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1985réf. 2814251985. A substantial compendium regarding the Chattin Family; 297 leaves with family notes clippings etc. With the final 6 leaves being addendum of the Fifth Generation Mary Chattin Vaden -- with some handwritten annotations and additional information. unknown books
2019réf. 325420New York: Mnuchin 2019. hardcover. fine. Thomas Alma. Curated by Sukanya Rajaratnam. Text by Erin Jenoa Gilbert. Beautifully and extensively illustrated. 149 pages. Large 4to pictorial boards. New York: Mnuchin Gallery 2019. A fine copy. Mnuchin unknown books
2001réf. 307845New York: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery 2001. hardcover. fine. Alma Thomas. With color illustrations throughout. 56 pages. Slim 4to patterned red flocked boards. New York: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery 2001. A fine copy. Michael Rosenfeld Gallery unknown books
1999réf. 233457New York: Stewart Tabori & Chang 1999. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Many color Illus. Oblong 4to blue cloth d.w. New York: Stewart Tabori & Chang 1999. Very good Stewart Tabori & Chang unknown books
réf. 166147hardcover. 16 color and 175 b/w illus. 4to cloth d.w.; d.w. and cloth lightly soiled. N.Y.: Crown 1960. unknown books
1952réf. 52251NY: Simon and Schuster 1952. Fourth printing. 8vo pp. xv 231. Illustrated wtih small drawings. Paper over boards. Cover little worn at edges o/w a VG tight copy. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1960réf. 33258Boston: Beacon Press 1960. Second edn. 8vo pp. 340 index. Publisher's cloth a very good copy. Inscribed by the author. Laid in is a publicity order form for the book with blurbs by Arthur Schlessinger Pearl Buck and reviews. Beacon Press unknown books
1993réf. 37588Baton Rouge LA: Louisiana State University 1993. First printing. 8vo pp. 165. Illustrated with photographs. Fine in dj. Neuman was an artist and writer and was married to James Agee during the time that he was working on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Louisiana State University unknown books
1947réf. 419206Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1947. Hardcover. Fine/Good. First edition. Tall octavo. 355pp. About fine in good dustwrapper with some chipping at the extremities primarily at the spine ends. Important social and statistical analysis of African-American college graduates over a hundred and ten years by a leading African-American scholar. Johnson was the first black President of Fisk University. Very scarce in jacket. University of North Carolina Press hardcover books
2001réf. 586667Pittsburgh Pennsylvania: Dorrance Publishing Company 2001. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Boards lightly splayed thus near fine in a very good dust jacket with moderate sunning to the spine and part of the panels. Third book from the Syracuse New York author. Scarce. OCLC lists four holdings. Dorrance Publishing Company hardcover books
1990réf. 441577New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Foxing on page edges near fine in near fine dustwrapper with spine lightly sunned. The author's enthralling account of her time with the Mangueira samba school in Brazil. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
2001réf. 441586New York: Pantheon Books 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 303pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Pantheon Books hardcover books
1959réf. 420974Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1959. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a little rubbing and very slight sunning on the spine. Author's second of two novels under her own name both about her seemingly happy post-war hetrosexual married life in the Fifties. Routsong the mother of four daughters eventually dispensed with her husband and writing under the pseudonym Isabel Miller produced the lesbian classic A Place for Us. The original edition was self-published in 1969 and sold by Routsong outside the meetings of the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis. A later hardcover version was published by McGraw-Hill under the new title Patience and Sarah. Like her first novel A Gradual Joy this title is exceptionally uncommon which is unusual for a novel from a mainstream publisher. This is a very nice copy. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1953réf. 422342Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1953. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in attractive very good or better dust jacket with two small nicks on the front panel and a couple of tiny tears. Author's first and seemingly autobiographical novel about the seemingly happy hetrosexual married life in the early Fifties subtitled on the jacket as "A novel about the 'Found' Generation." Routsong the mother of four daughters eventually dispensed with her husband and writing under the pseudonym Isabel Miller produced the lesbian classic A Place for Us. The original edition was self-published in 1969 and sold by Routsong outside the meetings of the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis. A later hardcover version was published by McGraw-Hill under the new title Patience and Sarah. A Gradual Joy is exceptionally uncommon and this is a very nice copy. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
