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Descriptive Summary
Title: Collection of Materials by and Relating to the Decorative Designers Firm,
Date (inclusive): 1895-1973
Collection number: 1182
Extent:
25 boxes (12.5 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Emma Redington (Lee) Thayer (ca. 1874-ca. 1973) was the co-founder of Decorative Designers, a New York City based firm that
produced binding designs, dust jackets, book illustrations, and advertising material. She specialized in conventionalized
decorations and designed most of the bindings, did some lettering, and was successful at dust jacket illustrations. She also
published over sixty mystery novels as well as children's books. The collection consists of material related to the work of
Lee Thayer and the Decorative Designers (DD) including correspondence, taped interviews, articles and newsclippings related
to the life and career of Thayer, dust jackets and novels by Thayer, and photocopied bookplate designs, binding designs, and
dust jackets by DD.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Collection of Materials by and Relating to the Decorative Designers Firm (Collection 1182). Department
of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of John J. Espey and Charles B. Gullans, 1975, 1981.
Biography
Decorative Designers (DD) was founded by Henry W. Thayer and Emma Redington Lee, 1895; the New York City based firm produced
binding designs, dust jackets, book illustrations, and advertising material; employed a number of talented people including
Jay Chambers (1902-16) and used innovative operation methods such as dividing labor according to individual talents and presenting
publishers with design models printed on cloth; moved to Chatham, New Jersey (1921); after World War I, they shifted production
to dust jackets and advertisements; the company was dissolved in 1932.
Emma Redington (Lee) Thayer was born ca. 1874; co-founder of Decorative Designers, she specialized in conventionalized decorations
and designed most of the bindings, did some lettering, and was successful at dust jacket illustrations; she wrote a detective
novel (1919) and went on to publish over sixty mystery novels as well as children's books; designed dust jackets for her own
books and for books by other authors and also created bookplates; she invented a method for printing gradations of color on
book bindings by means of a split-ink roller; died ca. 1973.
Biographical Narrative
During the heyday of decorated publishers' bindings no other American designer produced as many book covers as The Decorative
Designers. Founded by Henry W. Thayer, a Brooklyn architect, and Emma Redington Lee, a young mural artist, in 1895, the firm
turned out binding designs, dust jackets, book illustrations and advertising material until 1932 when the company and the
marriage of Thayer and Miss Lee dissolved. Other graphic designers as talented and prolific as the Thayers worked for the
company at various times, the most important being Jay Chambers, who was with The Decorative Designers from 1902 through 1916.
The firm produced thousands of book covers at a rapid rate. The number of artists in the organization partly accounted for
this. Another factor in the success of the “DD's” was its efficient and innovative method of operation. Labor was divided
according to individual talents: Henry Thayer did lettering and handled business affairs, Lee Thayer (as his wife became known)
specialized in conventionalized decorations, Jay Chambers excelled at figure design, and so on. The separation of design and
sales functions increased output, as did the unique practice of presenting publishers with design models printed on cloth
in order to give a clear idea of the appearance of the completed book. Until 1921, when the Thayers moved the business to
Chatham, New Jersey, The Decorative Designers operated in New York City very near the publishing houses that constituted their
market.
When decorated bindings went out of style after World War I, owing to increases in the costs of material and labor and to
the growing popularity of dust jackets, the firm adapted to the new situation by shifting to the production of dust jackets
and advertisements. The pace of production did not slow down until the demise of the company.
Emma Redington (Lee) Thayer (1874-1973) was the artistic workhorse of The Decorative Designers. She designed most of the bindings,
did some of the lettering, and turned easily to dust jacket illustrations when that time came. In 1919 she took up another
career as a sideline. Using the pen name “Lee Thayer,” she wrote a detective novel the main character of which was a sleuth
named Peter Clancy. Lee Thayer published over sixty more mystery novels during the next forty-five years, as well as a handful
of books for children. She designed the dust jackets for her own books and continued to produce them for books by other authors.
She also created bookplates that reveal the same dedication to the style of Art Nouveau as do her bindings and early dust
jackets. Her creative ability had a technical side as well, since she was the inventor of a method for printing gradations
of color on book bindings by means of a split-ink roller.
This collection emphasizes the life and work of Lee Thayer rather heavily. This is due primarily to the fact that she was
still alive when an exhibition of bindings produced by The Decorative Designers was set up in the College Library at UCLA.
The collection, assembled by Professors Charles B. Gullans and John J. Espey of the UCLA Department of English, includes a
great deal of material relating specifically to Mrs. Thayer, much of it dating from the years following her Decorative Designers
period. Some of the items were provided by Mrs. Thayer herself.
Much of the history of The Decorative Designers has had to be constructed from Lee Thayer's memory. In the absence of company
records she has recalled production methods and conditions. She has identified the work of particular employees of the firm
and noted the individual characteristics of each. It is largely owing to her recollections that we know anything in detail
of the studio which produced more American book covers than any other and whose artistic and technical standards remained
always among the very highest.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of material related to the work of Lee Thayer and the Decorative Designers (DD). Includes correspondence
related to Thayer, Charles Gullans and DD, taped interviews with Thayer and Gullans (1970), articles and newsclippings related
to the life and career of Thayer, and dust jackets and novels by Thayer. Also includes photocopied bookplate designs, binding
designs, and dust jackets by DD.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Correspondence (Box 1).
- Oral history (Box 1).
- Articles and newclippings (Box 2).
- Ephemera (Box 2).
- Association material (Box 2).
- Bookplate designs (photocopies of bookplates) (Box 2).
- Binding designs (photocopies of bindings and mock-ups) (Box 2).
- Dust jacket designs (photocopies of dust jackets with one actual dust jacket without book) (Box 2).
- Trade bindings (Boxes 3-17).
- Dust jackets (with books) (Boxes 18-19).
- Novels by Lee Thayer (Boxes 20-23).
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Thayer, Lee, b. 1874--Archives.
Decorative Designers.
Women bookbinders--United States--Archival resources.
Bookbinding--Specimens.
Genres and Forms of Material
Books.
Book jackets.
