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Auchincloss, Kenneth NEW YORK REVISITED
Illustrations by Gaylord Schanilec. New York The Grolier Club 2002 7.5 x 11.5 inches hardcover, slipcase 44 pages
In 1915, The Grolier Club published New York with color wood engravings by Rudolph Ruzicka. That book evoked the city in a period of rapid, remarkable change. In New York Revisited, Ken Auchincloss traces the evolution of New York in the twentieth century. Along with the city's enormous physical and social transformations, up to and including the events of September 11, 2001, Ken conveys the continuity of spirit and character of the "New York accent."

Two-and-a half years in the making, New York Revisited is illustrated by Gaylord Schanilec, the foremost contemporary artist in color wood engraving. The engravings include the Empire State building, Chrysler Building from Lexington Avenue, 230 Park Avenue, Grand Central subway station, White Horse Tavern, Times Square, the World Trade Center (vignette), and Strawberry Fields.

One of 250 signed and numbered copies, designed and printed by the artist at his press, Midnight Paper Sales.
Price: $ 500.00 other currencies Order nr. 106646

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Bell, Hazel K. FROM FLOCK BEDS TO PROFESSIONALISM: A HISTORY OF INDEX-MAKERS
With a Preface by David Crystal New Castle, Delaware and Hatfield, Hertfordshire Oak Knoll Press and HKB Press 2008 6 x 9 inches Hardcover, dust jacket. 348 pages
First edition. "Indexing is an anonymous profession. An index may be praised or blamed, but rarely is the indexer named, lauded or shamed," laments Professor David Crystal in his preface to From Flock Beds to Professionalism. This book, however, initiates a change. Hazel Bell presents here brief biographies of 65 individual practitioners, the makers of indexes, from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, considering their working methods, techniques, training, remuneration, their lives and their personalities. Crystal observes, "Although it is the history of indexing which governs the structure of the book, it is the personalities of the indexers themselves which shine through it ... I was unprepared for the range, diversity and sheer brilliance of the personalities lying behind the names." After the biographical section on the "Lone Workers," Bell outlines in "Banding Together" the history of groups and societies of indexers world-wide up to 1995, the year she sees as entailing the end of print-only indexing. The book includes photographs of indexers and of their tokens of recognition. Hazel Bell has been a freelance indexer since 1964, having compiled to date more than 700 indexes to books and journals, and won the Wheatley Medal for an outstanding index in both 2005 and 2006. She has been a member of the Society of Indexers for 44 years, serving on its Council as editor of its journal, The Indexer, for 18 of them. In 1997, she was presented by the Society with the Carey Award for services to indexing. She has written many articles for The Indexer and other learned journals. Bell is the author of Indexers and Indexes in Fact and Fiction (British Library/University of Toronto Press, 2001) and Indexing Biographies and Other Stories of Human Lives (Society of Indexers, 3rd edition 2004). Co-published with HKB Press.

Sales rights: Worldwide except in the UK; available in the UK from HKB Press.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 96599

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Benson, Barbara E. and Carol E. Hoffecker NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE: A WALK THROUGH TIME.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2011 7 x 10 inches paperback 240 pages
New Castle, Delaware: A Walk Through Time traces the evolution of one town from its seventeenth-century settlement to the leafy, beautiful, and well-preserved small city of today. The historic arc begins in the conflicts of European exploration and colony building that pitted the Netherlands against Sweden and then Great Britain. New Castle slowly developed under the flags of those three countries from a small settlement of wood into Delaware's jewel-like brick colonial capital. Today New Castle has retained its beautiful historic town center, with outstanding examples of colonial and federal architecture that surround its preserved village center, called the Green, which dates back to Peter Stuyvesant.

Yet New Castle is more than a town frozen in the Colonial and Federal eras, for its history continued through time to mirror the economic opportunities and challenges of an expanding nation. Railroad, factories, and automobiles brought expansion that trans-formed it from its role as a county seat into a small industrial city. Neighborhoods east and west of the town center developed to house the shopkeepers, factory workers, owners, and managers brought by industrialization. Those neighborhoods remain today as the physical examples of changing architectural styles and evolving standards of urban planning and preservation.

The New Castle of today presents a work-in-progress. It continues to evolve as a twenty-first-century city while protecting the historic fabric of its long, rich past. New Castle, Delaware: A Walk through Time is heavily illustrated with maps, drawings, and photographs that visually illuminate the city's past and present.

