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vii + 221pp., editor's hardcover, 22cm., few foxing at edges, good condition, C92845
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean of marking, underlining or marginalia. 245 pages in english and creole. Contents include The Hatian Creole alphabet, Basic Haitian Creole, The verbs, Haitian Creole verbs used with some proverbs, Haitian Creole verbs that are also nouns, Haitian Creole verbs that can be used as attributives in some cases, "Twin verbs", etc.
16 pages. Contents: Summer Toilettes; Cycling for Women; Groom and Bridegroom; Women and Men - new athletics for women; Family Living on $500/year, by Juliet Corson; New York Fashions - double aprons, wing drapery, ruffles, striped satin surah, other styles for summer silks, black point d'esprit dresses, marquise lace dresses, malines lace dresses, new white dresses, summer jewelry; Personal; Embroidered Piano Scarf; Pattern included with this issue; Work for Idle Hands; The Woodlanders - continued; A Paper Wedding; Creole House-Keeping; Graffiti; Amazing centerfold illustration "The Punishment of Nebuchadnezzar"; Cherrycote, by Mrs. Burton Harrison; Paston Carew - Millionaire and Miser, by E. Lynn Linton - continued; Paris Fashions; Borders for linen embroidery; embroidered work-pocket; embroidered waste-paper basket; a "Profeel Machine"; humor. Average wear. Some yellow staining. Book
Features: complete reprint of rare book "Tales of the West" by Frank W. Calkins; Elkhorn - Montana's amazing ghost town; Stolen Bullion of Indian Ridge - taken from 'Golden Treasures of the San Juan' by John B. Marshall and Temple H. Cornelius; Arizona's Toughest Ranger - Jeff Kidder; The Barker Family looks at the old days - a family moves west/'call-cattle' of the mountains; Utah's Unknown - the Newfoundland Mountains in Utah; The Goldrush follies; Battle at Ball's Ranch, Texas; The Big Old Red Ants of Cow Country - Bert Judia; Where the Gold Turned from Yellow to Green - Idaho's Clearwater country got a second chance; Wells Fargo and the Concord; Lore of Lynx Creek - stray bullet kills a community; 'Cash up' Davis' love affair - his hotel south of Spokane; Garry Owen - the pride of Fort Bliss; Cottonwood Tales of central Kansas; Thirty Days in a Rut - early motor journeys; A Raft of Trouble for the Wrong Train - the Percy train robbers of Wyoming; Lost Fort of the Cimarron; Mrs. Burton's macabre ordeal courtesy of Peter A. Vallat, French Creole born in New Orleans. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Footnotes, Glossary of Creole terms referring to Voudoun, References, Index. Black and white photographic plates. Diagrams. Voudoun is the religion, primarily African in origin, of the vast majority of the inhabitants of the Republic of Haiti. This work "Delineates this cult as an experienced and comprehended initiation into the mysteries of man's harmony within himself and with the cosmic process." - Editor's Foreword. Average wear to publisher's blue cloth decorated with gilt upon front board. Unnmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating reference. Book
393-488, 126 [ads] pages. One fold-out drawing. Profusely illustrated with detailed drawings and black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Includes dozens of magnificently illustrated ads. Features: The Residence of F.F. Peabody, Esq., Montecito, California; The Ravisloe Country Club, Homewood, Illinois - George C. Nimmons & Co., Architects; The Phi Delta Theta Chapter House at the University of California, John Reid Jr., Architect; Otto R. Eggers, Architectural Renderer and Designer; The Creole Architecture of New Orleans; Industrial Housing Developments in America - Part III, Sawyer Park, Williamsport, PA, George S. and Lewis E. Welsh, Architects; Portfolio of Current Architecture; The Architect's Library - Hispanic Society Publications. Notes and Comments. Somewhat above-average external wear. Openings at each end of backstrip. Two small binding holes near spine. Faint library stamp upon front cover. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book