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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

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My father
Dad's DimesDo 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.

itty bitty busties
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.

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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. 


6/6/07
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