Box 1, Folders 1-5
Thayer, Lee. Correspondence between Charles Gullans and Lee Thayer. v.p., 13 March 1970-4 September 1973
Physical Description: (49 items, manuscript)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence
re the history of The Decorative Designers and to exhibitions of their bindings held on the Los Angeles and San Diego campuses
of the University of California 1970-1971.
a) 31 letters from Lee Thayer to Charles Gullans. Coronado, California. 18 March 1970-20 August 1973 (Holograph).
b) 14 letters from Charles Gullans to Lee Thayer. [Los Angeles] 13 March 1970-4 September 1973 (Typescript carbon).
c) 1 letter from Lee Thayer to John Espey. Coronado, California. 1 July 1970 (Holograph, photocopy).
d) 3 letters from Elizabeth Nichols to Charles Gullans. Coronado, California. 2 September 1970-14 January 1971 (Holograph).
Box 1, Folder 1
Thayer - Gullans correspondence. 13 March-12 May 1970.
Physical Description: (7 items, 14 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence
re a proposal to exhibit the work of The Decorative Designers in the UCLA College Library.
4 Autograph letters signed from Thayer to Gullans, Coronado, California.
3 Typescript (carbon) letters from Gullans to Thayer, [Los Angeles].
Box 1, Folder 2
Thayer - Gullans correspondence. 21 May-8 August 1970.
Physical Description: (6 items, 11 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence
re the history of The Decorative Designers and to preparations for the exhibition at UCLA.
2 Autograph letters signed from Thayer to Gullans. Coronado, California.
1 Autograph letter signed (photocopy) from Thayer to John Espey. Coronado, California.
3 Typescript (carbon) letters from Gullans to Thayer, [Los Angeles].
Box 1, Folder 3
Thayer - Gullans correspondence. 18 August 1970-25 February 1971.
Physical Description: (16 items, 19 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence
re the exhibitions at UCLA and UCSD.
9 Autograph letters signed from Thayer to Gullans. Coronado, California.
4 Typescript (carbon) letter from Gullans to Thayer. [Los Angeles]
3 Autograph letters signed from Elizabeth Nichols to Gullans. Coronado, California.
Box 1, Folder 4
Thayer - Gullans correspondence. 11 March-22 December 1971.
Physical Description: (11 items, 17 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence
re Thayer's career and personal subjects.
9 Autograph letters signed from Thayer to Gullans. Coronado, California.
2 Typescript (carbon) letters from Gullans to Thayer. [Los Angeles]
Box 1, Folder 5
Thayer - Gullans correspondence. 8 January 1972-4 September 1973.
Physical Description: (9 items, 13 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence relating to personal subjects.
7 Autograph letters signed from Thayer to Gullans. Coronado, California.
2 Typescript (carbon) letters from Gullans to Thayer, [Los Angeles].
Box 1, Folders 6-9
Taped interviews with Lee Thayer conducted by Charles Gullans and John Espey in Coronado, California on 2 May and 21 July 1970.
Scope and Content Note
Remarks
re the history of the Decorative Designers, technical processes involved in printing and stamping bindings, and identification
of individual designers for specific bindings.
Box 1, Folder 6
Interview of Lee Thayer with Charles Gullans, John Espey, Dr. Ira Nichols, and Mrs. Elizabeth Nichols. [Coronado, California],
2 May 1970.
Physical Description: (1 reel [7in.] Tape)
Box 1, Folder 7
Transcript (typed) of 2 May 1970 interview.
Physical Description: (46 leaves)
Box 1, Folder 8
Interview of Lee Thayer with Charles Gullans and John Espey. Coronado, California, 21 July 1970.
Physical Description: (1 reel, 1 side only [7in.] Tape)
Box 1, Folder 9
Transcript (typed) of 21 July 1970 interview.
Physical Description: (31 leaves)
Articles and Newsclippings
Box 2, Folder 1
Thayer, Lee. “For a child's room,”
The mentor (vol.16, no.4, serial no.303), May 1928.
Physical Description: (pp.18-19. 1 item, 2 pieces. Photocopy)
Box 2, Folder 2-6
Newsclippings and photocopies of newsclippings
re the life and career of Lee Thayer. v.p., 1934-1973.
Physical Description: (6 items)
Box 2, Folder 2
Hartford Daily Times (Connecticut), 20 September 1934.
Physical Description: (1 item, 3 pieces. Photocopy)
Box 2, Folder 3
Hartford Courant (Connecticut), 11 October 1936.
Physical Description: (1 item, 11 pieces. Photocopy)
Box 2, Folder 4
Hartford Times (Connecticut), 20 August 1938.
Physical Description: (1 item, 3 pieces. Photocopy)
Box 2, Folder 5
Honolulu Advertiser, 21 April 1947.
Physical Description: (1 item, 1 piece. Photocopy)
Box 2, Folder 6
San Francisco Examiner, 14 March 1972.
Physical Description: (1 piece. Clipped article)
Box 2, Folder 6
Los Angeles Times, 21 November 1973.
Physical Description: (1 piece. Clipped article)
Scope and Content Note
Obituary.
Box 2, Folder 7
Beckley, Zoe. “The mystery of a mystery writer.” n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: (1 item, 2 pieces. Photocopy)
Scope and Content Note
Unpublished mock-up article for a proposed features syndicate.
Box 2, Folder 8
Articles of criticism relating to Lee Thayer's skill as a novelist.
Physical Description: 2 items:
Box 2, Folder 8
Breen, Jon L. “On Lee Thayer,”
The armchair detective (vol.5, no.3), April 1972.
Physical Description: (pp.148-150. 3 pieces. Photocopy)
Box 2, Folder 8
Nevins, Francis M., Jr. “Death inside the cow: a few notes on the novels of Lee Thayer,”
The armchair detective (vol.5, no.3), April 1972.
Physical Description: (pp.151, 155. 2 pieces. Photocopy)
Box 2, Folders 9-10
Material
re dramatic presentations of works by Lee Thayer. v.p., 1930, 1949.
Physical Description: (2 items. Photocopies)
Box 2, Folder 9
Theater program. The Chatham [New Jersey] Community Players present “Set a thief” a crooked comedy by Lee Thayer. Performances
27 February-1 March 1930.
Physical Description: (1 item, 2 pieces. Photocopy)
Box 2, Folder 10
Television schedule. KMIX-TV. Dramatic evening [7 November 1949] Presenting on The children's hour “The adventures of little Annie Strickland” by Lee Thayer. Director: Lee Thayer. n.p.
