EARLY PRINTING IN SAINT VINCENT. THE ISLAND'S FIRST PRINTERS AND THEIR WORK. WITH A LIST OF SAINT VINCENT IMPRINTS, 1767-1834. By GREGORY FROHNSDORFF. With A Foreword By Donald N.Mott. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. FIRST EDITION. 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 120 pages. Bound in blue cloth with gilt stamping. Printed on acid free paper. Illustrated in black and white. A much needed and landmark publication regarding the history of printing on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent. The publishe ...click for details
BOOK. OCRACOKE. BY CARL GOERCH. DRAWINGS BY PRIMROSE. Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair, publisher. First published in 1956 - this is a fifth printing of 1968. A MINT COPY IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL DUST JACKET. 8vo. Bound in beige cloth with pictorial stamping in tan. Illustrated with numerous black and white drawings by Primrose McPherson Paschal. The author's "informal and chatty" account of life on the island of Ocracoke in the outer banks of North Carolina.
RECORDS OF A FAMILY OF ENGINEERS. By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. London: Chatto & Windus, 1912. 8vo. Original black cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. A history and account of the renowned Stevenson family by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), author of "A Child's Garden of verses", "Kidnapped", "Treasure Island", etc. and grandson of Robert Stevenson (1772-1850), builder of the BELL ROCK Lighthouse and numerous other lighthouses around the coast of ...click for details
