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My
friend Ellie's aunt's book
My
friend Ellie is a hand book binder and rare book
repairer. She
moved
her business, Strong Bindery, into the new Loganberry
Books building
when
we moved in the summer of 2003. Her aunt is an
historian who
wrote
this interesting book about the first ambassador sent to
the young
United
States.
From the foreword: "As the American Revolution progressed, France pondered the chances for successful intervention, and for preempting a share of the rich colonial trade monopolized by England. Even after the Declaration of Independence, many uncertainties remained. How long could independence survive Tory dissidence and Quaker pacifism? Was victory militarily possible? The Battle of Saratoga, won in October, 1777, partly with the aid of French muskets covertly supplied, encouraged France to move towards overt aid. A treaty of commerce, long solicited by three American agents in Paris, was concluded, likewise a secret treaty of alliance in the event of war with England. The communication of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce was construed by England as a hostile act, whereupon the negotiator, Conrad-Alexandre Gerard, was sent to Philadelphia to deter any attempt on the part of congress to default from the alliance. Gerard thus became the first diplomatic representative of a foreign power accredited to the United States."
Hudson, Ruth
Strong
The Minister From France:
Conrad-Alexandre
Gerard 1729-1790. Euclid, Ohio:
Lutz Printing,
1994.
Hand-bound by Strong Bindery in burgundy cloth with
gilt-on-black
paste-on
spine labels. 15 illustrations. Limited
print run of
250 copies. As new, $40
My father
Do
you know what a die marriage is? You're not a real
coin collector
unless you do. It's not just the date that counts, but
the mint,
and the dies used in the striking of the coin. Sounds
impossible
to recognize such a difference? Well, that's what the
book is all
about! Each dated coin is supposed to look alike, but
in the
early
days of the Mint, many different individually made dies were
used since
they often broke or wore out. The minute cracks,
blurps and
smears
created by this use are what distinguishes each die, in
addition to the
exact positioning of the stars around the edges and things
like
that.
A die marriage is the combination of obverse and reverse
dies, which
were
not always sequential. My father and his friends had
to not only
recognize and discover many of these different variations,
but also had
to develop a language and system for identification and
communication
amongst
collectors.
The first book deals with Bust dimes, the small versions
of the popular
collectible Bust half dollars. Fifteen years
following that
landmark
book, two of the original authors published a similar book
for the even
smaller half dimes. (Sure, we call them nickels now,
but there
was
no reason for such a name when they were made out of
silver.
Besides,
they really were smaller than dimes. Thus the family
joke about
the
itty bitty busties.) Included in this second volume
is also an
exhaustive
study of the United States Mint in its early days: how it
operated,
what
materials were used, and how the coins were actually made.
Voted BEST NUMISMATIC
PUBLICATION OF
THE YEAR,
1999 by
the Numismatic
Literary
Guild.
Check out what
the
coin specialists say about Logan & McCloskey's
book.
Check out the John
Reich Collectors Society which
published the books
and
furthers the studies of these coins.
Logan, Russell
J.
Davis, David J., Russell
J. Logan, Allen Lovejoy,
John W. McCloskey
and William P. Subjack. Early
United
States Dimes: 1796-1837. John
Reich Collectors Society, 1985. out of print,
fine/fine,
$150
Logan, Russell J.
and John W. McCloskey. Federal
Half
Dimes:
1792-1837.
John
Reich Collectors Society, 1999. out of print,
fine, $150
Dede, the rug lady
Dede
and I opened shop together in 1994, sharing space with books
and
oriental
rugs. Dede retired in 2001, and Loganberry moved into
its own
building
in 2003, but I still see her quite often (and she's still
peddling
rugs!).
In one of her past lives however, she was a dietitian and a
member of
the
Junior Women's Committee of the Cleveland Orchestra.
The summer
home
of the Cleveland Orchestra is the fabulous Blossom Music
Center, the
most
perfect place for picnic dinners, and thus the focus of the
first
fundraising
cookbook. The Committee has produced three fundraising
cookbooks
to date, and Dede was the editor of the first two. Of
particular
pride is her guidance to Reed Thomason to create such
wonderful cover
art.
Klaus, Damaris
D.,
ed. (a.k.a.
Dede Moore)
Bach's Lunch: Picnic and Patio
Classics.
Junior Women's Committee, 1971.
Bach for More: Fireside
Classics.
Junior Women's Committee, 1974.
Honorary Book Club Dad
Dede's
son-in law has a successful engineering text book now in
its third
edition.
He has a couple related texts too, but this is the major
one. The
car on the cover? One of Giorgio's specialties is
designing and
racing
electric cars. That's one way to get the students to
pay
attention!
In October 2004, Giorgio's student team broke the
land-speed record
with
their electric race car.
Rizzoni, Giorgio
Principles and Applications of
Electrical
Engineering.
McGraw Hill
College
Division, Third edition, 2000.