Physical Description: 1 item, 1 pc. Photocopy.
Box 2, Folder 11
Newsclippings
re the Decorative Designers exhibit at the University of California at San Diego, January-February 1971.
Physical Description: (3 items)
Scope and Content Note
Publicity articles:
Box 2, Folder 11
Coronado Journal (California), 28 January 1971.
Physical Description: (1 pc. Clipped article)
Box 2, Folder 11
San Diego Union, 21 February 1971.
Physical Description: (2 pieces [duplicate copies] Clipped article)
Box 2, Folder 12-15
Printed material from Arthur W. and Edna Rushmore and their Golden Hind Press (Madison, New Jersey). 1946-1971.
Physical Description: (8 items)
Scope and Content Note
Including signed cards and presentation copies of press pamphlets. With other items related to Arthur W. Rushmore.
Box 2, Folder 12
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Cacoethes scribendi. with a wood engraving by Fritz Eichenberg. Madison, New Jersey: The Brayers Club,
1946.
Physical Description: (1 item, 2 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
With printed, hand-colored presentation slip “... from Edna & Arthur for Lee with affection.”
Box 2, Folder 13
Trapp, Jacob.
Meditations. Madison, New Jersey: At the Golden Hind Press, 1954.
Box 2, Folder 14
Christmas greetings from Edna Rushmore to Lee Thayer.
Physical Description: 4 items:
Box 2, Folder 14
Grace before meat. A few favorite blessings. Madison, New Jersey: At the Golden Hind Press, 1959.
Physical Description: (6-page booklet)
Scope and Content Note
Presentation copy.
Box 2, Folder 14
Christmas cards printed by Edna Rushmore at the Golden Hind Press. Madison, New Jersey, 1968-1970.
Physical Description: (3 items, 3 pieces)
Box 2, Folder 15
Memorial items
re Arthur W. Rushmore.
Physical Description: 2 items:
Box 2, Folder 15
Printed invitation to attend the presentation of Arthur W. Rushmore's Washington hand-press to the Library of Farleigh Dickinson
University. Madison, New Jersey, on 29 October 1971.
Physical Description: With cover note from Lee Thayer. Holograph. 4 pieces)
Box 2, Folder 15
Bookplate of the Rushmore Memorial Collection in the Madison [New Jersey] Public Library.
Physical Description: (1 piece)
Box 2, Folder 16
Assorted bookplates designed by Lee Thayer arranged on three sheets. n.p., 1922-1938.
Physical Description: (3 pieces. Photocopy)
Scope and Content Note
13 bookplates, 12 designs.
Box 2, Folder 17-18
Designs for trade bindings produced by the Decorative Designers. n.p., v.d.
Physical Description: (12 items. Photocopies)
Box 2, Folder 17
“Book covers by the Decorative Designers. New York,”
The printing art quarterly (vol.24), February 1915 pp.489-496.
Physical Description: (1 item, 8 pieces. Photocopy)
Scope and Content Note
“Being an eight-page display of half-tone reproductions, in miniature, of a few of the book-cover designs produced by this
organization.” With autograph attributions of individual responsibility for each design added by Lee Thayer.
Note
[Some actual examples of covers depicted in this article may be found in Trade Bindings, (Boxes 3-17)]
Box 2, Folder 18
Mock bindings designed by the Decorative Designers for the Holliston Mills (Norwood, Massachusetts) to advertize the uses
of Holliston book cloths.
Physical Description: (11 items, 15 pieces [4 duplicates] Photocopy)
Box 2, Folder 19
Kagawa, Toyohiko.
The religion of Jesus and Love the law of life. Philadelphia: John C. Winston, n.d.
Physical Description: Dust jacket only. Signed with the Decorative Designers monogram.
Box 2, Folder 20-22
Dust jackets designed by Lee Thayer. n.p., 1927-1944.
Physical Description: (26 items. Photocopies)
Box 2, Folder 20
Dust jacketsfor books in the “Jalna” series by Mazo de la Roche. [All published by Little, Brown], 1927-1944.
Physical Description: (7 items, 7 pieces. Photocopy)
Note
[See also Dust Jackets (Box 19, Item 14)]
Titles:
Box 2, Folder 20
Finch's fortune.
Scope and Content Note
Signed“DD.”
Box 2, Folder 20
--
Jalna.
Scope and Content Note
Signed“DD.”
Box 2, Folder 20
Whiteoak heritage.
Scope and Content Note
Signed “LT '39.”
Box 2, Folder 20
Whiteoaks of Jalna.
Scope and Content Note
Signed “DD.”
Box 2, Folder 20
Young Penny (“Jalna,” 1906).
Scope and Content Note
Signed “LT '35.”
Box 2, Folder 21
Dust jackets for mystery novels by Lee Thayer. n.d.
Physical Description: (6 items, 6 pieces. Photocopy)
Note
[See also Dust Jackets (Boxes 18-19)]
Titles:
Box 2, Folder 21
The darkest spot. Sears.
Scope and Content Note
Signed “DD.”
Box 2, Folder 21
Dead men's shoes. Sears.
Scope and Content Note
Signed “DD.”
Box 2, Folder 21
The last shot. Sears.
Scope and Content Note
Signed “DD.”
Box 2, Folder 21
The sinister mark. Doubleday, Page.
Box 2, Folder 21
They tell no tales. Sears.
Box 2, Folder 22
Dust jackets for books by miscellaneous authors. v.d.
Physical Description: (13 items, 15 pieces. Photocopy)
Note
Titles:
Box 2, Folder 22
Bailey, Carolyn S., ed.
The story-telling hour. Dodd, Mead.
Box 2, Folder 22
Finlayson, Donald Lord.
Michelangelo the man. Crowell.
Scope and Content Note
Signed “LT '35.”
Box 2, Folder 22
Fraser, Chelsea.
The model aircraft builder. Crowell.
Box 2, Folder 22
Freeman, R Austin. The magic casket. Dodd, Mead.
Box 2, Folder 22
Howard, John Tasker.
