Pennsylvania: Montgomery County

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1929. Burgundy cloth, front panel cartouche and spine panel lettering in gilt. xv,251 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. 4th ptg.: Oct. 1930. Former owner bookplate on front pastedown. Light shelf wear, nearly as issued. Former owner signature in pencil on front flyleaf, endpapers a bit toned. Author's first book to focus on the Pennsylvania German folklore of which he wrote so eloquently. Highly recommended.. Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1929. Burgundy cloth, front panel cartouche and spine panel lettering in gilt. xv,251 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. 3rd ptg.: Feb. 1930. Modest shelf wear, light spotting near top edge of front panel, spine panel unevenly toned with title lettering partially rubbed away. Author's first book to focus on the Pennsylvania German folklore of which he wrote so eloquently. Highly recommended.. Cloth. VG+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Philadelphia & London: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930. Dark green cloth, front panel cartouche and spine panel lettering in gilt. xiii,366 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. 2nd ptg.: Dec. 1930. Modest shelf wear, a few light surface marks. Endpapers and interior lightly toned but otherwise fully intact.. Second Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: H. C. Kinsey and Company, 1942. Tan 1/4 cloth, salmon cloth. Light edge wear. Dust jacket now in Brodart sleeve shows loss at both spine extremities, top rear corner, and portions of title along top front edge.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Philadelphia & London: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930. Dark green cloth, front panel cartouche and spine panel lettering in gilt. xiii,366 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. 3rd ptg.: Jan. 1931. A few light surface marks to cloth. Small strip of paper loss to front flyleaf where a former owner signature has been excised.. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Philadelphia & London: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930. Dark green cloth, front panel cartouche and spine panel lettering in gilt. xiii,366 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. 3rd ptg.: Jan. 1931. Light shelf wear. Lacks front flyleaf; front hinge starting, else fully intact interior.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Allentown, PA: Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, 1936. Complete set of the publications of the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society. 28 volumes, uniformly bound as issued in natural linen, lettered, decorated, and/or illustrated in red, deckled edges, many volumes illustrated with decorative head- and tail-pieces and/or b&w plates (occasional color). Single-owner collection of the late Carl D. Snyder of New Tripoli, Lehigh County, PA, with his signature on front flyleaf of most volumes. All volumes at least VG, showing perhaps lightly soiled bindings or sunned spine panels, most with only light handling wear (Near Fine), some virtually as issued (Fine). A rare opportunity to secure the entire series. Abbreviated contents list for each volume follows; most volumes also contain introductory material, listing of officers, reports, necrologies. CONTENTS: (1) Drauss un Deheem (Ziegler, intro. Reichard) / The House of the Miller on the Millbach: Architecture, Arts and Crafts of the Pennsylvania Germans (Drowns) / Pennsylvania German Galleries, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Drowns) / List of German Immigrants to American Colonies from Zweibrücken in Palatinate 1728-49 (Hinke and Stoudt) / Pennsylvania Folk Art Exhib, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 21-23 May 1936 [1936]; (2) Consider The Lilies How They Grow: An Interpretation of the Symbolism of Pennsylvania German Folk Art (Stoudt) [1937]; (3) Gezwitscher: Pennsylvania German Dialect Verse (Birmelin, intro. Barba) / Early Marriage Customs of Moravian Congregation in Bethlehem (Beckel) / Notices by German Settlers in German Newspapers (Eyster, transl.) / Conestoga Wagons and their Ornamental Ironing (Kinzer) [1938]; (4) En Quart Millich un En Halb Beint Raahm (Iobst) / Letters of Congratulations to Gov. Robert Hunter Morris, in 1754, by German Protestant Freeholders, and an Anti-Franklin Broadside / Lewis Miller, Pennsylvania German Folk Artist (Barba) [1939]; (5) Indian Names of Streams, Rivers and Places [NJ, PA, MD, VA] (Heckewelder, intro. Ziegler) / Ephrata Printing Press (Ziegler) / Of Months and Days (Fogel) / PA German Folk Culture, Its Value in Modern Education (Connor) [1940]; (6) Christmas Putz of Pennsylvania Germans (Nitzsche) / Early Christmases in Bethlehem PA (1742-1756) / Christmas Poetry of "Pennsylvania Dutch" / Twelvetide (Fogel) / Moravian Christmas Putz (Myers) [1941]; (7) Bucks County Hist. Soc. (Mann) / Schwenkfelder Hist. Library (Johnson) / PA State Museum (Bitner) / Berks County Hist. Soc. (Clemens) / Hershey Mus. (Light) / Landis Valley Mus. (Reichman) / Lancaster Rifles (Landis) [1942]; (8) Conrad Weiser: Pennsylvania Peacemaker (Graeff) [1943]; (9) Storm Blown Seed of Schorarie (Lichtenthaeler) / Lancaster Rifle Accessories (Landis) / PA German Versammlinge (Kemp) [1944]; (10) Influence of Pennsylvania Dutch in Middle West (Ludwig) / Emigrants from Wuerttemberg: Adolf Gerber Lists (Yoder) [1945]; (11) PA Germans in Ontario, Canada (Graeff) / Coppersmithing in PA (Kauffman) / Lexical Differences Between 4 PA German Regions (Seifert) [1946]; (12) Am Schwarze Baer (Moll) / PA German Pioneers from County of Wertheim (Langguth/Yoder) [1947]; (13) Coverlets of the PA Germans (Reinert) / Linguistic Variations in PA German Dialect (Buffington) [1948]; (14) Mysticism in German Devotional Literature of Colonial Pennsylvania (Stoeffler) [1949]; (15) PA German Wills (Gilbert) / Humorous Tales (ed. Barba) [1950]; (16) Later Poems of John Birmelin (Birmelin) / PA German Folklore--An Interpretation (Stoudt) / German Immigrants...from Zweibruecken in Palatinate 1750-71 (Krebs) /18th-Century Emigrants from...Schaffhausen 1734-52 (Yoder) [1951]; (17) Ephrata As Seen by Contemporaries (Reichmann and Doll) [1952]; (18) Pennsylvania German Tombstones: Study in Folk Art (Barba) [1953]; (19) Henry Meyer: Early PA German Poet (Buffington) / Saga of PA Germans in Wisconsin (Dundore) [1954]; (20) PA German Poetry 1685-1830 (Stoudt) [1955]; (21) Pennsylvania German Barns (Dornbusch) [1956]; (22) Marriage By Lot: A Novel Based on Moravian History (Nitzsche) [1957]; (23) Fraktur-Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts of the Pennsylvania Germans (Shelley) [1958-59], in scarce original dust jacket; (24) Amish Today: An Analysis of Their Beliefs, Behavior and Contemporary Problems (Smith) [1960]; (25) Ephrata: A History (Ernst) [1961]; (26) Pennsylvania Germans of Shenandoah Valley (Smith, Stewart and Kyger) [1962]; (27) Pennsylvania German Grammar (Buffington and Barba) [1963]; (28) Pennsylvania German Folk Art: An Interpretation (Stoudt) [1966].. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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