A Passing America: Considerations of Things of Yesterday Fast Fading from Our World.
1932 · New York
by Wygrandt, Cornelius.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1932. Octavo, green cloth, (hardcover), blue spinal labels, gilt letters, xxi, 330 pp. Very Good, with darkened spine and speckling to page edges. Illus. with b & w plates. Contents: Covered Bridges -- Katydids and Tree-Toads; Quills and Quillwork; The Old Gray Hen -- Supper, Country Presses; Of Coach Dogs, Germantown Wagons and Meeting House Sheds -- The Catherine Pear, Feather Beds; Oleander, Jasmine and Daphne -- Bonnets and Broadbrims; Flatirons, Fishbones and Thank-You-Ma’ams; The Doom of the Chestnut Tree -- Boots, Gypsy Vans; Buckwheat, Indoors and Out -- Of Mauls and Gumwood, Venetian Blinds; Purple Parties -- Log Cabins, Greek; Cedar Incorruptible -- Oxen, Brandied Peaches; Index. (Inventory #: 00325s)