Stephen Foster, America's troubadour. Crowell.
Scope and Content Note
Signed “LT '33.”
Box 2, Folder 22
McKenna, Stephen.
The oldest god.
Box 2, Folder 22
McSpadden, J. Walker.
Opera synopses. Completely revised. Crowell.
Box 2, Folder 22
Mahan, J. Alexander.
Mariá Theresa of Austria. Crowell.
Box 2, Folder 22
Morris, W.F.
The strange case of Gunner Rawley. Dodd, Mead.
Scope and Content Note
Signed “DD.”
Box 2, Folder 22
Rhode, John.
Murder at Bratton Grange. Dodd, Mead.
Box 2, Folder 22
Schauffler, Robert Haven.
Music weeks and days. Dodd, Mead.
Physical Description: (2 copies)
Scope and Content Note
Signed “LT '33.”
Box 2, Folder 22
Tales from Shakespeare. Nelson.
Physical Description: (2 copies)
Scope and Content Note
Signed “DD.”
Box 2, Folder 22
Truss, Seldon.
Number naught. Dodd, Mead.
Trade Bindings
Scope and Content Note
Boxes 3-17 contain copies of the following books whose decorated bindings were designed by the Decorative Designers. Covers
displaying the company monogram are designated by the term “Signed.” All items lacking this designation are unsigned. Binding
descriptions are impressionistic rather than scientific, being intended only to facilitate comparison with other copies. when
another copy of a listed book is located in the stacks of the University Research Library, that fact is denoted by an asterisk
(*).
Box 3
1) [Anonymous].
The “Goldfish.” Being the confessions of a successful man. New York: Century, 1915.
Physical Description: Deep pink and gold on blue cloth; spine in gold.
Box 3
2) Adams, John Coleman.
Nature studies in Berkshire. With illustrations in photogravure from original photographs by Arthur Scott. New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1899.
Physical Description: Gold on green vertically-ribbed cloth. Newsclipping inserted.
Box 3
3) Austin, Alfred.
A tale of true love and other poems. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1902.
Physical Description: Signed. Pink and gold on light green cloth; spine in gold.
Box 3
4) Bailey, H.C.
Colonel Greatheart. With illustrations by Lester Ralph. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c.1908.
Physical Description: Signed. Red, blue-green and gold on steel gray vertically-ribbed cloth.
Box 3
5) Barnes, James.
For king or country. III. [by F.C. Yohn] New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896.
Physical Description: Red, white and gold on dark blue cloth.
Box 3
6) Barnes, James.
A loyal traitor. III. by A.J. Keller. New York: Harper & Bros., 1897.
Physical Description: Red, white and gold on dark blue cloth with blindstamped fleurs-de-lis.
Box 4
7) Barrie, J. M. The little minister. III. New York: Crowell, c1891 [but issued ca. 1904]
Physical Description: Gloss and matte gold on green cloth.
Box 4
8) Bell,Lillian.
As seen by me. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1900.
Physical Description: Dark blue and gold on gray-blue cloth; spine in gold.
Box 4
9) Benson, E.F.
The capsina. With illustrations by G.P. Jacomb-Hood. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1899.
Physical Description: Light green, dark green and gold on biege cloth. Design extends over front and back covers.
Box 4
10) Benson, E.F.
The vintage. With illustrations [by G.P. Jacomb-Hood]. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1898.
Physical Description: Light green, dark green, brick red and gold on biege cloth. Design extends over front and back covers.
Box 4
11) Brady, Cyrus Townsend.
Hohenzollern. With illustrations by Will Crawford, and decorations by Mills Thompson. New York: Century, 1902.
Physical Description: Signed. White, black and gold on red cloth. Presentation copy from Brady with the dedication retracted.
Scope and Content Note
With: another copy in variant binding (Green, black and maize on red cloth).
Box 5
12) Breasted, James Henry.
A history of Egypt from the earliest times to the Persian conquest. III (2d edition, fully revised). New York: Scribner's, 1912 [1939 printing of 1909 edition].
Physical Description: Signed. Brown and gold on blue cloth; spine in gold. With dust jacket.
Scope and Content Note
Inserted note questions whether this design was done for the 1st (1905) or 2nd (1909) edition.
Box 5
13) Brown, Anna Robeson.
The millionaire's son. III. by Arthur E. Becker. Boston: Dana Estes, 1903.
Physical Description: Signed. Light green, salmon and gold on dark blue cloth.
Box 5
14) Carpenter, Frank G.
The Alps, the Danube and the Near East (“Carpenter's world travels”). Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1924.
Physical Description: Signed. Black, blue and gold on dark gray cloth.
Box 5
15) Carpenter, Frank G.
The Holy Land and Syria (“Carpenter's world travels”). Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1922.
Physical Description: Signed. Deep blue, orange and gold on dark gray cloth.
Box 5
16) Carryl, Guy Wetmore.
Fables for the frivolous. With illustrations by Peter Newell. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1904.
Physical Description: Grass green and gold on wine red cloth.
Box 5
17) Castaigne, André.
Fata morgana. With illustrations by the author. New York: Century, 1904.
Physical Description: Signed. Light green, cream and gold on dark green cloth.
Box 6
18) Charles, Frances.
The awakening of the duchess. III. by I.H. Caliga. Boston: Little, Brown, 1903.
Physical Description: Signed. Gloss and matte gold on green cloth. With dust jacket.
Box 6
19) Converse, Florence.
Long Will. [III. by Garth Jones]. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1903.
Physical Description: Signed, Red violet, blue and gold on green cloth.
Box 6
20) Daskam, Josephine.
Poems. New York: Scribner's, 1903.
Physical Description: Signed Gloss and matte gold on deep red cloth.
Box 6
21) Dehan, Richard.
The sower of the wind. Boston: Little, Brown, 1927.
Physical Description: Signed. Yellow and black on brown cloth. With dust jacket not produced by the Decorative Designers.
Box 6
22) Dole, Nathan Haskell.
Famous composers (2 vol.). New York: Crowell, c1891, 1902.
Physical Description: Gold on deep red cloth.
Box 6
23) Donnell, Annie Hamilton.
Miss Theodosia's heartstrings. With illustrations by William Van Dresser. Boston: Little, Brown, 1916.
