Editore: Skip Jack Press, 2012
ISBN 10: 1879535254 ISBN 13: 9781879535251
Da: HPB-Blue, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
paperback. Condizione: USED_FINE. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! May contain remainder marks. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Ulteriori offerte da altri venditori AbeBooks
Nuovo - A partire da EUR 12,97
Usato - A partire da EUR 7,26
Scopri anche Brossura
Hard Cover. Condizione: USED_VERYGOOD. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good to Very Good. Nelson, Don (illustratore). Fair Wind by Livia Y. Peterson and Myrtes M. Plummer, illustrated by Don Nelson, published by Wilxox & Follett copyright 1947. Hardback 234 page book has a few blemishes where uncut pages were torn apart, but overall is in very good condition. Dust jacket shows some soiling, but overall is good to very good and in Brodart-nice looking book. NOT AN EX-LIB!.
Editore: The Vickery & Hill Publishing Company, Augusta, Maine, 1912
Da: Legacy Books II, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale
Soft cover. Condizione: USED_VERYGOOD. Light gauge paper, pictorial printed wraps, sized about 11 x 15 1/2 inches, profusely illustrated including an abundance of advertisements. Covers bright and clean but for a bit of discolored rubbing along gutter, and minor toning at edges. Contributors include Charles H. Plummer (Through The Mirror, complete), Eleanor Mercein Kelly (The Privateer, Chapters I - III), Otho B. Senga (The Second Reinforcement, complete), Don Mark Lemon (The Poet, The Burglar And The Baby, complete), Alice and Claude Askew (At Cross Purposes, Chapters IV - VI, with a synopsis of previous chapters), Andrew Loring (The Tragedy In The Tower, chapters XIII - XIV, with a synopsis of previous chapters), L. G. Moberly (Christina, Chapters XV - XVII, with a synopsis of previous chapters), and Mark F. Wilcox (Found Gold, complete). From 1869 - 1942, over 70 years, Augusta, Maine was America's mail - order magazine publishing capital with some seventeen titles published there and circulation at its height reaching an estimated three million copies. Magazines were mailed to subscribers nation - wide, and the sheer volume of sales led to the opening of a new post office in January, 1890. The major publications targeted women, particularly women in rural areas, but some also included articles and stories of interest to men and children. Farm and literary magazines were other types published in Augusta. The primary focus for the majority of the magazines was family and home life, and content included down - home advice on family life, decorating, business (raising chickens, for example), personal care, health, fashion, and the latest trends. Reading material included poetry, romantic fiction, short stories, and editorials, but most prominently the magazines offered opportunity (and encouragement) for women to buy the various and sundry items advertised. Contests and competitions were part of the allure, and subscription rates were very cheap (and often not even collected) as the magazines were supported well by the advertisements. The major publishers, E. C. Allen, P. O. Vickery and John F. Hill (who later became Governor of Maine), and William H. Gannett all became very wealthy. Publications included Good Stories, Happy Hours, Hearth and Home, American Woman, Needlecraft, and Farm World, all by Vickery - Hill Publishing Company, Comfort, by Gannett, which was the most successful of the magazines, Fireside Magazine, Peoples Illustrated Journal, the Illustrated Family Herald, Thrifty Farmer, Farming World, National Farmer, Golden Moments, Sunshine, Daughters Of America, and Practical Housekeeper, all by Allen, and later Gannett who took over Allen's publications in 1891. Some of the magazines including the present number were oversized, newpaper - style, and printed in quadruple columns, on cheap paper that did not hold up over time and use, thus, copies are relatively scarce, especially the early issues. Worldcat / OCLC locates only 5 repositories. See Zuckerman, A History Of Popular Women's Magazines In The United States, 1792 - 1995.
Editore: Wilcox & Follett, Chicago, 1947
Da: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hard Cover. Condizione: USED_VERYGOOD. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Don Nelson (illustratore). First Edition. Book has minor shelf wear with yellowing of pages and small pencil notation on front end paper. DJ has edge wear, light chipping at top and bottom spine and small chip at stop back, tiny closed tears at top, wear at spine edge, and light rubbing at back. Time Tested Books has been located in the same place and owned by the same people for over 20 years. We have an excellent rep. We also have tens of thousands of titles in stock and are an open shop, so when in the Sacramento area, stop in.
