Search Results: Pennsylvania Germans

New York: Vantage Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Poor. Signed. **SIGNED/INSCRIBED**on front pastedown. Burgundy boards with gilt titling on spine. Ends of spine and corners show wear. Adhesive residue on front from attempted tape repair by former owner to dustjacket. DJ marked in pen under author's name, ""classmate at Easton High."" Interior clean and unmarked. Binding is solid. From endflap: ""Here is a richly authentic picture of the lives of Pennsylcania Dutch families in the 1870s and 1880s, a work of fiction that vividly re-creates all the atmosphere and color and feeling of a way of life now vanished from the American scene.""

Lancaster: Pennsylvania German Society, 1966,. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. Seventy-fifth Anniversary Volume of the Pennsylvania German Society, Octavo, red cloth covers, 619 pages. Illustrated with 133 photographic reproductions. A little foxing at top edge of book block, still very good. No dust jacket, if issued. 041407A Genealogy, Immigration.

Harrisburg: Mt. Pleasant Press, Harrisburg: 1916. Octavo. v, 324 pages + reviews.  Dark maroon cloth; gilt-lettering dulled, without scarce dustwrapper. Neatly-written handwritten note about the author mounted to front pastedown; very good. Pattee's novel, gothic Americana, was first published by Henry Holt in 1905. This is the second edition and self-described "author's edition" that was subsequently followed in 1924 by a "Penn State Edition." From a review within: "A delightful story of life among the mountains of Pennsylvania.. The life that a group of Pennsylvania Dutch led in a valley among the Seven Hills is indeed interesting. Their peculiar institutions, their butcherings, their schnittings, their applebutterings, and their flittings are entertaining, as well as instructive, and, carry the reader to another world. The story tells of the squire, a sort of feudal lord. his enemies, his fate, and how his daughter, 'one little girl, standing all alone, did what her heart said was right.' It also… Read More

Philadelphia: Gedruckt und zu finden bey G. und D. Billmeyer, 1814. 94, [3], 96-118pp. 12mo. Contemporary sheep-backed marbled paper boards. Worn at corners, minor staining to the front endpapers. bcj 322789. German language, juvenile edition Heidelberg Catechism of the German Reformed Church. It was printed in Philadelphia by the Billmeyer firm who succeeded the Sauer family of printers of Germantown (Philadelphia) as the main printers for the Pennsylvania-German market. The text is accompanied by an appendix whose title translates as "First Milk of Truth, for infants of age and understanding." SHAW & SHOEMAKER 31105 and 31684. ARNDT & ECK 2033 (variant A.).