SYLVIA DUBOIS, A BIOGRAFY OF THE SLAV WHO WHIPT HER MISTRES AND GAND HER FREDOM by LARISON, C.W - 1988

Ringoes, NJ: Fonic Publishing Hous, 1887. Pamphlet. 42p. staplebound pamphlet, ex-library, some corner chipping. Larison, an advocate of simplified and standardized spelling of the English language, provides samples. Marc Mappen described Larison in the NY Times as "a world-class eccentric, one of the most bizarre in the history of the Garden State.

C.W. Larison, 1883. Hardcover. Good. . Ex-library of Congress, no outer labeling. Fading to spine, general shelf wear. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.

Ringos, NJ: C.W. Larison, 1883. Cloth. Very Good +. A tight, very presentable copy of the 1883 1st edition. Solid and VG to VG+ in its chocolate-brown cloth, with decorative blindstamping to the panels and gilt-titling along the spine. Light rubbing and wear at the spine and along the panel edges. Internally, clean as could be, with no writing or markings of any kind. Engraved plates and maps throughout complementing Larison's very unusual text. A nice example of 19th century New Jersey geography -- and a nice piece of Americana.

510 Pages. Printed in the phonetic type.
This is a book of the author's reminiscences of teaching in Hunterdon County, NJ. The book's exterior has lightly worn areas on all four corners, worn spots at the upper right and left and lower right and left corners of the spine, some rubbing on the spine, and worn spots along the front cover. The interior book's main detriment is when bound, certain pages were omitted, specifically pages 105 - 112 and pages 281 - 288. Outside of this detriment, and some printer ink spots on a few pages, the book's interior has no further visible distractions/detriments and no visible extraneous markings. The bindings on this old book also remain tight and therefore are sound.
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Ringos, N.J.: C. W. Larison, Printer, 1883. First edition. Frontispiece and drawings in text. 292 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth, about fine. First edition. Frontispiece and drawings in text. 292 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Account of tours by Larison and students of his Academy of Science and Art to Pickle's Mountain and sites in Monmouth and Ocean counties. The tour of Central New Jersey includes notable descriptions of Monmouth Battlefield, Squan Beach, Barnegat Bay, Manasquan, Asbury Park, and Bay Head. Printed in Larison's own phonetic type, this work is an important early source on these communities of the Jersey shore.

Ringoes, N.J.: C.W. Larison, 1883. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Original brown cloth. 124, [6 ads] pp., two plates. Small owner label front pastedown, hinges neatly strengthened, modest wear at the extremities of the boards, very good. In effect a narrative, Dr. Larison visited the reportedly 116-year-old formerly enslaved woman in her hut in the mountains of Hunterdon County, New Jersey and took down her extraordinary life story in her own words (and in his own phonetic spelling). The plates picture Sylvia and her primitive hut. Sylvia, incidentally, lasted several more years. Larison was an eccentric who printed his own idiosyncratic books in an outbuilding on his property, using phonetic spelling, and distributed the books himself. A splendid and uncommon narrative.