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We Knapps Thought it Was Nice by (South Side Club) Knapp, Edward Spring - 1940

by (South Side Club) Knapp, Edward Spring

We Knapps Thought it Was Nice by (South Side Club) Knapp, Edward Spring - 1940

We Knapps Thought it Was Nice

by (South Side Club) Knapp, Edward Spring

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New York: Privately printed, 1940. First edition, number 192 of 200 copies for private distribution. Illustrated. 211 pp. Designed by T.M. Cleland and printed at the Marchbanks Press. 1 vols. 4to. Tan cloth, with paper label on spine. Fine. Family presentation inscription from the author's daughter on front flyleaf. First edition, number 192 of 200 copies for private distribution. Illustrated. 211 pp. Designed by T.M. Cleland and printed at the Marchbanks Press. 1 vols. 4to. Sport on Long Island before 'The Age of Speed'. Posthumously published family history and recollections of life at the Knapp family house in Bayshore. The second half of the book (pp. 90 on) is a substantial memoir of sporting on Long Island in the late 1880s and 1890s, including horse racing, angling, shooting quail and geese, and the South Side Club. Not in Wetzel, Bruns, Heller, or Biscotti
  • Bookseller James Cummins Bookseller US (US)
  • Format/Binding Illustrated. 211 pp. Designed by T.M. Cleland and printed at the Marchbanks Press. 1 vols. 4to
  • Book Condition Used - Tan cloth, with paper label on spine. Fine. Family presentation inscription from the author's daughter on front flyleaf
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition First edition, number 192 of 200 copies for private distribution
  • Publisher Privately printed
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1940
  • Keywords Angling | Hunting / Shooting | New York State
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Philatelic iconography,: Being illustrations of rare and unusual stamps, covers, and cancellations included in the Edward S. Knapp collections

by Knapp, Edward Spring

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Philatelic Research Laboratories, Inc, 1941-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1941 first edition, Philatelic Research Laboratories, Inc. (New York), 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches tall aqua faux leather hardcover, gilt lettering to spine, green stiff wraps bound in, copiously illustrated with photographs of philatelic rarities, 241 pp. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers, with slight bumping to the lower tips. Inside, very slight staining to lower margin of front cover bound in. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. Articles on Edward S. Knapp Collection also laid in. ~CC~ [2.5P] Edward Spring Knapp (1879-1940) was a noted collector of U.S. and Confederate postage stamps and an authority on postal history. His specialties were posted hotel covers and Confederate stamps. This work documents some of Knapp's collection offered for sale the year after his death.
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