Physical Description: Signed. Lavender and purple on pale aqua cloth.
Box 6
24) Egan, Maurice Francis.
The wiles of Sexton Maginnis. With illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. New York: Century, 1909.
Physical Description: Signed. Pale green and gold on dark green cloth.
Box 7
25) Ellis, J. Breckenridge.
The dread and fear of kings. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1900.
Physical Description: Aqua on midnight blue cloth.
Box 7
26) Elsner, Eleanor.
Spanish sunshine. New York and London: Century, c1925.
Physical Description: Signed. Orange and gold on olive green cloth.
Box 7
27) Fernald, Chester Bailey.
Under the jack-staff. New York: Century, 1903.
Physical Description: Signed. Gloss and matte gold on blue-green cloth
Box 7
28) Fox, John Jr.
“Hell fer sartain” and other stories. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1898.
Physical Description: Green and gold on lilac cloth.
Note
(URL has a copy dated 1897 with slight color variation in binding)
Box 7
29) Gautier, Théophile.
Journeys in Italy. Translated by Daniel B. Vermilye. New York: Brentano's, 1902.
Physical Description: Signed. Aqua, blue and gold on rust vertically-ribbed cloth.
Box 7
30) Gilson, Roy Rolfe.
In the morning glow. III. [by Alice Barber Stephens]. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1903.
Physical Description: Pink, pale blue and gold on green cloth with oval inlay.
Box 7
31) Greene, Sarah Pratt McLean.
Deacon Lysander. New York: Baker & Taylor, 1904.
Physical Description: Gray and gloss and matte gold on navy blue cloth.
Box 7
32) Harte, Bret.
New burlesques (Condensed novels, second series). Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1902.
Physical Description: Signed. Gloss and matte gold on green cloth.
Box 7
33) Henley, William Ernest.
Hawthorn and lavender with other verses. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1901.
Physical Description: Signed. Lavender, white and gold on dark green cloth.
Box 8
34) Henry, Arthur.
An island cabin. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1906.
Physical Description: Signed. Gloss and matte gold on brownish gray coarsely-woven cloth.
Box 8
35) Herrick, Robert.
The common lot. New York: Macmillan, 1905.
Physical Description: Signed. Dark green, yellow and gold on pea-green cloth.
Box 8
36) Hervey, Harry.
Where strange gods call. With illustrations by Christopher Murphy. New York and London: Century, c1924.
Physical Description: Signed. Magenta and blue on green cloth. With dust jacket that repeats cover design.
Box 8
37) Holmes, Mary J.
Lena Rivers. New York: New York Book Company, 1910.
Physical Description: Signed. Brown and black on gray cloth.
Box 8
38) Howells, William Dean.
Their silver wedding journey. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1899.
Physical Description: 2 vols. Silver on gray vertically-ribbed cloth.
Box 8
39) Hutten, Baroness von.
Our lady of the beeches. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1902.
Physical Description: Signed. Brown, pale green and gold on gray cloth.
Box 9
40) Jackson, Charles Ross.
The third degree. New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1903.
Physical Description: Signed. Vermillion, yellow, light green and gold on forest green cloth.
Box 9
41) Knapp, Adeline.
The well in the desert. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1908.
Physical Description: Signed. Dark green and brown on tan cloth.
Scope and Content Note
This is a reissue of the Century edition with possible changes in binding colors.
Box 9
42) Knox, George William.
The spirit of the Orient. New York: Crowell, 1906.
Physical Description: Light green and gold on dark green cloth.
Box 9
43) Langstaff, John Brett.
From now to Adam. Peter Tompkins' adventures in the Bible. III. by Luxor Price. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1928.
Physical Description: Signed. Gloss and matte gold on dull green cloth.
Box 9
44) Lee, Jeanette.
Simeon Tetlow's shadow. New York: Century, 1909.
Physical Description: Signed. Pale green, orange and black on light green cloth.
Box 9
45) Le Gallienne, Richard.
The love letters of the king, or, The life romantic. Boston: Little, Brown, 1901.
Physical Description: Gloss and matte gold on dark green cloth.
Box 9
46) Le Gallienne, Richard.
Romances of old France. New York: Baker & Taylor, 1905.
Physical Description: Brown on grayish brown paper over boards with inlay. Cover unsigned, but frontispiece and page decorations throughout are
signed.
Box 10
47) Levett-Yeats, S.
The lord protector. London and Bombay: Longmans, Green, 1902.
Physical Description: Maize, green and gold on wheat cloth.
Box 10
48) Lewis, Alfred Henry.
The story of Paul Jones. Illustrations by Seymour M. Stone and Phillipps Ward. New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1906.
Physical Description: Signed. Dark green and brown on pale chartreuse cloth.
Box 10
49) Lighton, William R.
The ultimate moment. III. by A.I. Keller. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1903.
Physical Description: Signed. Light green and gold on brown cloth.
Box 10
50) Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown.
The warriors. New York: Crowell, 1903.
Physical Description: Signed. White and gloss and matte gold on steel gray vertically-ribbed cloth.
Box 10
51) Little, Francis.
The house of the misty star. New York: Century, 1915.
Physical Description: Signed. Blue, flesh pink and gold on biege cloth.
Box 10
52) Long, John Luther.
Naughty Nan. New York: Century, 1902.
Physical Description: Pale green, light green, violet and gloss and matte gold on dark green cloth; spine in gold.
Box 10
53) Lowell, James Russell.
Vision of Sir Launfal. New York: Crowell, n.d. [ca. 1900].
Physical Description: Burnt green and gold on green suede.
Box 11
54) McElroy, Lucy Cleaver.
Juletty [Illustrations by W.E. Mears]. New York: Crowell, c.1901.
Physical Description: Green and gold on red vertically-ribbed cloth.
Box 11
55) Martin, Edward Sandford.
Poems & verses. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1902.
Physical Description: Signed. Gold on embossed blue cloth.
Box 11
56) Michelson, Miriam.
Anthony Overman. III. by John Cecil Clay. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1906.
Physical Description: White and gold on dark green cloth.
Box 11
57) Mitchell, S. Weir.
The autobiography of a quack and The case of George Dedlow. III. by A.J. Keller. New York: Century, 1900.
