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1906Small hardback with stained cover. Loose illustrated pages and one illustrated page is missing. Text pages are complete and intact. Previous owner's name inside. 4 1/2"w x 6 7/8"h. 38 pages. Humorous story in dialect. Illustrations by Will Crawford.
1916pp. (8), 598. Some foxing. Inked ownership of Margaret K. Deaver on first fly leaf. A few original humorous drawings pasted in margins. All edges gilt. 16mo. 170mm. Original full royal blue cloth binding. Front board ruled in gold with gilt embossed letters. Rear board ruled in blind. Extremities slightly rubbed. James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) was an American writer and poet who began his career in 1875 writing verses in the old Hoosier dialect for the Indianapolis Journal newspaper. His poems tended to be humorous and/or sentimental and were extremely popular. POETRY BX 3
1949256p. Original full cloth binding. Limited edition. Extremely important and increasingly scarce study of loom woven coverlets. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! BEFORE ORDERING PLEASE Email to RareBooks@POBox.com so that we can CONFIRM AVAILABILITY
1948306p. Original full cloth binding; browned at the edges. XLib. but still usable. Limited edition. BEFORE ORDERING PLEASE Email to RareBooks@POBox.com so that we can CONFIRM AVAILABILITY
1891pp. viii, 208. Top margins crudely cut. 12mo. Original full purple cloth binding, slightly worn. Classic collection of west country tales, including: "Joe and the Geologist"; "Bobby Banks's Bodderment"; "The Skulls of Calgarth"; and many others. POETRY BOX 2
1971202p. Original linen cloth binding. PA 'Dutch' tales and memories.
1975119p. Illustrations. Original linen cloth binding.
193932 p. 8vo. Original printed wraps. Some light underlining in the text, but otherwise very clean. The 'Revised Edition' published in the same year as the first edition. GER-ENG PAMPH BX1 BAG 22 x4.
1949pp. 108; 86 (A Comprehensive Index to the Publications of the Lehigh County Historical Society) + Frontis + Photo plates. 8vo. Original cloth binding. Includes: Index; Clipper Hesperus; Lumpereie; Covered Bridges; Dialect stories; Iron Furnaces; and other important articles on the early history of Lehigh County and Allentown. The Index is especially important and useful. PAG034/3
1875223 p. 12mo. Original brown cloth decorated in black & gold. Decorative spine. 1876 gold stamped on front board. The last poems in this collection are in German and Pennsylvania Dutch. Author was a student in the Reformed Theological Seminary, Lancaster. Nice copy. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 30
1888136 p. Frontis. Illustrations by "Boz". Plus publisher's advertisements. Small 8vo. Original pictorial publisher's cloth binding. Humorous poems and songs in a presumed German-English dialect. Very good+. Quite scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 04A
194110 p. 8vo. Original printed wraps. GER-ENG PAMPH BX2 BAG 20.
194453 p. Illustrated. Small 8vo. Original printed wraps. "Max & Moritz" in Pennsylvania Dutch dialect. For a newer version See our listing under the title: HANS UN YARICK. GER-ENG PAMPH BX2 BAG 10
1916128 p. 24mo. Original printed wraps. Fine dialect collection. Quite scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! GER-ENG PAMPH BX1 BAG 28 x4.
1878147 p. + Excellent illustrated publisher's advertisements (12 p.). With Sixty-five Illustrations by "Boz" (M. J. Sweeney). Some age stain. Rear hinge cracked. 8vo. Gilt decorated publisher's cloth, modestly worn. Full of "Dutch" humor in pidgin dialect poems and satirical illustrations. Charles Follen Adams was born in Dorchester in 1842. He entered into mercantile pursuits at the age of 15. At twenty-two he enlisted in the 13th Massachusetts infantry; and was in all the battles in which his regiment participated. Wounded at Gettysburg, he was taken prisoner; released, and detailed for hospital duty. Since 1872 he was best known as a writer of German dialect poems, chiefly humorous. The first that appeared was "The Puzzled Dutchman" in " Our Young Folks". This was followed by various others of which "Leedle Yaw-cob Strauss" became immediately a favorite. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 01B.
197264p. Illustrations. Colorful printed wraps. Inked shelf number on front cover. Poems by the Glick family. "Truth and roses have thorns."
1939384 p. Photo frontis. Illustrated by LeRoy Gensler. Poems in Pennsylvania Dutch language. 8vo. Original blue cloth binding, spine lettered in gold. PA 010B x2.
1939384 p. Photo frontis. Illustrated by LeRoy Gensler. 8vo. Original half red leather over red cloth binding. Worn with loss at extremities. Penciled ownership of Preston A. Barba, May 8, 1939, with his penciled margin notations. Inked inscription on title page "In 1965 still to be purchased at $4.50 from Solly's daughter, Mrs. J. George Ennis 2617 Cumberland Ave, Mt. Penn, Reading, Pa.". Portrait frontis signed Harvey M. Miller, PA , Author's name. 010B x2.
1906116 p. Illustrated with small woodcuts. Title bordered in red. Text in Pennsylvania Dutch language. Sm. 8vo. Original blue cloth binding, soiled and faded. Nicely printed. Expanded 2nd edition of Hulsbuck's COLLECTION OF PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH POEMS. PA 01A.
193947 p. Original printed wraps. 24mo. Includes a few Pennsylvania-Dutch dialect pieces. On the front cover appears the title; SOME WRITINGS & FAVORITE CLIPPINGS. Knauss was the Editor of the Macungie Progress from 1888 to 1911 and correspondent for the Allentown Morning Call in 1911. Very fine copy. GER-ENG PAMPH BX1 BAG 27.
193316 p. 32mo. Original printed wraps. New Years Wishes written in the Pennsylvania German dialect. Excellent condition. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! GER-ENG PAMPH BX1 BAG 30 x18
1938pp. xiii, 47 Tall 8vo. Original publisher's yellow cloth binding decorated in red and green. Near fine copy. Important piece in the 'Pennsylvania Dutch' dialect. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 01A x3.
196978 p. 8vo. Original worn printed wraps, stain on front cover and title page. Articles in English, German and dialect. GER-ENG PAMPH BX2 BAG 17.
1970149p. + Plates. 8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth binding. Includes a wonderful piece in Pennsylvania Dutch dialect with translation: Solwell Files (Elwood D. Fisher). Dialect Translations by Melvi lle J. Boyer.
1928128 p. Uncut. 8vo. Illustrated printed paper boards. Cloth backed spine. Dialect tales first published in the Lebanon Semi-Weekly News in the late 1890's. Very good copy. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 01A x5.