Barbara E. Benson, Ph.D., Indiana University, 1976, retired from the Historical Society of Delaware as executive director in 2003. At the Society, she oversaw the collection, exhibition, education, and publication programs as well as the protection of the organization's eight historic properties, including the George Read II House and Gardens in New Castle. Dr. Benson currently chairs the New Castle County Historic Review Board.

Carol E. Hoffecker, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1967, retired from the faculty of the University of Delaware in 2003 as Richards Professor of History and Alison Professor. In a career focused on the history of Delaware, she has written numerous books and articles that explore many aspects of the state, its government, its people, and its economy. Her two volumes on the history of Wilmington, Delaware, continue to provide perspective on the connection of urban and industrial development.

In addition to New Castle, Delaware, A Walk through Time, Dr. Benson and Dr. Hoffecker have collaborated on several projects in Delaware history, ranging from an expert report submitted by the State of Delaware to the Supreme Court of the United States in State of New Jersey v. State of Delaware (2008) to a textbook about the state entitled The Delaware Adventure.
Price: $ 24.95 other currencies Order nr. 106155

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Bialostocki, Jan LIVRES DE SAGESSE ET LIBRES DE VANITÉS
Pour une Symbolique du Livres dans l'Art N.P. Éditions des Cendres, Institut d'étude du livre (1993) large 8vo. paper-covered boards, paper label on spine and top board 73, (5) pages
Text in French. Limited to an edition of 999. Traces the appearance and symbolism of books from fourteenth-century statues of saints to the work of Vincent van Gogh in the nineteenth century. Essay translated by Christiane F. Kopylov. Preface by François Dupuigrenet Desroussilles. Illustrated in black-and-white throughout.
Price: $ 34.00 other currencies Order nr. 94600

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(Billias, George Athan) Klein, Milton M., Richard D. Brown and John B. Hench (editors). REPUBLICAN SYNTHESIS REVISITED.
Edited by Milton M. Klein, Richard D. Brown, John B. Hench. Worcester American Antiquarian Society 1992 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 165 pages.
Essays by Isaac Kramnick, Robert E. Shalhope, Lance Banning, Peter S. Onuf, Cathy Matson, and Gordon S. Wood. With a biographical sketch of this historian.
Price: $ 19.95 other currencies Order nr. 42177

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(Capri) Furchheim, Friedrich BIBLIOGRAPHIE DER INSEL CAPRI.
(Mansfield Centre Martino Publishing n.d. but 2002) 8vo. cloth vii, (i), 171, (5) pages
Facsimile reprint of the second and revised edition first published in Leipzig by Otto Harrassowitz in 1916 (Besterman 1135). The Isle of Capri has had a rich history from the time it first caught the eye of Octavian, the future Emperor Augustus. Its present day success as a tourist destination began with the acknowledgement and enhancement of its ancient monuments. Furchheim describes 1500 titles in the 1916 edition, which is recognized as the best work on the subject.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 69595

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Christoph, Peter R. DELAWARE UNDER THE NEW YORK GOVERNORS, 1664-1682.
Radnor Peter Alrich Foundation 1992 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 10 pages.
With a reproduction of the people present at the 1990 Peter Alrich family reunion.
Price: $ 4.50 other currencies Order nr. 35427

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Coakley, J.F. THE TYPOGRAPHY OF SYRIAC: A HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF PRINTING TYPES, 1537-1958.
New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2006 7 x 10 inches hardcover 272 pages
Syriac, a dialect of the ancient Aramaic language, has a remarkable Christian literature spanning a thousand years from the fourth to the thirteenth century, including important versions of the Bible. It remains the liturgical language of several churches in the Middle East, India, and the west, and 'Modern Syriac' is a vernacular still in use today. It is no wonder that this language has a long and rich printing history. The challenge of conveying the beautiful cursive Syriac script, in one or another of its three varieties, was taken up by many well-known type-designers in the letterpress era, from Robert Granjon in the sixteenth century to the Monotype and Linotype corporations in the twentieth, as well as by many lesser-known ones. This study records and abundantly illustrates no fewer than 129 different Syriac types, using archival documents, type-specimens, and the often scattered evidence of the print itself. The Typography of Syriac will be of interest not only to scholars of Middle Eastern languages and scripts but also to all historians of type and printing.
J. F. Coakley is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and on the staff of Houghton Library, at Harvard University. His private press, the Jericho Press, occasionally makes use of Syriac and other exotic types.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 91843