Physical Description: Gloss and matte gold on blue-green cloth.
Box 11
58) Mitchell, S. Weir.
Constance Trescot. New York: Century, 1905.
Physical Description: Signed. Gold on blue cloth.
Box 11
59) Mitchell, S. Weir.
Dr. North and his friends. New York: Century, 1901.
Physical Description: Gloss and matte gold on forest green cloth.
Box 11
60) Molineux, Roland Burnham.
The room with the little door. New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1903.
Physical Description: Signed. White, black and gold on blue-gray cloth.
Box 11
61) Morris, Gouverneur.
Ellen and Mr. Man. New York: Century, 1904.
Physical Description: White and gold on cornflower blue cloth.
Box 11
62) Morris, Lewis.
The epic of Hades. New York and Boston: Crowell, n.d.
Physical Description: Signed. Gloss and matte gold on wine red vertically-ribbed cloth. With dust jacket.
Box 12
63) O'Brian, Seumas.
The whale and the grasshopper and other fables. With a frontispiece by Robert McCaig. Boston: Little, Brown, 1916.
Physical Description: Signed. Aquamarine and dark blue on olive green cloth; gold lettering on spine.
Box 12
64) O'Higgins, Harvey J.
A grand army man. With illustrations by Martin Justice. New York: Century, 1908.
Physical Description: Signed. Orange, white and gold on blue cloth.
Box 12
65) Overton, Gwendolen.
The heritage of unrest. New York: Macmillan, 1905 [c.1901].
Physical Description: Signed. Wine red and dark green on gray paper.
Scope and Content Note
[This is special edition in paper covers] “Macmillan's paper novels.”
Box 12
66) Page, Thomas Nelson.
On Newfound River. New York: Scribner's, 1906.
Physical Description: Signed. Gold on navy blue cloth.
Box 12
67) Paine, Ralph D.
The praying skipper and other stories. New York: Outing, 1906.
Physical Description: Signed. White, sea green, brown and gold on light blue cloth.
Box 12
68) Parker, Gilbert.
Donovan Pasha and some people of Egypt. New York: Appleton, 1902.
Physical Description: Signed. Gold on dark blue cloth.
Box 12
69) Parrish, Randall.
Beth Norvell. With frontispiece by N.C. Wyeth. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1907.
Physical Description: Signed. Maize, sea green and black on biege coarsely woven cloth.
Box 13
70) Pattee, Fred Lewis.
Mary Garvin. [III. by W.E. Mears]. New York: Crowell, 1902.
Physical Description: Sea green and gold on blue-green vertically-ribbed cloth.
Box 13
71) Penfield, Frederic Courtland.
East of Suez. Ceylon, India. China and Japan. New York: Century, 1907.
Physical Description: Signed. White and gloss and matte gold on red cloth.
Box 13
72) Penn Publishing Company. Philadelphia, ca. 1895-.
Physical Description: Seven paperback school texts with signed, two-tone covers. Copyright dates are no indication of the date of design.
Scope and Content Note
Titles:
Classic dialogues and dramas.
Exelsior dialogues.
Little people's dialogues.
Little people's speaker.
Primary recitations.
Schoolday dialogues.
Young people's speaker.
Box 13
73) Pidgin, Charles Felton.
The letter H. III. by Ch. Weber Ditzler. New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1904.
Physical Description: Signed. Red, light green and gold on dark green cloth.
Box 13
74) Pittenger, William.
The debater's treasury. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1923, c.1891.
Physical Description: Signed. Blue on pale green paper.
Box 13
75) Potter, Margaret Horton.
The castle of twilight. III. by Ch. Weber. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1903.
Physical Description: Signed. Grayish blue shading to yellowish gray and gold on midnight blue cloth.
Box 14
76) Reed, Myrtle.
Old rose and silver. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, c.1909.
Physical Description: Signed. Cream and silver on bluish gray paper onlay over cloth.
Scope and Content Note
Reissue with paper onlay cover of the novel originally issued by Putnam in 1909 with a cover by Margaret Armstrong.
Box 14
77) Reid, Mayne.
The rifle rangers, or, Adventures in south Mexico. New York: New York Book Company, 1909.
Physical Description: Signed. Brown and black on bluish gray cloth.
Note
[Same pattern as on Box 8, item 37]
Box 14
78) Sangster, Margaret E.
Eastover parish. New York: Fleming H. Revell, c.1912.
Physical Description: Signed. Brick red and cream on grayish green cloth.
Box 14
79) Service, Robert W.
The spell of the Yukon and other verses. New York: Barse & Hopkins, c.1907.
Physical Description: Signed. White, black, gray and gold on gray cloth.
Box 14
80) Shaw, Flora L.
Castle Blair. With illustrations by George Varian. Boston: Little, Brown, 1924.
Physical Description: Signed. Red, yellow and dark green on aqua cloth.
Scope and Content Note
With dust jacket reproducing Varian's frontispiece.
Box 14
81) Stanley, Caroline Abbot.
Dr. Llewellyn and his friends. New York: Fleming H. Revell, c.1914.
Physical Description: Dark green and white on olive green cloth.
Box 14
82) Stanley, Caroline Abbot.
The master of “The Oaks”. New York: Fleming H. Revell, c.1912.
Physical Description: Signed, Dark green and greenish white on olive green cloth.
Box 15
83) Stanley, Caroline Abbot.
Order no.11. With illustrations by Harry C. Edwards. New York: Century, 1904.
Physical Description: Signed. Brown, yellow, light green and cream on navy blue cloth.
Box 15
84) Stocking, Charles Francis.
The diary of Jean Evarts. Chicago: Maestro, 1921.
Physical Description: Gold on blue, blindstamped vertically-ribbed cloth.
Box 15
85) Stratton-Porter, Gene.
The fire bird. Illustrations by Gordon Grant; decorations by Lee Thayer. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1922.
Physical Description: Orange, brown, dark green, gray-green and white on tan paper over boards. With dust jacket that repeats cover design. 10
text pages, title page and endpapers are decorated.
Box 15
86) Stuart, Ruth McEnery.
Aunt Amity's silver wedding and other stories. III [by A.B. Frost]. New York: Century, 1909.
