216 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Hardcover, dark red cloth, endpaper map of Ohio River Valley (Missouri to Pennsylvania) 202 pages, index, 59 b/w photos, drawings, etc, with captions. Title page dated 1994 and SIGNED by author. ; Map by JMH. Chronology of the boats 1831 to 1994 by Donald McDaniel. Foreword by Kenneth L. Gladish. Preface by Rita Kohn and William Lynwood Montell. ; Personal memoirs of the performing life on a showboat (floating theater) that plied the Ohio River and its tributaries 1910s-1940s, with special emphasis on the performers and shows. Topics include: Lady Violet. The Four... View More...
24 pages; 12mo (7.25") 15 cm; Small tan softcover, 20 + 4 pages, list of characters, props and costumes, full text of play. Plenty of nursery rhymes in text, no tunes. (Publishercatalog lists 40 plays, 34 "acting" plays, 9 "negro" plays, 8 "minstrel shows," 3 charades) ; Children's play designed for 28 boys and 16 girls, with provision to add or subtract if necessary. Performance time 90 minutes. Everyone from Little Boy Blue to Old Mother Hubbard comes to visit Mother Goose at her annual family reunion. ; Light wear, two small closed tears. Very old distributorsticker (Eldridge Entertainment ... View More...
158 pages; 8vo (8.5") 23 cm; Red softcover, black plastic comb binding, 158 pages, b/w spot art, about 400 recipes of all kinds. ; Compiled and published by Women's Association, Presbyterian Church, Grosse Point Woods, Michigan, October, 1969. Committee chair Verna Mae Bryant. Illustrated by Bette Prudden and Elsa Frohman. ; Front cover shows two creases. Minor edgewear. At least one recipe marked "good" in ballpoint. Binding tight. View More...
501 pages; 8vo (8.25") 21 cm; Full brown cloth, beveled boards, exquisite decor on front and spine in gilt and black and lettering in gilt, all edges gilt, floral endpapers, appendix of notes in very small type, b/w frontispiece portrait engraving by H. B. Hall Jr with tissue guard, 180 poems, 100 b/w illustrations in text. ; Copyright 1854. This is 4th edition, 1878. ; One of American's greatest poets, William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) was an ardent abolitionist and free speech advocate. His first great poem was Thanatopsis, published in 1817. For 52 years he was an editor at the New York Eve... View More...
95 pages; 8vo (8.25") 21 cm; Ivory-white paperback, [iv] + 95 pages, author preface, 4 essays. ; Copyright 1981. This is 5th printing, January, 1987. Printed by Cone-Lewis Printing Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Cover design by Lynn Bryant. Lectures given in Tulsa at Southwest UU Summer Institute in 1981 by the great Rev. Frank Forrester Church, a leading light in modern theologically specific Unitarian Universalism. ; Covers show a few small spots, edges lightly sunned. Owner name penned on bottom edge. No other defects. View More...