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Cooper, Constance J. (Editor) 350 YEARS OF NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE
New Castle New Castle Historical Society and Cedar Tree Books 2010 8vo. cloth, dust jacket xvi, 206, (2) pages.
First edition. A chronological history of the town of New Castle with illustrations.
Price: $ 29.95 other currencies Order nr. 106339

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Cooper, Constance J. ROCKFORD TOWER.
Wilmington The Cedar Tree Press 1992 8vo. cloth. xi, 24+(1) pages.
Second printing, limited to 500 copies, and containing a new one page preface to this printing. The first printing was issued in 1990 and was limited to 800 copies. Introduction by Nicholas L. Cerchio III. Illustrated history of this Wilmington water tower. Reproduces a Robert Shaw etching.
Price: $ 14.95 other currencies Order nr. 68577

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Cruz, Laura THE PARADOX OF PROSPERITY: THE LEIDEN BOOKSELLERS' GUILD AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF BOOKS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE.
With a Foreword by Jan de Vries New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2009 6 x 9 inches hardcover, dust jacket 256 pages
First edition. In The Paradox of Prosperity, Laura Cruz explores the world of the book trades as it was constructed in Leiden in the decades after the Revolt against Spanish rule. She traces the migration of printers from the Southern Netherlands to Leiden and observes how they congregated within the city and sought contracts with the city's new university. But this is only the beginning of a multifaceted analysis of the development of a market-driven industry that eventually is organized under the protective umbrella of a guild. And this guild, in turn, is something other than the traditional guilds of medieval origins. Rather than a bulwark against market forces, the guild of the printers was an instrument to exercise market power. This book offers a fresh look at the role of an institution that is often dismissed, even in the early modern period, as a relic of an earlier time.

Leiden's book trade was unique, exhibiting a specific quality that calls for a specific explanation. Laura Cruz addresses this historical specificity, but goes a step further. Leiden publishing emerged as an industry with a European scope and with national and international competitors. Distinguishing the particular from the general and the accidental or providential from the systematic forces at play within early modern European society is an historian's duty, but one that is often neglected. Savoring the particular is often thought to be enough, indeed, to be the only real purpose of history. Laura Cruz goes further, harnessing her rich historical material to the methods of economic and social history. From this vantage point, she addresses questions that give new insights to the culture of the young Republic that are based not only on the thoughts and dreams of individuals, but also on the behavior and aspirations of groups and the constraints and opportunities presented by institutions.

Laura Cruz is an Associate Professor of History at Western Carolina University. She earned her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 2001. Her publications include multiple articles on book markets, social networking and death practices in the seventeenth-century Netherlands. She currently serves as the President of the Society for Netherlandic History and the book review editor for the journal Itinerario.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 96671

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(Cyprus) Cobham, Claude Delaval EXCERPTA CYPRIA, MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF CYPRUS WITH AN APPENDIX ON THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CYPRUS.
(Mansfield Centre, CT Martino Publishing 2001) 8vo. cloth (vi), 523+(1) pages
Reprint of title originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1908. (Besterman 1550). Three centuries of Ottoman rule, characterized by the almost complete spiritual and cultural isolation of Cyprus from Europe, let the country fall into a state of economic, social and cultural decline. In 1878, Cyprus was handed over to Great Britain, although this was still a time of harsh exploitation of the Cypriots. This volume is a collection of papers printed between 1892 and 1895 as a supplement to the Owl, a newspaper published in Nicosia, the capital. Cobham collected and translated these papers in an effort to provide materials for a history of Cyprus. The end of the book is a bibliography with approximately 1000 titles on the subject. Index.
Price: $ 90.00 other currencies Order nr. 64874