Editore: Plummer Design Works, Phoenixville, PA, 2001
ISBN 10: 097090990X ISBN 13: 9780970909909
Da: Canal Bookyard, Upper Black Eddy, PA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Spiral Bound Cardboard. Condizione: USED_VERYGOOD. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Blue and black titles on white illustrated soft covers, 104 pages. Illustrated with photos and a few drawings.
Ulteriori offerte da altri venditori AbeBooks
Usato - A partire da EUR 17,16
Scopri anche Brossura Prima edizione Copia autografata
Editore: Belhaven Press/Corporation of London,, 1992
Da: Chapter House Books (Member of the PBFA), Sherborne, Regno Unito
Membro dell'associazione: PBFA
Prima edizione
Condizione: UNSPECIFIED. 1st UK Edition. Hardback. Good plus in good plus, edge worn, scuffed and faded on spine, d/w. Spine slightly cocked and bumped, boards marked and dented, corners bumped, pages slightly yellowed, edge of pages nicked. Please email for exact postage quote and information on any available discounts.
Editore: Murray & Gee, Inc., Los Angeles, 1943
Da: Eel River Books, McKinleyville, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: USED_NEARFINE. Second Edition. 242 pages. Red cloth covers with bright gold lettering on spine. Illustrated dust jacket, not price-clipped with mild soiling and edge wear. Small edge chips to jacket. This is the story of the Spanish-American pioneer, Eugenio R. Plummer, who once owned over 900 acres in the heart of Los Angeles and Hollywood but who lost his estate to the incoming Americans. Black-and-white illustrations.
Editore: Belhaven Press, London & New York, 1992
ISBN 10: 1852932198 ISBN 13: 9781852932190
Da: David Bunnett Books, London, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
HARDCOVER. Condizione: NEW. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. 4to in black faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 168pp, maps, plans, photos and tables in text, index etc CONDITION: An extremely well preserved AS NEW unread copy in an AS NEW complete Dust Jacket ] ._ __. To see more of our books on London type DbbLONDON in the Keywords search box._We Ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.
Editore: Skipjack Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 1879535165 ISBN 13: 9781879535169
Da: Salish Sea Books, Bellingham, WA, U.S.A.
Condizione: USED_GOOD. Good+ in a Good++ dust jacket; Hardcover; Withdrawn library copy with the standard library markings; Dust jacket is moderately edgeworn with one closed edge-tear, but is overall clean and intact, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Moderate wear to the boards; Library stamps to endpapers; Text pages clean & unmarked; Good binding with straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75" - 11.75" tall); 2.3 lbs; Blue dust jacket with photo of wrought iron items, and title in white lettering; 1999, Skipjack Press; 244 pages; "Colonial Wrought Iron: The Sorber Collection," by Don Plummer, et al.
Ulteriori offerte da altri venditori AbeBooks
Nuovo - A partire da EUR 464,41
Usato - A partire da EUR 139,33
Scopri anche Rilegato
Editore: SkipJack Press, Ocean Pines, 1999
Da: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: USED_VERYGOOD. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Ocean Pines, SkipJack Press, 1999. Quarto, xii, 244 pages extensively illustrated. Cloth lightly sunned; an excellent copy with the near-fine dustwrapper. 'This book has been inspired by the collection of James C. Sorber of West Chester, Pennsylvania. It is the culmination of a lifetime of selective collecting of wrough iron pieces with a specific focus on signed and dated items from Pennsylvania and the Northeastern states' (from the introduction).
Editore: Ocean Pines, MD:Skipjack Press, 1999
Da: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: SNEAB
Prima edizione
hard cover. Condizione: USED_VERYGOOD. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Ocean Pines, MD:Skipjack Press. (1999). 1st edition. xii+244pp. Illustrated. Signed on title page by Author and owner of collection. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book in very good condition. End-pages are slightly age-toned but otherwise free of previous owenrs marks or signatures.The dust jacket is lightly edgeworn, with a small tear along the top edge of the front panel, otherwise in very good condition. .