Physical Description: Signed. Grass green and gold on forest green cloth.
Box 15
87) Stuart, Ruth McEnery.
George Washington Jones. A Christmas gift that went a-begging. With pictures by Edward Potthast. Philadelphia: Altemus, c.1903.
Physical Description: Blue-gray and white on dark blue cloth.
Box 15
88) Stuart, Ruth McEnery.
In Simpkinsville. Illustrations by Smedley, Carleton, and McNair. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897.
Physical Description: Light green, greenish white and gold on greenish tan cloth.
Box 15
89) Stuart, Ruth McEnery.
Napoleon Jackson, the gentleman of the plush rocker. With pictures by Edward Potthast. New York: Century, 1904.
Physical Description: Signed. Light green and gold on burgundy cloth.
Scope and Content Note
With dust jacket carrying design different from cover.
Box 15
90) Stuart, Ruth McEnery.
Solomon Crow's Christmas packets and other tales. III [by A.B. Frost]. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897.
Physical Description: Green, black and gold on biege cloth.
Box 15
91) Stuart, Ruth McEnery.
Sonny, a Christmas guest. With illustrations by Fanny Y. Cory. New York: Century, 1904.
Physical Description: Signed. Light green, greenish white and gold on dark green cloth.
Box 16
92) Thayer, Lee.
Set a thief. New York: Sears, c.1931.
Physical Description: Signed. Aqua and black on blue cloth.
Box 16
93) Tracy, Louis.
The wheel o' fortune. Illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg. New York: Edward J. Clode, c1907.
Physical Description: Yellowish green, aqua and gold on blue-green cloth.
Box 16
94) Vandercook, Margaret.
The loves of Ambrose. III. by Gordon Grant. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1914.
Physical Description: Signed. Burnt orange, black and white on green cloth.
Scope and Content Note
Presentation copy.
Box 16
95) Van Dyne, Edith.
Aunt Jane's nieces. Chicago: Reilly & Britton. c1906.
Physical Description: Signed. Purple and dark green on straw cloth, with oval inlay.
Note
Design also used for later editions in this series of novels for girls.
Box 16
96) Wallace, Lew.
The chariot-race from Ben-Hur. III. by Sigismond Ivanowski. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907.
Physical Description: Cream, gray and gloss and matte gold on purple cloth.
Box 16
97) Watanna, Onoto.
The heart of Hyacinth. Decorations by Kiyokichi Sano. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1903.
Physical Description: Signed. Grass green, dark green, white and gold on lavender cloth.
Scope and Content Note
With: another copy.
Box 17
98) Whiteing, Richard.
The yellow van. New York: Century, 1903.
Physical Description: Signed. Maize, black and gloss and matte gold on light brown cloth.
Box 17
99) Williamson, C.N. & A.M.
The port of adventure. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1913.
Physical Description: Yellow, aquamarine, mottled blue and gold on dark blue cloth.
Scope and Content Note
Endpapers signed “Arthur Covey (with the company monogram following).”
Box 17
100)
Famous American actors of today (vol.2). Edited by Frederic Edward McKay and Charles E.L. Wingate. New York: Crowell, c1896.
Physical Description: Gloss and matte gold on aqua cloth [“by C.E.L. Wingate” on cover].
Box 17
101) Young, Filson.
The sands of pleasure. Boston: Dana Estes, c.1905.
Physical Description: Signed. Blue, orange and gold on dark olive green cloth.
Dust Jackets
Note
(See also Dust Jacket Designs, Box 2)
Scope and Content Note
Boxes 18 and 19 contain copies of books with dust jackets designed by Lee Thayer. All but one of the books in this section
are Mrs. Thayer's own mystery novels. They are listed by title.
Box 18
1)
Accessory after the fact. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1943.
Physical Description: With dust jacket signed “LT '43.”
Box 18
2)
Accident, manslaughter, or murder? New York: Dodd, Mead, 1945.
Physical Description: With dust jacket and endpapers signed “LT '45.”
Box 18
1)
Alias Dr. Ely. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, c.1927.
Physical Description: With dust jacket signed with the Decorative Designers' monogram.
Box 18
4)
Dead reckoning. New York: Dodd, Mead, c.1954.
Physical Description: With dust jacket signed “LT '54.”
Physical Description: With: another copy.
Box 18
5)
Five bullets. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1944.
Physical Description: With dust jacket signed “LT '44” glued to endpapers.
Box 18
6)
Guilt is where you find it. New York: Dodd, Mead, c.1957.
Physical Description: With dust jacket signed “LT '56.”
Physical Description: With: another copy.
Box 19
7)
A hair's breadth. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1946.
Physical Description: With dust jacket signed “LT '45.”
Box 19
8)
Hanging's too good. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1943.
Physical Description: With dust jacket signed “LT '43” glued to endpapers, in plastic wrapper.
Box 19
9)
The jaws of death. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1946.
Physical Description: With dust jacket signed “LT '46.”
Box 19
10)
The prisoner pleads 'Not guilty'. New York: Dodd, Mead, c.1953.
Physical Description: With dust jacket signed “LT” in plastic wrapper.
Box 19
11)
Still no answer. New York: Dodd, Mead, c.1958.
Physical Description: With dust jacket signed “LT '57.” Presentation copy to Alice and John [Espey].
Box 19
12)
Who benefits? New York: Dodd, Mead, c1955.
Physical Description: With dust jacket signed “LT '55.”
Box 19
13)
Within the vault. New York: Dodd, Mead, c1950.
Physical Description: With dust jacket signed “LT '50.”
Box 19
14) De la Roche, Mazo.
Return to Jalna. Boston: Little, Brown, 1946.
Physical Description: With dust jacket signed “LT '46.”
Note
(See also Dust Jacket Designs, Box 2, folder 20)
Novels by Lee Thayer
Scope and Content Note
Mystery novels written by Lee Thayer and published 1921-1966, some with decoration by Thayer or derived from the work of the
Decorative Designers; one children's book written by Thayer under a pen name.
Box 20
1) And one cried murder. New York: Dodd, Mead, c1961.
Scope and Content Note
With: another copy.
Box 20
2)
Blood on the knight. New York: Dodd, Mead, c1952.