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de Dampierre, Jacques ESSAI SUR LES SOURCES DE L'HISTOIRE DES ANTILLES FRANÇAISES (1492-1664)
Mansfield Centre Martino Publishing 2004 tall 8vo. cloth. [v], xl, 239 pages.
Facsimile reprint of the original 1904 edition (See Besterman 6526-6527). The French Antilles form two French overseas provinces (Départements), one being the island of Martinique, the other Guadeloupe. The French half of the island of St. Maarten/St. Martin is part of Guadeloupe.
The first inhabitants several hundred years before Christ were the Arawaks, an Indian tribe. They became extinct around the 9th century at the hands of the Karibs. Columbus's fleet landed on Guadeloupe on November 3, 1493. The Spanish showed little interest in the island, which they though inhospitable, and, as a consequence, the first settlers were French farmers, mostly from Normandie, the Bretagne or the Charente. Farming was not profitable at first, so the island was sold to Charles Houel, who started the economic growth of the island with plantations of sugar, coffee and cocoa. Later, the island was owned by the Compagnie des Indes, then by King Louis XIV. The island survived attacks by the Dutch and was also occupied by the British.
During the 18th century, it was a haven for buccaneers and residents of the Caribbean islands lived mostly by attacking and looting foreign cargo.
This early bibliography is one of the most extensive on French possessions in the Caribbean and has never been reprinted previously. 1000 items are described.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 78383

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Dodd, Robin FROM GUTENBERG TO OPEN TYPE
An Illustrated History of Type form the Earliest Letterforms to the Latest Digital Fonts Vancouver Hartley & Marks (2006) square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 192 pages
A history of typography, typographers, and printing with 290 illustrations. A very interesting new book.
Price: $ 29.95 other currencies Order nr. 93283

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Howgego, Raymond John ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXPLORATION 1800 to 1850
A comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel and colonization from 1800 to 1850. (Potts Point, NSW, Australia) Hordern House Rare Books Pty. Ltd (2004) 4to. cloth, color dust jacket. xii, 690 pages
First edition. Reference for the history of world exploration, travel and colonization from 1800 to 1850. Combines historical, biographical and bibliographical information. Contains a catalogue of all known expeditions, including biographical information about the travelers themselves. Companion to Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800.
Price: $ 245.00 other currencies Order nr. 78870

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Howgego, Raymond John ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXPLORATION 1850 to 1940 (Oceans, Islands and Polar Regions)
The Oceans, Islands and Polar Regions. A comprehensive guide to exploration and travel beyond the temperate mainlands to the oceans, islands and polar regions, 1850 to 1940. (Potts Point, NSW, Australia) Hordern House Rare Books Pty. Ltd (2006) 4to. cloth, color dust jacket. 724 pages
First edition. Reference for the history of exploration and travel beyond the temperate mainlands to the oceans, islands, and polar regions, 1850 to 1940. Contains 521 major articles which continue to chronicle the history of exploration, travel, and colonization into the twentieth century. The index provides access to nearly 3000 travelers while the bibliographies cite more than 14,000 works of reference. There are numerous cross-references and every entry is supplemented by a comprehensive bibliography of both primary and secondary sources. Companion to Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800 and Encyclopedia of Exploration 1800 to 1850.
Price: $ 245.00 other currencies Order nr. 93407

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Howgego, Raymond John ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXPLORATION PART 4: 1850 TO 1940. (CONTINENTAL EXPLORATION)
(Potts Point, NSW, Australia) Hordern House Rare Books Pty. Ltd (2008) 4to. cloth, color dust jacket. 1047 pages
First edition. A comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel and colonization in Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas from 1850 to the early decades of the twentieth century.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 97792

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Howgego, Raymond John ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXPLORATION TO 1800.
A comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel and colonization from the earliest times to the year 1800. (Potts Point, NSW, Australia) Hordern House Rare Books Pty. Ltd (2003) 4to. cloth, color dust jacket. xv, 1168 pages
First edition. Reference for the history of world exploration, travel and colonization until the year 1800. Combines historical, biographical and bibliographical information. Contains a catalogue of all known expeditions, including biographical information about the travellers themselves.
Price: $ 245.00 other currencies Order nr. 72393

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Kotowski, Bob PIE IN THE SKY: THE AUTHORIZED HISTORY OF PUNKIN CHUNKIN'
The Cedar Tree Press 2008 8vo paperback 144 pages
Punkin Chunkin has been a part of Delaware for over twenty years now and it is likely to continue for many more autumns. Who would have thought that a challenge to see who could throw a pumpkin the farthest would grow to be one of the largest events in our state, drawing tens of thousands of people to acres of corn fields in normally quiet slower Delaware?

Author Bob Kotowski has tirelessly researched this amazing phenomenon and provides you with the most definitive chronicle of Chunkin. We begin with a history of war machines to the day the hat was thrown down in 1986 to the present. Through the early rudimentary, homemade devices to the cannons that resemble artillery pieces, we are led step by step towards the ultimate questto be the first being to hurl a gourd a mile. It makes the Grail seem unimportant!

