty-six years has meant much to me personally and whose contributions have added greatly to the value as well as the prestige of the Southwest Review. With every possible good wish, Margaret, 6-4-79'). Minimal wear to jacket corners.Near Fine. 1974 Hard Cover. xiv, 242 pp. 8vo. A collection of literary works (short stories and poetry) by various authors, including: Paul Horgan; Joyce Carol Oates; J. Frank Dobie; William Stafford; etc. View more info

Monroe Country (1821-1971): The Sesqui-Centennial Account of the History of Monroe County, New York [Sesquicentennial]

By: Hosmer, Howard C.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Flower City Printing, Inc.: 1971

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2201949

Condition: Very Good

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First edition. Inscribed without attribution and signed by author on front endpaper. Laid in is a note written by a Democrat & Chronicle photographer explaining his relationship with Hosmer. Near fine in good jacket. 1 inch chip from jacket corner. 1971 Hard Cover. 327 pp. A sesquicentennial history of Monroe County in Western New York, by the editor of the Rochester Times-Union newspaper. View more info

From Little Acorns: The Story of Oak Hill, 1901-1976 -- The Seventy-Five Year Account of the History of Oak Hill Country Club, Rochester, New York

By: Hosmer, Howard C.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Oak Hill Country Club: 1977

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2291997

Condition: Near Fine

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Association copy - inscribed to Rochester author Henry Clune, and signed by author ('To Henry Clune, with every good wish - H. Hosmer') on front endpaper. 1977 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 104 pp. Oak Hill Country Club, located in Pittsford, New York, a suburb of Rochester, has a rich history of golf. It started out in 1901 as only 9 holes on 85 acres (0.3 km²) on the banks of the Genesee River in Rochester. The clubhouse was no more than a converted farm house. However, at the time golf was a relatively new sport in America, and as popularity of the sport grew... View more info

Daniel Willard Rides the Line: The Story of a Great Railroad Man

By: Hungerford, Edward

Price: $20.00

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1938

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2293265

Condition: Very Good

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First edition. Inscribed and signed by author to a personal friend on front endpaper ('To my Faithful Friend Carl Hallauer, who knows a good book when he sees it and adds it to his library, Orchids and good wishes, Edward Hungerford, Westover House, 1941'). Lacks jacket. Hallauer's bookplate on endpaper opposite inscription, spine a bit faded. 1938 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. ix, [1], 301, [1] pp. 8vo. A biography of the president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, whose wage negotiations during the Great Depression earned him a spot on the cover of Time magazine... View more info

Russian Modernism: The Transfiguration of the Everyday (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)

By: Hutchings, Stephen C.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1997

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2289554

ISBN: 0521580099

Condition: Near Fine

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First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('To Brenda, to whom this book owes so much! Best wishes, Steve Hutchings'). Jacket lightly rubbed. 1997 Hard Cover. 316 pp. This book interprets the baffling complex of meanings attached by Russian culture to the concept of everyday life, or byt, and assesses its impact on Russian modernist narrative. Drawing on modern literary theory and theology, Stephen C. Hutchings argues that byt emerged from a dialogue between two aesthetic systems, one predominant in Western Catholic and Protestant cultures, the other reflected in Orthodox... View more info

Toward Daybreak: Poems

By: Hutchison, [Hazel] Collister; Romains, Jules

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1950

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2276385

Condition: Very Good

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First edition. Inscribed, signed, and dated by author on front endpaper ('For Mrs. Hella Sachs, with best wishes and thanking her for a memorable evening. There is no loneliness. There is only longing to love - Page 57, Hazel Colliston Hutchison, February 8th, 1962'). This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., Hella Sachs's husband. Jacket price clipped, jacket toned, edges lightly rubbed. 1950 Hard Cover. 88, [6] pp. 8vo. A collection of poetry, with four illustrations by Marc Chagall created specially for this book. This unusual volume brings together in col... View more info

Arctic Clothing of North America - Alaska, Canada, Greenland

By: King, J.C.H. [Jonathan]; Pauksztat, Birgit; Storrie, Robert

Price: $30.00

Publisher: The British Museum Press: 2005

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2293152

ISBN: 0714125687

Condition: Near Fine

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Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('George, The very best of colleagues and friends! Jonathan King January 2006'). 2005 Large Softcover. 160 pp. In the Arctic, well designed and superbly tailored clothing allows people to hunt and survive in the world's harshest conditions. Both sea and land animals, birds and fish, provide raw materials for the creation of unique forms of highly efficient clothing - different types of parkas, trousers, layered footwear, gloves and headwear. Such clothing not only protects people but also connects societies to the environment that they inhabit and e... View more info

First Person: Canada's First Woman Senator - A Biography of Cairine Wilson [with] Three Signed Letters from the Author to a Contributor of Source Material

By: Knowles, Valerie

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Dundurn Press: 1988

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2275902

ISBN: 1550020293

Condition: Near Fine

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First edition. Laid in are three letters (two TLSs, one ALS) from the author to Hella Street, asking for and thanking Mrs. Street for her assistance in providing letters that were used as a source for this work. Mrs. Street is cited in the 'unpublished sources' section of Knowles's bibliography. Hella Street was the wife of Julian Street, Jr., and this volume was acquired along with a collection of other books from Street's personal library. Also laid in is an envelope sent from Ottawa to Connecticut, and a photocopy of an October 29, 1988 review of the book in The Globe and Mail. Street's nam... View more info

