Miller Philadelphia Stories

Morris Vogel, Fredric Miller, Allen Davis: Philadelphia Stories: A Photographic History, 1920-1960, ISBN: 0877225516

Philadelphia Stories is a kind of family album. As in their earlier volume, Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940, Miller, Vogel, and Davis have collected photographs of ordinary... Format: Hardcover Condition: New

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Irving, Washington. BIOGRAPHY AND POETICAL REMAINS OF THE LATE MARGARET MILLER DAVIDSON. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1841. 1841

2nd ed of 1st ed, 1841. Size: 6x8. [vii, 359p, adverts] (A short biography of a girl in New York dying before age sixteen in 1838, who caught the attention of Irving & others because of her precocious ability in the area of poetry & short stories, & her religious faith, making use of personal correspondence written by her & her mother, to which is added her poems & stories.) Dark brown cloth hardboards with gold emblem & design stamped into covers & gold lettering on spine, covers lightly scuffed, spine ends chipped 3/8 & 1/4 inch, torn spine edges repaired using pva, corners & lower & upper edges almost entirely worn through cloth, page ends browned, yellow end papers very soiled & stained in centre area, old public library bookplate over previous bookplate & staining on front pastedown, & old pocket on back pastedown, pages very good though faintly browned & occasional brown spot or smudge especially on title & half-title pages, tight binding & unmarked text, GOOD 1st Edition Hardcover

[SW: CHRBIOG CHRISTIAN RELIGION POETRY AMERICAN]

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Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay): Life's Crosses and How to Meet Them, Edinburgh Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell 1889 ; fester Einband / hard cover
Very Good Lawson

224pp Inc b&w frontispiece and other illustrations and 16pp publisher's catalogue. - This is the "Girl's Own Library" edition. It's a collection of essays and short stories, morality tales, if you will. <BR>Timothy Shay Arthur, was a mostly self-educated American author, born in New York in 1809, he died in Philadelphia in 1885. A prolific writer of "tales of domestic life", according to the Globusz Publishing Web site, he co-authored (with W. H. Carpenter) a series of histories of the different states of the union, the Globusz site notes. <BR>"The entire number of volumes of Mr. Arthur's works exceeds one hundred, and of these more than half have been republished in England, where his writings have had a large circulation." His are morality tales and many support the temperance cause. <BR> One of his most popular books, according to an essay by Jon Miller, University of Akron, at the Alcoholic Anonymous Bibliography Website was, "<B><I> Ten Nights in a Bar-Room </B></I> (1854 later adapted as a stage play and movie), the <B><I>Uncle Tom's Cabin</B></I> of the antebellum temperance movement. [It] describes the "consequences of tavern-keeping" with a photographic vividness. Arthur treats the modern reader to a slice of life in a typical 19th century tavern, describing the people, the furnishings, and the day-to-day operation of a busy tavern that serves the public with a stage house, a bar-room, a restaurant, and numerous rooms to rent by the night, week, or month." <BR> Covers (blue cloth with black and gilt titles and floral motif to front and sunned spine) has bevelled edges, is slightly worn and rubbed. Text block is clean and tight except for some spotting throughout the prelims and inked out owner's name to FPDP No Jacket Decorative Cloth 5 x 7 1/2"

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Miller, Fredric M.; Vogel, Morris J. and Davis, Allen F. Philadelphia Stories. A Photographic History, 1920-1960, Philadelphia Temple Univ. Press (l988) ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover ISBN: 0877225516
0877225516 Numerous b&w photos

Large octavo,, 319pp., Fine in Fine- dust jacket Dust Jacket Included Hardcover

[SW: PHILADELPHIA URBAN STUDIES PENNSYLVANIA PHOTOGRAPHY ISBN: 0877225516]

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