THE HERMITAGE - ZOAR NOTE-BOOK AND JOURNAL OF TRAVEL de Gunn, Alexander

Paperback / softback. New.

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Hardback. New.

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NY: Np, 1902. #64 of a limited edition printed on hand-made paper. Hardcover. Very good+/No dust jacket. NY: Np, 1902. #64 of a limited edition printed on hand-made paper. 261 pp. Hardcover. 8vo size. Dark red-brown full leather. Top edge gilt. Five raised bands separating six gilt-tooled compartments to spine, gilt-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Extremities lightly bumped and rubbed; spine, edges and endpapers toned. Interior and exterior clean and bright; tight and quite sound. Very good+/No dust jacket. (Oversized - extra shipping charges apply)

DeVinne, 1902. First edition. Limited Edition #214/500. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. A Perfect Copy 261 p. Single volume, illustrated with several plates. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Marbled endpapers; beautiful full brown morocco binding with gilt decorations and lettering and tooling on boards and spine; raised bands.

New York: (Privately Printed, The De Vinne Press), 1902. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Full blue crushed morocco, five raised bands, marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Cortland Bishop front fly, a little rubbing, else an attractive, near fine copy. Copy # 455 of an unspecified limitation printed on handmade paper (reportedly there were 500 copies). An attractive copy of this diary by the Cleveland merchant who became enchanted with the small Ohio community of Zoar and eventually lived, died, and was buried there.

New York: Privately Printed, 1902. First. hardcover. very good(-). 3 plates. (2), 261pp. 8vo, contemporary full brown morocco, page margins uncut, spine lightly worn, board slipcase that is rubbed. New York: Privately Printed by the De Vinne Press, 1902. Limited First Edition.<br/><br/> Alexander Gunn, a Cleveland industrialist, was a part-time resident of the Zoar commune from 1879 to 1901. The Zoar commune was founded in Ohio in 1817 by German immigrants. In excerpts from his note-books, which he wrote from Zoar from 1889 to 1901, he writes of impressions of life there. In 1898, the members of Zoar decided to disband the commune and sell the communal property to its members including Alexander Gunn. Gunn also writes on his travels to England, Italy, Egypt, and the Holy Land. Number 207 of a limited edition on hand-made paper.<br/><br/>

New York: Privately Printed [for William C. Whitney], 1902. First edition. Copy no. 236 of limited edition printed on hand-made paper by the DeVinne Press. Frontispiece portrait of Gunn from a painting by Gottwald, "now hanging in the brewery at Gottwald", and two other mounted plates from photographs. [viii], 261, [1, imprint] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full brown morocco, t.e.g. Fine. First edition. Copy no. 236 of limited edition printed on hand-made paper by the DeVinne Press. Frontispiece portrait of Gunn from a painting by Gottwald, "now hanging in the brewery at Gottwald", and two other mounted plates from photographs. [viii], 261, [1, imprint] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Gunn, a friend of William C. Whitney, McKinley, Mark Hanna, was a wealthy Cleveland businessman who retired to spend the last 20 years of his life in Zoar, the commune in Ohio. The note-books, covering-1901, were discovered after Gunn's death, edited by Don Seitz and published by Wm. Whitney. Wesson, in MIDLAND NOTES, states: "Gunn's notes… Leer más