réf. 458097Tallahassee Fl.: The Naiad Press 1986. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Trade paperback. Illustrated wrappers. Slightly sunned at the extremities very near fine. Author's second book an autobiographical novel which traces her early married life during WWII and her eventual acknowledgment and acceptance of her lesbianism. Routsong was the author of the classic lesbian novel A Place for Us which was later published as Patience and Sarah. Inscribed by Routsong at her author photo to Julie Radford: "My dear friend Julie Radford with love Thanksgiving Day 1987 from Alma." Routsong has also crossed out the name Isabel Miller under her author picture and Signed as Alma Routsong. Julie Radford succeeded Routsong in the affections of her longtime partner and muse Elizabeth Deran although they all remained good friends and neighbors. Deran was originally Routsong's partner and the longtime motivating force in her life during the time she wrote A Place for Us which was selected by the American Library Association as the winner of its first Gay Book Award now called the Stonewall Book Award. A significant association. Books signed by Routsong are uncommon. The Naiad Press unknown books
réf. 458099Tallahassee Fl.: The Naiad Press 1990. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Trade paperback. Illustrated wrappers. Spine sunned else near fine. Author's third book a novel of two young women separated by their parents who take different paths to eventually arrive at the same place: the tumultuous upheaval at the Stonewall Inn. Routsong was the author of the classic lesbian novel A Place for Us which was later published as Patience and Sarah. Inscribed by Routsong on the half-title: "To Julie Radford an old friend of longstanding with love and thanks from Isabel Miller. November 30 1990." Radford succeeded Routsong in the affections of her longtime partner and muse Elizabeth Deran although they all remained good friends and neighbors. Deran was originally Routsong's partner and the longtime motivating force in her life during the time she wrote A Place for Us which was selected by the American Library Association as the winner of its first Gay Book Award now called the Stonewall Book Award. A significant association. Books signed by Routsong are uncommon. The Naiad Press unknown books
1975réf. 455271Washington D.C.: Zenger 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine. Reprint of a 1959 title. Octavo. 340pp. Blue cloth gilt. Very faint spotting on the boards and endpapers else near fine without dustwrapper. Zenger hardcover books
2005réf. SKU1009922Gli OriItaly 2005-01-01. PAPERBACK. Good. 10x9x1. Light wear clean tight no marks or notes. Part of barcode sticker on rear cover: Prompt shipping and professional packing. HS Gli Ori,Italy paperback books
2001réf. 46266New York: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery 2001. Very Good. New York: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery 2001. First Edition. Quarto 28.5cm; original scarlet blind-embossed felt over boards; 56pp.; full color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear and dust-soil to cloth boards a bit bowed else Very Good. Exhibition retrospective of the late painter Alma Thomas 1891-1978 the first African American woman artist to be featured in the White House's permanent collection. Michael Rosenfeld Gallery unknown books
1949réf. 4618Nashville: A.M.E. Sunday School Union 1949. About very good. 1221pp. Original pictorial wrappers stapled. Minor wear rubbing and dust-soiling to wrappers. A detailed account of the 1949 North Ohio Annual Conference of the A.M.E. Church held in Cleveland. The work includes listings of attendees the daily proceedings lists of appointments committee appointments committee reports statistical tables and more. The last page is reserved for an In Memoriam notice for seven seven members of the church who have passed. Rare with no copies reported in OCLC for any year although there are a handful of listings for the North Ohio Conference Branch of the Woman's Mite Missionary Society. A.M.E. Sunday School Union unknown books