Heavily illustrated with many heretofore unpublished photographs and illustrations, Kotowskis work clears the air of myths and misinformation that has grown over twenty-two years. The facts are now revealed. If you want to know how it really started, it is here.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 105305

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Macray, W.D. MANUAL OF BRITISH HISTORIANS TO A.D. 1600 CONTAINING A CHRONOLOGICAL A CCOUNT OF THE EARLY CHRONICLES AND MONKISH WRITERS THEIR PRINTED WORKS AND UNPUBLISHED MSS.
Naarden Anton W. Van Bekhoven 1967 8vo. cloth. xxiii, 109 pages.
Reprint of the 1845 edition.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 25223

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(Maret, Russell) Maret, Russell MEDIÆVAL IN PADUA
New York City (Russell Maret) 2008 4to. stiff paper wrappers 25, (3), 10 plates, (2) pages
Limited to 226 copies. This is the first in a new series of occasional publications with the overarching name of Swan & Hoop which documents non-typographic letter forms. This volume focuses on the round gothic capital in Padua Italy. It was written, illustrated and printed letterpress in eight colors by Maret. It features a visual glossary of variant letter forms, a detailed structural analysis of round gothic, and a quire of photographic plates. This is also the first use of Russell Maret's new Baskerville typeface. Included is a letterpress printed announcement of the series which is a little larger than the publication, and a prospectus card for the book itself.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 100265

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McNinch, Marjorie G. BRIDGES.
Wilmington The Cedar Tree Press 1995 8vo. cloth. xiv, 105+(1) pages.
First edition, second printing, limited to 1000 copies. Illustrated history of the 26 covered bridges that used to exist in New Castle, Delaware. Cover illustration by William M. McCord and introduction by Nicholas L. Cerchio III.
Price: $ 24.95 other currencies Order nr. 75211

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McNinch, Marjorie G. FESTIVALS.
Wilmington The Cedar Tree Press (1996) 8vo. cloth. xvii, 122 pages.
First edition, second printing, limited to 800 copies. The first printing also occured in 1996 and was limited to 500 copies. Illustrated history of festivals in Delaware including the Italian and Greek festivals. Introduction by Nicholas L. Cerchio III. Signed by author.
Price: $ 24.95 other currencies Order nr. 46397

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Myers, Robin, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote (Editors) OWNERS, ANNOTATORS AND THE SIGNS OF READING
with The Publishing Pathways Series Cumulative Index New Castle, Delaware, and London, UK Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2005 8vo. cloth, dust jacket 248 pages with 40 b/w illustrations
Part of the Publishing Pathways Series. Reading, and the manifold signs of reading, have become one of the most dynamic areas of research in book history. The reader as consumer and owner, as well as participant in the construction of new meanings, is the subject of these original essays. Specialists in literature, art history and book history investigate the annotations, marginal marks, extra-illustration and other forms of evidence left by readers. Through an examination of the book as a physical object, the contributors provide a range of intriguing insights into the ways in which this internalized and ephemeral activity can be understood in the context of book-trade history. Available in the UK from The British Library.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 89478

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Rendle, Ellen NEW CASTLE COUNTY
Charleston Arcadia Publishing 2010 8vo paper wrappers 127 pages
Of Delaware's three counties, New Castle County is the smallest in area, even though two-thirds of Delaware's residents call it home. Aldous Huxley once mused that "the charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different." Certainly this is true of New Castle County. Images of America: New Castle County begins in 1875, as steamboats plied the waters of the Christina and Delaware Rivers and farmers worked the county's fertile farmland. Over the next 100 years, the population skyrocketed 400 percent, and suburban shopping centers and housing developments covered what had been farmland. By 1975, New Castle County boasted corporate giants, the world's largest twin-span bridge, and the stories of individuals as varied as DuPont family members; Emily Bissell, who introduced the Christmas Seal; and thousands of blue-collar workers making automobiles. New Castle County's history is as rich and colorful as the changing of the seasons and the imaginations of those who have lived here.

Author Bio: For more than 20 years, author Ellen Rendle has been the curator of the photograph collection at the Delaware Historical Society. It is her pleasure to share gems from the collection in this book.
Price: $ 21.99 other currencies Order nr. 104588

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