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1990Please note: this is a paperback copy. 966 pages including glossary, bibliography and index. Colour and black and white illustrations. "There has been an acute need for a publication on the identification, distribution, biology and economic importance of the freshwater fishes of Canada. This book provides facts and figures on all species occurring in Canadian fresh waters." - from back of half-title page. Unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A quality copy of this exceptional reference. Book
1988Best.-Nr. 22245NY: MCGRAW-HILL. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0070313717 . First edition. SIGNED by Jim 'Catfish' Hunter on half-title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. Paper in text lightly age toned. . MCGRAW-HILL. hardcover
1954116 pages. Features: Great Rockwell cover illustration of excavator attempting to dig up kid's baseball field in a vacant lot; Our daughter had polio - Kay Reiten had to be treated in an iron lung; Don't sneer at the catfish - great article on the popular catfish with photo of Leon Bishop and Carl Yarbrough holding huge catfish they hauled out of the Tallahatchie River, near Abbeville, MS, with their bare hands; They Hit Red China Where it Hurt - over 4,000 Chinese Communists surrendered in Korea, allowing them a chance to explain why they swallowed Communism, and how Mao's tyranny can be defeated; The Republicans Muffed the Ball in Dixie - where are the Eisenhower voters now?; TV's Shoestring Surprise - The Johns Hopkins Science Review has rung up one of TV's longest hit runs; Colony of the Outcast Kings - color-photo feature of Estoril, Portugal, now a swanky resort; Never Marry an Actress - they may be delightful on stage, but around the house they're vain, insincere, and obsessed with themselves. Fiction: Shackles for the Groom; The Sitting Duck; The Seeds of Hate; The Hard-Luck Type; The Mask of Alexander (part 2 of 6); Invitation to Murder (part 6 of 8). Ads: Elegant one-page color-photo ad for Packard cars; Nice color-photo ad for a cream-colored Cadillac convertible; Two-page ad for Du Pont's nylon for truck tires features photos of Leonard Bisgrove of Red Star Express in Auburn, NY, and Edward Benkert of Fairmount Foundry in Philadelphia; Gorgeous color-photo ad for the 1954 Chrysler New Yorker De Luxe Newport (blue); Champion Spark Plug ad features photo and endorsement by racer Jim Kimberly; Nice two-page color ad for the Scenicruiser by Greyhound bus lines; Nice color Chevrolet ad features an off-white Bel Air Convertible plus an inset color photo of a Corvette convertible, "First of the Dream Cars to Come True!"; Fascinating one-page photo ad by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau of a trucker enjoying a 'Coffee-break', suggesting this campaign may have introduced this term now used throughout North America; Prest-O-Lite battery ad features photo of footballer Doak Walker of the Detroit Lions; Sweet half-page vintage color ad for Dairy Queen Malts and Shakes; Color ad for the Northern Pacific Railway's Vista Dome/North Coast Limited service; Back page Camel cigarette ad features photos of John W. Fincher of Cairo, GA, A.R. Schneidewind of Upper Montclair, NJ, Mrs. B. Collins Edgar of Lookout Mountain, TN, W.C. Fowler of Dallas, TX, J. Russell Fraser of Detroit, Mrs. Katharine B. Coelsch of The Dalles, OR, and Evelyn Terjesen of New York City. Above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
1968Best.-Nr. ST20742Davenport Iowa: Catfish Press 1968. FIRST EDITION. No. 15 OF 50 COPIES specially bound SIGNED by the author and with a portfolio of brush-written letters from a total edition of 1400. 283 x 216 mm. 11 1/8 x 8 1/2". xi i 310 pp. 1 leaf; 7 printed leaves. Two volumes. Publisher's marbled blue boards text volume backed with reddish-brown leather gilt lettering on spine portfolio backed in gray cloth paper label on upper cover. Housed together in a slightly toned matching slipcase with paper label on spine. With typographic illustrations throughout the text volume and with four pages of printed brush-drawn letters and 23 SHEETS OF LETTERS BRUSH-DRAWN BY CATICH in the portfolio. In near-mint condition. In very fine condition this is a signed deluxe copy of a ground-breaking work on the roman alphabet by the American Catholic priest artist and calligraphy expert Father Edward Catich 1906-79. Lettering was important for