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PETER L. MASI - books 413.367.2628 7am B 10pm my time PO BOX B [email protected] MONTAGUE MA 01351 11 CENTER ST (UPS - only) Catalog 214 B September 2011 – well – winters walk & summers run – this one no exception – august seems to fill & evaporate as the end of summer looms - furnace still off, dehumidifiers on - 4 cords of wood stacked for winter – weather platter continues – too hot, too dry, too wet, just right – garden is producing – been picking green & wax beans & cucumbers down the street – amethyst brook plot yielded mesclun mix, snow peas & beets, collards, arugula, zucchini, good crop of onions, basil - some pesto already frozen – corn, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, yellow squash, escarole coming on – pole bean plants heading skywards – winter squash plants covering the ground –should be set for food – rented a van & headed to Philadelphia late june - loaded zach’s belongings from his room in manayunk – checked out the mutter museum & had early dinner & headed back – zach came up for a few days – helped stack the wood – helped tune his bike – he headed back for 4-week orthopedic surgery rotation at Hahnemann hospital then to pittsburg for another at Allegheny – there now & loving it – turned 58 early august – dinner with edie at 111 in Greenwich – montague center old home days & papermania coincide this year – but both shrinking over time & old home days will be singular, not plural this year – no events on Friday nite – which used to be the entertainment for my annual neighborhood porch party – i’ll be in Hartford – goodbye porch party – hello papermania - mariab will meet in Shelburne falls in September & sponsor pioneer valley book & paper fair in Northampton on Sunday October 16 – when not cataloging or weeding get on my bike or in the pool or just jog over taylor hill – another basic mixed bag here – recent acquisitions from here & there & the end is not in sight . at your service – peter cover: item 61 1 (African-American) James Hardy Dillard, Thomas Jesse Jones, Charles Templeman Loram, Joseph Houldworth Oldham, Anson Phelps Stokes, Monroe Work. TWENTY YEAR REPORT of the PHELPS-STOKES FUND, 1911-1931, with a Series of Studies of Negro Progress & of Developments of Race Relations in the United States & Africa During the Period, & a Discussion of the Present Outlook. New York City: 1932. 127 pages. 10 x 7.5", printed wrapper. Wrap soiled, edges worn, text VG. Will of Caroline Phelps Stokes, Trustees, Staff, Work of Fund, Trends in Negro Education, Progress of Education & Race Relations in South, Interracial Cooperation, Relations between White & Black in Africa, &c. $50.00 2 (African-American) Patterson, Vivian; essays by Frederick Rudolph, Constance W. Glenn, Deborah Willis-Kennedy, Jeanne Zeidler, interview by Denise Ramzy & Katherine Fogg. CARRIE MAE WEEMS: The Hampton Project. First edition. Aperture, in association with Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 2000. 95 pages. Illustrated, some color, images of exhibition, reproductions of photographs of Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia by Frances Benjamin Johnston. 12 x 9", printed paper boards, dj. VG/VG. ISBN 0893819131. $15.00 3 (Agriculture) Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829. ELEMENTS of AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, in a Course of Lectures for the Board of Agriculture. With an appendix, containing a Series of Experiments to Test the Value of Grasses Cultivated in Great-Britain. Second American edition. To which is added Practical Remarks on Some of the Manures Mentioned in the Lectures. Hartford: Hudson & Co., Printers, 1819. viii,304 pages. 7.25 x 4.25", leather, red spine label, gold title & lines. Spine tip snagged, leather rubbed, little toned, VG. Shaw & Shoemaker 47795; Rink, Technical Americana 679. $75.00 4 (Agriculture) Fuller, Andrew S., Practical Horticulturist, Brooklyn, N.Y. THE GRAPE CULTURIST: A Treatise on the Cultivation of the Native Grape. Seventh thousand. NY: Orange Judd, 1866. Copyright 1864. 262 pages, 2pp publisher advertisement. 105 engravings, greenhouse, trained vines. 7.5 x 5", cloth. Cover edges chipped, frayed, cloth rubbed, soiled, margins damped, else G. Gabler, Wine into Words G21090. 'Thos Hassard, Burlington NJ., 1866' on pastedown. $25.00 5 (Agriculture) G.D. Howe, North Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. HOWE'S POTATO MANUAL for 1890. Northampton: Gazette Printing Co, 1890. 32 pages. Illustrations of potatoes, advertisements, Florida Spraying Pump, bicycle, sewing machines, telephone typewriter, Osgood Scale, Mount Warner Poultry Farm, Hoover Digger. 9.5 x 6", printed wrapper. Corner eaten, small losses, wrap soiled, fair. Potato Contest, Influence of Latitude, New Early Potato, Varieties, Novelties, Newspapers, Books, ads for fertilizers, &c. $15.00 6 (Agriculture) Warner, Charles Dudley; Henry Ward Beecher, introductory letter. MY SUMMER in a GARDEN. With illustrations by F.O.C Darley. Boston: James R. Osgood & Company, 1872. Copyright 1870. 