Canaries at Work and Play: Bird Stories in Pictures and Verse, with Valuable Information and Suggestions on Cages, Food and Accessories

By: Kosht, Jean Berry

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Wetzel Publishing Co., Inc.: 1946

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2281668

Condition: Very Good

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First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front flyleaf ('A splendid New Year to our newly made friends. Jan 1 - 1955, Sincerely, Jean B. Kosht.'). 1946 Hard Cover. 102, [2] pp. 8vo. The author enjoys an outstanding reputation for her knowledge of training and raising canaries. She has many trophies and awards for her success in this work... Kosht brings her readers a vivid account of the lives of her trained canaries. Embued with the spirit of make-believe, the author weaves a romantic tale around Tinkerbell and Don Bonito, and another about Fastidious Bunny... An enchanting book of tr... View more info

Magnalia Christi Americana; or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from its First Planting, in the Year 1620, unto the Year of Our Lord 1698. In Seven Books., in Two Volumes, with an Introduction and Occasional Notes, and Translations of the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin Quotations [Beecher-Stowe Family Copy]

By: Mather, Cotton; Robbins, Thomas; Robinson, Lucius F.

Price: $3,750.00

Publisher: Silas Andrus & Son.: 1853

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 1955932

Condition: Very Good

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Second American edition, including a new preface and the preface from the 1820 edition. This copy belonged to the Stowe family, and is quite likely the precise copy referenced in Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Poganuc People': It was a happy hour when [father] brought home and set up in his book-case Cotton Mather's Magnalia, in a new edition of two volumes. (quoted in Baker, America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi America, p. 5). Harriet is noted as among the authors influenced by this title (Hall's Dictionary of National Biography). Given the importance of the work, and it's influ... View more info

Rochester on the Genesee: The Growth of a City

By: McKelvey, Blake

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Syracuse University Press: 1993

Edition: Second Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2282387

ISBN: 0815625960

Condition: Near Fine

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Second edition. Inscribed and signed by author ('To Harold Hacker, innovative civic leader, compassionate retiree and warm friend, with best wishes, Blake McKelvey'). Related inserts laid in. 1993 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 333 pp. This updated edition marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of Rochester. It is a narrative history of the ten generations that inhabited and built what began as a mill town on the Genesee Falls and which has grown into one of upstate New York's key cities. View more info

In an Eighteenth Century Kitchen: A Receipt Book of Cookery, 1698

By: Nichols, Beverley; Rhodes, Dennis

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Cecil Woolf: 1983

Edition: Signed Copy

Seller ID: 2278593

ISBN: 0900821000

Condition: Near Fine

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Signed by publisher (Cecil Woolf) with inscription: For Leslie Elliott and Mr. Elliott, with all manner of good wishes, from the publishers, Jean and Cecil (Woolf), 28.VII.84. Tear along jacket spine and hinge previously mended with tape on jacket rear, one-and-a-half inch tear along front jacket panel hinge, front jacket flap price-clipped. Ink note (Leslie sent to me, 1985) on half-title page. 1983 Hard Cover. 57 pp. Cecil Woolf, the publisher, is the nephew and oldest living relative of Virginia Woolf. In 1917, Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard Woolf founded the British publishing hous... View more info

Behold the Women: A Tribute to Sisters and Nuns of the Catholic Church in the United States and Other Countries

By: Paulos, Daniel Thomas

Price: $50.00

Publisher: St. Bernadette Institute of Sacred Art: 1994

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2200541

Condition: Near Fine

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Signed by author with letter. 1994 Large Hardcover. 208 pp. 11 1/8 x 8 5/8. Numerous photographs. Signed association copy with letter, The personal testimonies in this book were written from the heart, by people of all walks of life and levels of education...Keywords: NUNS RELIGION CATHOLIC CHURCH HISTORY BIOGRAPHY MONASTICISM CATHOLICISM RELIGIOUS CHRISTIAN CHRISTIANITY DANIEL THOMAS PAULOS View more info

First Symphony: A Sonnet Sequence

By: Pulsifer, Harold Trowbridge

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press: 1935

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2276397

Condition: Very Good

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First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('Dear Julian Street -- I send you this in gratitude - duly acknowledged on page 95 for your friendly interest in my effort to crowd a full course dinner into a sonnet -- A college boy read it last night and exclaimed God, that makes me hungry! -- Harold T Pulsifer'). The referenced page is marked with pencil in the margin, next to the text reading I am indebted to Julian Street's 'Where Paris Dines' and to his friendly personal suggestions for help in constructing this sonnet. This volume was acquired from the personal collection... View more info

Visions

By: Rochester Institute of Technology

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Rochester Institute of Technology: 1979

Seller ID: 2276528

Condition: Very Good

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Inscribed to Kener Bond, former assistant dean of the College of Fine & Applied Arts, by then dean Robert Johnston. Front hinge loose, revealing that a Kodak ad was used as a backer for the spine. Easily repaired, and otherwise an excellent copy. 1979 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. A sesquicentennial publication celebrating the individuals who helped make the Rochester Institute of Technology a success. Color photographs throughout. View more info