the author from an early age as he was apprenticed to a sign writer as a young orphan and practiced that trade for several years before earning a master's degree in art and moving to Rome to study for the priesthood. While in Rome where he also studied paleography he made a thorough study of the letter forms incised on Trajan's Column. In the 19th century a theory emerged suggesting that the letters for such inscriptions had first been painted on with a brush before being engraved in the stone. Using the expertise he had gained as a union sign-writer Catich developed the widely accepted thesis that the letters of the imperial Roman inscriptions owed their shape and characteristic serifs not to the exigencies of the chisel or other stonecutting tools but to the use of a flat brush to paint the letters on the stone. The present work is the fullest development of that thesis which led to Father Catich's being recognized as one of the world's foremost experts on the origins and history of the roman alphabet. Our book was not only written but also printed by Catich at his Catfish press partly in type of his own design. The deluxe edition includes a full Roman alphabet of letters written out by hand by Catich; he writes in the introduction that they are intended "for study and for encouraging others in the use of the chisel-shaped brush." It is important he tells us that such a brush does not die out since ignorance of it "severely limits our western creative letter-making potential." The attractive portfolio of original calligraphy rounds out this set looking both back to the Roman tradition and forward to the future of the art so dear to Catich. Our special signed limited edition is uncommonly seen on the market. Catfish Press unknown
1968Best.-Nr. ST20742Davenport Iowa: Catfish Press 1968. FIRST EDITION. No. 15 OF 50 COPIES specially bound SIGNED by the author and with a portfolio of brush-written letters from a total edition of 1400. 283 x 216 mm. 11 1/8 x 8 1/2". xi i 310 pp. 1 leaf; 7 printed leaves. Two volumes. Publisher's marbled blue boards text volume backed with reddish-brown leather gilt lettering on spine portfolio backed in gray cloth paper label on upper cover. Housed together in a slightly toned matching slipcase with paper label on spine. With typographic illustrations throughout the text volume and with four pages of printed brush-drawn letters and 23 SHEETS OF LETTERS BRUSH-DRAWN BY CATICH in the portfolio. In near-mint condition. In very fine condition this is a signed deluxe copy of a ground-breaking work on the roman alphabet by the American Catholic priest artist and calligraphy expert Father Edward Catich 1906-79. Lettering was important for the author from an early age as he was apprenticed to a sign writer as a young orphan and practiced that trade for several years before earning a master's degree in art and moving to Rome to study for the priesthood. While in Rome where he also studied paleography he made a thorough study of the letter forms incised on Trajan's Column. In the 19th century a theory emerged suggesting that the letters for such inscriptions had first been painted on with a brush before being engraved in the stone. Using the expertise he had gained as a union sign-writer Catich developed the widely accepted thesis that the letters of the imperial Roman inscriptions owed their shape and characteristic serifs not to the exigencies of the chisel or other stonecutting tools but to the use of a flat brush to paint the letters on the stone. The present work is the fullest development of that thesis which led to Father Catich's being recognized as one of the world's foremost experts on the origins and history of the roman alphabet. Our book was not only written but also printed by Catich at his Catfish press partly in type of his own design. The deluxe edition includes a full Roman alphabet of letters written out by hand by Catich; he writes in the introduction that they are intended "for study and for encouraging others in the use of the chisel-shaped brush." It is important he tells us that such a brush does not die out since ignorance of it "severely limits our western creative letter-making potential." The attractive portfolio of original calligraphy rounds out this set looking both back to the Roman tradition and forward to the future of the art so dear to Catich. Our special signed limited edition is uncommonly seen on the market. Catfish Press unknown books