186 pages. 12 plates. 6.75 x 5", gold & black stamped green cloth, edges gilt. Tips frayed, cloth rubbed, soiled, bit shaken, toned, G. Series of musings which appeared in the Hartford Courant. $15.00 7 (Americana) A REPORT of the EVIDENCE and POINTS of LAW, arising in The TRIAL of JOHN FRANCIS KNAPP, for the MURDER of JOSEPH WHITE, Esquire. Before the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; together with the Charge of His Honor Chief Justice Parker, to the Grand Jury, at the Opening of the Court. Salem edition. Salem: W. & S.B. Ives, 1830. 74 pages. Map, floorplan, engraving of club. 8.5 x 5.5", disbound. Removed, foxed, half-title detached, G. McDade, Annals of Murder, 567: first trial resulted in disagreement & later trial, Knapp hung; American Imprints 3286. $50.00 8 (Americana) APPENDIX to the REPORT on the TRIAL of JOHN FRANCIS KNAPP, on an INDICTMENT for MURDER, containing the New Evidence, the Arguments of Counsel, & the Charge of His Honor Judge Putnam,to the Jury, on the Second Trial. Salem edition. 1830. 72 pages. 8.5 x 5.5", disbound. Removed, foxed, G. McDade, Annals of Murder 562: murderer Richard Crowninshield committed suicide, accomplice Frank Knapp tried as principal, second trial resulted in conviction & execution, followed by brother Joseph Knapp, George Crowninshield saved by female alibi. $75.00 9 (Americana) [Morison, John Hopkins, 1808-1896]. MEMOIR of ROBERT SWAIN. Boston: James Munroe & Company, 1847. Copyright 1846. 259 pages. 6.25 x 4.25", purple cloth, gold spine title, blind paneled boards. Tips frayed, paper toned, else VG. Letters & journal extracts. Born New Bedford, 1823, delicate constitution, moved to Naushon Island, hip trouble, confined with splint, trip to Santa Cruz, broken leg, entered Phillips Exeter Academy, 1839, Harvard University, 1841, to St. Michael's Island, 1842, health deteriorates, leaves for South, letters from Baltimore, Savannah, St. Augustine, Picolata, FL, Warm Springs, NC, Abington, VA, Red Sulphur Springs, died Harrisonburg, VA, 1844. Funeral sermon by Ephraim Peabody. Sabin 50712. $35.00 10 (Americana) Aaberg, Gwendolyn M. The R. F. D.(Rural Free Delivery): Golden Jubilee 1896-1946. Copyright 1946. 160 pages. Halftone plates of Postmaster General William L. Wilson, Robert E. Hannegan, National Rural Letter Carriers' Association officers, delivery by horse, carriage, car, mud, snow, mailboxes. 8 x 5.5", gold stamped blue cloth, no dj. Cover bit soiled, library rubberstamp & pocket, else VG/none. $10.00 11 (Americana) Arthur W. Vanek & Jaroslav E.S. Vojan, editors; Souvenir Program Committee, compilers. FIRST ALL-SLAVIC SINGING FESTIVAL given by UNITED SLAVIC CHORAL SOCIETIES, Sunday, December 9, 1934 at the Chicago Civic Opera House, Chicago, Illinois, Representing Czechoslovakia (Czechs & Slovaks), Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Yugoslavia (Croats, Serbians & Slovenes), 1500 Singers. (Souvenir program book). 136 pages. Portraits of officers, Slavic leaders, singing groups, many advertisements by Slavic politicians, businesses, some illustrated. 10.5 x 7.5", printed wrapper. Spine tips nicked, sheet pulled from staples, slight crease, bit rubbed, VG. $35.00 12 (Americana) Barnes, Harry Elmer. GRAFT, CORRUPTION and INCOMPETENCE in CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRACY. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, no date, ca 1930. 45 pages, 16pp publisher advertisements. 8.5 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Tanned, G. Development of Political Party, Party Government in US, Abuses in Party System, Reform Efforts, Pork & Politics, Federal Manger, Challenge of War, Rise & Fall of Democratic Government. $15.00 13 (Americana) Bates, Joseph; abridged & edited by C.C. Crisler. LIFE of JOSEPH BATES: An Autobiography. Washington, D.C.: Review & Herald Publishing Assn, copyright, 1927. 224 pages. Illustrated. 8 x 5", gold lettered blue cloth, no dj. Owner names, VG/none. Kaplan, American Autobiographies 344 (1868), born New Bedford, 1792, sailor, ship captain, Millerite, vegetarian, influenced James & Ellen G. White, Seventh-day Adventist Church, died Battle Creek, 1872. $15.00 14 (Americana) Burton, Rev. Warren, Wilton, New Hampshire, 1800-1866; edited by Clifton Johnson, Hadley, Massachusetts. The DISTRICT SCHOOL AS IT WAS, by One Who Went to It. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1897. xii,171 pages, (16)pp facsimiles of pages from old spellers. Illustrated. 7.25 x 4.5", gold & green stamped grey cloth. Cover lightly soiled, rubbed, text trifle toned, G. Fictional description of New England school life first published in 1833. $15.00 15 (Americana) Clark, Sterling B.F.; Ella Sterling Mighels, comment; James D. Phelan,