Box 20
3)
The darkest spot. New York: A.L. Burt, c.1928.
Physical Description: Unsigned cover design based on the dust jacket design, signed “DD,” used for the Sears edition.
Scope and Content Note
Reprint of J.H. Sears edition.
Note
[See Dust Jacket Designs (Box 2, folder 21)]
Box 20
4)
Dead end street. No outlet. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1936.
Box 20
5)
Dead men's shoes. New York: J.H. Sears, c.1929.
Physical Description: Title page design, signed “DD,” repeats dust jacket design.
Note
[See Dust Jacket Designs (Box 2, folder 21)]
Box 20
6)
Dead on arrival. New York: Dodd, Mead, c1960.
Physical Description: With dust jacket not by Lee Thayer, unsigned.
Scope and Content Note
Presentation copy to Alice and John Espey.
Box 21
7)
Dead storage. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1935.
Box 21
8)
Dusty death. New York: Dodd, Mead, c1966.
Physical Description: With dust jacket not by Lee Thayer, unsigned.
Box 21
9)
Evil root. New York: Dodd, Mead, c1949.
Box 21
10)
Guilt edged. New York: Dodd, Mead, c1951.
Box 21
11)
Hell-gate tides. New York: Sears, c1933.
Physical Description: With dust jacket, unsigned, possibly by Lee Thayer.
Box 21
12)
Lightning strikes twice. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1939.
Box 21
13)
A man's enemies. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1937.
Box 22
14)
Murder is out. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1942.
Box 22
15)
Murder on location. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1942.
Physical Description: Design on endpapers signed “LT '42.”
Box 22
16)
No holiday for death. New York: Dodd, Mead, c1954.
Physical Description: With dust jacket, unsigned.
Scope and Content Note
Presentation copy to Alice and John Espey.
Box 22
17)
Persons unknown. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1941.
Box 22
18)
A plain case of murder. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1944.
Physical Description: Endpaper design unsigned, probably by Lee Thayer.
Box 22
19)
Poison. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1926.
Physical Description: Cover design unsigned.
Box 23
20)
Q.E.D. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1922.
Physical Description: “Frontispiece by the author.”
Box 23
21)
Ransom racket. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1938.
Box 23
22)
Stark murder. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1939.
Box 23
23)
That affair at 'The Cedars'. Garden City, New York and Toronto: Doubleday, Page, 1921.
Physical Description: Frontispiece by Clarence Rowe.
Box 23
24)
That strange Sylvester affair. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1938.
Box 23
25)
Too long endured. New York: Dodd, Mead, c1950.
Box 23
26)
Two ways to die. New York: Dodd, Mead, c1959.
Box 23
27) Carroll, Alice Lee [i.e., Emma Redington (Lee) Thayer]
The Capper cousins at the fair. III. by Phyllis Britcher. New York: Sears, c1930.
Box 23
28)
Doctor S.O.S. New York: A.L. Burt Company [c1925].
Note
Published by arrangement with Doubleday, Page and Company.
Box 24
29) Madison, Janet.
Sweethearts always. Poems of love. Selected by Janet Madison. Illustrated by Putnam Hall. Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1906.
Physical Description: Light green, yellow, and gold on dark green.
Scope and Content Note
Dummy.
Note
[Addition, 21 May 1979]
Box 24
30) Tarkington, Booth.
Cherry. London: Harper, 1903.
Physical Description: Yellowish white and gold on red.
Note
[Addition, 21 May 1979]
Box 24
31) Tomlinson, Everett T.
The Campfire of Mad Anthony. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1907.
Physical Description: Light bluish green, orangish yellow, and reddish brown on dark blue.
Note
[Addition, 21 May 1979]
Box 24
32) Cover design [for]
The Century Magazine (vol.74, no.1), May 1907.
Note
[Addition, 21 May 1979]
Box 24
33) Aldrich, Thomas Bailey.
Friar Jerome's beautiful book. [Boston and New York, Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin and Company. The Riverside Press, 1896].
Physical Description: Tan and dark brown binding with grey dustjacket and green ties. Decorations by W.S. Hadaway.
Note
[Addition, 21 May 1979]
Box 24
34) Aldrich, Thomas Bailey.
Friar Jerome's beautiful book. [Boston and New York, Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, 1896].
Physical Description: Red and gold binding. Lacking ties. Large paper edition.
Scope and Content Note
no.97 of 250 copies.
Note
[Addition, 21 May 1979]
Box 24
35) Kellogg, Alice M. New Year and midwinter exercises. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1907 (c1895).
Physical Description: Signed with the DD monogram.
Box 24
36) Kellogg, Amos M. Practical declamations. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1925 (c1903).
Physical Description: Signed.
Note
[Addition, 21 December 1981]
Box 24
37) Kellogg, Amos M. Practical dialogues. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1927 (c1903, c1908).
Physical Description: Unsigned.
Note
[Addition, 21 December 1981]
Box 24
38) Griffith, B.L.C. School and parlor comedies. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1927.
Physical Description: Signed.
Note
[Addition, 21 December 1981]
Box 24
39) Kellogg, Amos M. Practical recitations. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1925 9c1903).
Physical Description: Signed.
Note
[Addition, 21 December 1981]
Box 24
40) Shoemaker, Mrs. J.W.
Classic dialogues and dramas. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1923 (c.1916).
Note
[Addition, 21 December 1981]
Box 24
41) Kellogg, Amos M.
Primary speaker. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1924 (c.1903).
Note
[Addition, 21 December 1981]
Box 24
42) O'Higgins, Harvey J.
Don-a-dreams. New York: The Century Company, 1906.
Note
[Addition, December 1984]
Box 25
43) Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
Our Old Home, with an introduction by Katherine Lee Bates. New York: T.Y. Crowell, 1906.
Physical Description: Designed by Lee Thayer.
Note
[Addition, December 1984]
Box 25
44) Bennett, Arnold.
From the Log of the Velsa. New York: The Century Company, 1914.
Note
[Addition, December 1984]
Box 25
45) Wright, Mabel (Osgood), 1859-1934.
The Garden of a Commuter's Wife. New York/London: Macmillan, 1905.
Physical Description: (354pp. Paperback. Signed Decorative Designers cover)
Note
[Addition, December 1984]