Search Results: the story of the letters and by skinner hubert m

Chicago: Orville Brewer Publishing Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers have some browning. Spine is browned. Pages have some light foxing. .

Orville Brewer Publishing Co., 1905. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Chicago, Illinois: Orville Brewer Publishing, 1905. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Inscribed by author: "John J. Van Nostrand Jr. from the author. Christmas 1905". Green buckramm cloth. No other markings. Tight binding although front hinge starting. Frontis with tissue guard intact. Mild wear and hand-soiling to cloth else a nice and solid copy of this scarce book.

Chicago: Orville Brewer Publishing Co.. Very Good. No Jacket Nice Gilt Top. Illustrated. Exterior spine and egdes on green cloth are slightly discolored. Hard Cover . Hard Cover. 1905.

Chicago: Orville Brewer Publishing Co, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. 254pp. Green cloth with dark green lettering to the front board, gilt lettering to spine and gilt blocked symbols within red boarders to the front board. Bookplate to paste-down and old price sticker, else a fine tight copy. Illustrated with b/w plates and symbols, with several alphabets pictured at rear. Nice copy.

Chicago, IL: Orville Brewer Publishing Company, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Signed . First edition. SCARCE. Signed by the author's son John N. Skinner, "To my friend Mrs. Armitage May 25 (19)'19". Green textured linen with gilt letters along the front board, title in blue and border in red. Bood+. Spine and edges are evenly sunned. A good+ copy. Top edge gilt. Hubert Skinner (1864-1916) was a noted local historian, antiquarian, and author of "Complete History of Porter County, 1878"; "Readings in Folkore", "The Story of the Britons" etc. This is an unique piece of research into the stories of "Letters and Figures' written in a narrative accessible to scholars and general readers alike, with a focus on Phoenician, Greek and Hebrew sources of letters and figures.