The American Family: An Album of a Self-Reliant People

Kingsport, Tennessee: Privately Printed by Kingsport Press, Inc., 1963 One of 1,250 copies. Light brown cloth over paste-paper boards, gilt spine. Octavo. Designed by Stefan Salter, with illustrations by Fritz Kredel. Fine in torn acetate dust jacket, in fine slipcase. In the pages that follow are a description of a house raising, tilling the soil, a corn husking, threshing and household chores, the place of the hired girl, courtship and marriage, religion and holidays--a fair sampling of the moments that gave to the American family its special splendor.