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1991236913San Francisco: The Chorus 1991. Magazine. 16p. includes covers 8.25x10.75 inches announcements statements artist bios staff and members memorials of members who have died ads very good program in stapled white pictorial wraps. The Chorus unknown books
1943160470GARDEN CITY DOUBLEDAY DORAN & COMPANY 1943 1943. DUST JACKET UNCLIPPED FIRST EDITION 2ND PRINTING VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover. GARDEN CITY, DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & COMPANY, 1943 hardcover books
1943100069Garden City: Doubleday 1943. hardcover. very good/very good. vi 282pp. 8vo brown cloth d.w.; dust wrapper price clipped. Garden City: Doubleday Doran and Company 1943. A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper. Book Club edition.<br/><br/> Doubleday unknown books
1886002592no place: Not published 1886. Book. Near fine condition. Unbound. Signed by Authors. First Edition. A 3.5 inch wide and 2.25 inch tall card signed boldly "Kind regards of David Swing." An attractive example of this signature. Minor adhesive staining on reverse as well as notations from the recipient which reads "Received Aug 4th 1886. M. Henry Pfaffle born 1862 Minonk Ills." David Swing 1830-1894 is of German origin and was born in Cincinnati Ohio. In 1852 he graduated at Miami university at Oxford Ohio. He was called to the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Chicago in 1866 uniting it with the North Presbyterian Church to form the Fourth Presbyterian Church. He was accused of heresy while there and the bitter trial and struggle led him to resign his position. Within a week of his resignation his popular appeal led to the formation of a new church. He was a newspaper writer and essayist and is renowned as an editor who dealt with current events. He was a member of the Chicago Literary Club from 1874 to his death in 1894. He was the first Chairman of the Committee on Arrangements and Exercises and was offered the presidency several times. He presented twelve papers of which "A True Love Story" was the Club's first published paper. He is the author of "Club Essays" and other works. Not published Paperback books
1931011961Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fine copy. Amazingly well preserved. Pictorial cover is trope of pygmy Blacks referring to the Ten Little Savages; the white children inside get more docile treatment. La plus c'est change. J. B. Lippincott hardcover books
187420814Chicago: George McDonald & Co. 1874. 8vo. 167 3 pp. <br><br>Includes "Fourteen famous sermons preached by Prof. Swing 'For utterances in which' the prosecution has based its charges of heterodoxy"; "Charges and specifications"; "Prof. Swing's Declaration"; "Prof. Patton's Argument"; "Prof. Swing's Plea"; the closing argument by Prof. Patton; and the verdict of the Presbytery. Publisher's brown cloth spine and front stamped in gilt and black. Binding slightly soiled gilt on spine darkened. Presentation inscription on front pastedown. Ex-library with bookplate on front pastedown pressure-stamp on title-page call number in pencil on verso of title-page. George McDonald & Co. hardcover books
1945JC4P-133bSan Francisco: The Grabhorn Press 1945. First Edition thus. Paperback. Like New/None. LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies handset in Goudy Modern type on machine made paper. 4to. 315 x 235 mm. 12 pp. Decorations on title introductory not by Carl I. Wheat opening initial colophon all printed in red ink; text clean unmarked. Dark green printed wrappers stitched titled in white ink; binding square and tight. INCLUDES the mimeographed letter from Carl I. Wheat. Fine. Reference: Dorothy and David Magee Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press 1940-1956 No. 408. Your order receives my personal attention. The Grabhorn Press paperback books
1945007413San Francisco CA: Grabhorn Press. Very Good. 1945. Limited Edition. Softcover. An excerpt of a broadcast given in December 1944 by the influential news commentator Raymond Gram Swing: on the legacy of Woodrow Wilson isolationism and international cooperation. One of 500 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Rough-edged blue paper wraps are sunned on edges a bit of soiling.; Book; 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall . Grabhorn Press paperback books