1926réf. 4617Cleveland: Wilfred-Gardner Pub. Co 1926. About very good. Two pamphlets: 80; 80pp. Each in original printed wrappers stapled. Wrappers of earlier volume chipped and detached with old tape repairs along spine. Minor toning to text of later volume. Both volumes internally clean. A pair of conference programs published in the wake of the annual meetings in 1925 and 1926 of the North Ohio Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's Third Episcopal District. The 1925 meeting was held in Youngstown and the following year's conference took place in Cleveland. Each program includes detailed information on the officers and attendees of the conference conference activities and reports educational addresses financial information reports from the presiding elders a report on the "State of the Country" statistical tables and much more. OCLC reports just a smattering of issues at five institutions -- Howard Atlanta University Miami of Ohio Western Reserve Historical Society and Cleveland Public Library but none of these institutions report holdings from these two years. Wilfred-Gardner Pub. Co unknown books
1927réf. 4616Cleveland 1927. Good. Three serial works: 432; 511; 471pp. All bound in original printed wrappers stapled. Mostly minor wear and dust-soiling to wrappers some chipping. Middle work worn and chipped with text block and both covers detached but present and no loss of text. A trio of works recording the minutes of three separate annual sessions of the North Ohio Conference Branch Women's Mite Missionary Society of the A.M.E. Church between 1924 and 1927. The meetings were held in Youngstown Cleveland and Alliance Ohio respectively. Each work prints the officers and members of the N.O.C.B.W.M.M. Society as well as each conference's daily activities the minutes of the Executive Board meeting various officer and committee reports and more. One of the more interesting features of the works is the two-page table which concludes each work listing the various societies throughout Ohio their president and corresponding secretary and detailed financial data. All three pamphlets also contain the text of the President's Report or Annual Address providing details on the leadership activities of the group. The first two pamphlets have an ownership signature on the front wrapper belonging to Miss Veetta Jackson of Alliance who almost certainly attended all three annual sessions and is listed in the Conference Branch Roll of the third year when the event took place in her hometown. OCLC records microfilm or digital records for a couple of years apparently 1922 and 1926 at a handful of institutions but does not report any copies for any of the annual reports present here in any format. unknown books
1979réf. 75910N.P.: Har-Ma Press 1979. cloth. Har-Ma Press. 8vo. cloth. 54 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 103 numbered copies this being a presentation copy to an unidentified printer with the ink signature of Harold and Alma Smith. Text includes wood engravings by Harold Smith that are accompanied by prose descriptions of the origin of each piece. Ephemera loosely inserted. Har-Ma Press unknown books
1978réf. 62980Har-Ma Press 1978. cloth. Har-Ma Press. small 8vo. cloth. 411 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 100 numbered copies on 12 Point Centaur "in a corner of the garage on a minipress made by Harold F. Smith; type set by Alma Smith. Inscribed by the authors to previous owner on front free endpaper with a personal bookmark laid-in. Har-Ma Press unknown books
1977réf. 17080402n.p.: The Private Press of Alvin S. Fick 1977. Limited Edition. Stiff wraps. Fine. One of 70 copies not stated miniature book 20 pp. letterpress printed. A perfect Christmas keepsake which is how this was presented as set forth in the introduction Alma and Al Fick wrote beginning with: "When Christmas approaches we hike the seventy-nine acres of this old farm to select a Christmas tree". and ending with " 'The Pine' in miniature book form brings you our warmest holiday greetings." ___DESCRIPTION: String-bound cardstock covers decorated on the outside to appear as wood-grain the front cover with the title in green and a small stylized Christmas tree in green spine with green lettering small stylized trees one green one red facing the title page title page in red and black small stylized tree in red on the verso of the title page volume opens with an introduction by Alma and Al Fick as referred to above followed by the five-stanza poem "The Pine" by George S. Bryan; per the colophon "was printed from handset Palatino and Garamond types in October 1977 on a 72 years young foot powered Pearl press which has been a faithful servant of this private press for a quarter century. The paper is Pericles Opaque Plus"; oblong miniature book 2" by 2.5" 20 pp. one of 70 copies not stated related to us by the prior owner. ___CONDITION: Fine overall the cardstock covers clean and without wear to the corners a strong square text block the string binding solid the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; still with that "tight" feel of an unopened book a wonderful example. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Private Press of Alvin S. Fick unknown books
